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the very best plans were made like an onion, with layer upon layer protecting the heart. — S.J.A. Turney

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another. — Juliette Binoche

Life is an onion - you peel it year by year and sometimes cry. — Carl Sandburg

Writers are like onions, layers upon layers upon layers. — Luke Taylor

When one peels back an onion, all they have done is reveal a smaller onion. — Elizabeth James

Yes, life has many onions. — Skip Coryell

I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over 'The Onion' or 'Calvin and Hobbes.' That was considered completely normal. — Simon Rich

All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself. — Howard Carter

Life peels us like an onion and every layer is softer and sweeter. — Kristen Heitzmann

Lying on a ring of onion, a tomato slice exposed its seedy smile, one she remembers to this moment. — Toni Morrison

Our identity is like that of an onion; with each experience we endure, a layer is peeled away, finally revealing who we really are at the core. — Afnan Ahmad Mia

I like salty, creamy foods. I could sit down with a bag of chips and French onion dip and go to town! That would be on my last-supper list. — Christina Hendricks

The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind. — Ambrose Bierce

Just drop some onion and garlic in olive oil, and your day improves exponentially. — Jen Hatmaker

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it. — James Huneker

Red onion skins and New Year's Eve have much in common - they both peel away to reveal new vibrancy. — Alex Morritt

Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry. — Derrick Jensen

Calvin: Why are you crying mom?
Mom: I'm cutting up an onion.
Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables. — Bill Watterson

For a rub with sweet tang: mix just a little bit of light brown sugar to garlic pepper, black pepper, and onion powder. — Johnny Trigg

If you cross an onion with a UFO, what you get is a flying saucer that brings tears to your eyes. — Terence McKenna

Its an onion tree. Every time Sam takes off an onion, two more will grow in its place. — Gail Bowen

If the boy have not a woman's gift To rain a shower of commanded tears, An onion will do well for such a shift. — William Shakespeare

If you like comedy, go home and curl up with Leviticus. The writers of The Onion are handed Leviticus on their first day. — Nick Offerman

Why are you crying, Marie?
I didn't know.
I honestly had no idea.
Feelings? Whoremones? Maybe a nearby, but as of yet unseen onion? — Penny Reid

I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it - after all, they've already given us tasteless bread. — Robert Orben

Dany nibbled at an onion and reflected ruefully on the faithlessness of men. — George R R Martin

What if I am? It seems to me that most men are grey." "If half of an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. — George R R Martin

Man is like an onion. His potential is exposed one layer at a time until all he is, is known by all. — Myles Munroe

The laws of physics could be like an onion, with new laws becoming operational as we probe new scales. We simply don't know! — Richard Feynman

If you are clinically insane, by which I mean you wake up in the morning, and you think you are an onion, this is your car, (about the BMW X3). — Jeremy Clarkson

I see you have Sgiach placed in the middle," Thanatos said.
"Yeah, along with onion rings, Hostess Ding Dongs, and my name," Aphrodite said. — Kristin Cast

Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins. — Johnny Rich

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice. — Joseph Wambaugh

Her face may be as smooth as an onion; but the beauty of a woman is in the spirit she possesses and in the principles of righteousness she cherishes. — Heber C. Kimball

Before Julia Child there was only onion dip. — Susan Branch

A rose by any other name
Would never, never smell the same
And cunning is the nose that knows
An onion that's been called a rose. — Wendell Johnson

The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw. — Adam Johnson

My own remedy is always to eat, just before I step into bed, a hot roasted onion, if I have a cold. — George Washington

If you ask one question, it will lead you to another, and another. It's like peeling an onion. — Lemony Snicket

looking for the pi in my onion — Natasha Tsakos

The onion is the truffle of the poor. — Robert J. Courtine

Good-will never added an onion to the soup, and is good for nothing but a passport to paradise. — Victor Hugo

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time. — Erma Bombeck

A woman always has half an onion left over, no matter what size of the onion, the dish or the woman — Terry Pratchett

It's funny. I don't like onions but I like onion rings. What's up with that? — Jared Leto

Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center. — Richard Eder

This case is complex. It's got layers to it, Davey. It's a fucking onion ... You're a natural-born onion peeler
the best that ever was. — John Verdon

Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet. — Sonya Levien

I may be wicked, but still I gave an onion — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To understand a woman, a man had to peel away layer after layer of words, much as one must peel away an onion to get at the desired part. — Tamar Myers

I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table. — Miguel De Cervantes

People magazine with a bag of sour cream and onion chips always makes be feel a bit trashy. But good trashy. — Danielle LaPorte

Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight. — Karl Pilkington

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Truth has as many coats as an onion ... and each one of them hollow when you peel it off. — Helen Waddell

Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. — Carl Sandburg

Harriet: How do you practice being an onion? — Louise Fitzhugh

I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split. — Raymond Chandler

The demon is crouched in the corner, between the Cheetos and the onion dip. It's — Rachel A. Marks

Everything is relative' said the cosmic onion. 'Well, you're no relative of mine', said Dougal, huffily. - The Magic Roundabout — Linda Watson

Take care to chop the onion fine. — Laura Esquivel

If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out. — Allan Savory

The papers are portraying Rafa as a parrot, just like they did when they showed Graham Taylor as an onion — Bobby Gould

Like handling an onion, peeling off the "husk" of our lives, sometimes makes us cry. — Nina Guilbeau

New rule: Tulips aren't flowers. They're some kind of gay onion. — Bill Maher

We have garlic days, and onion days. You know what they're cooking. — Leslie White

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. — Will Rogers

I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls! — Fanny Brice

The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore. — Joseph Wambaugh

It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while. — Arthur Golden

He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers. — Ray Bradbury

The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself. — George Ellwanger

Now I knew how women felt when they thought they were going to get a diamond ring and ended up with an onion ring — Jordan Castillo Price

Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad. — Terry Pratchett

This was too much. I refuse. I absolutely REFUSE to be an onion. — Louise Fitzhugh

Yes, world history is indeed such an onion! — Jared Diamond

Whatever you is, Onion," he said, "be it full. — James McBride

1 cup thawed onion stir fry and frozen bell pepper ½ lb — Stacey Turner

His breath is so bad why every time he smokes he blows onion rings. — Rodney Dangerfield

Indeed, you become what you eat. In which case I am an onion. Layered, slightly sour and guaranteed to bring tears to the eyes. — Tobsha Learner

Let first the onion flourish there,
Rose among roots, the maiden-fair,
Wine-scented and poetic soul
Of the capacious salad bowl. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Behind every face lies a mask. Behind it lies another onion layer of mask. If you peel the skins, you may cry. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy. — Padma Lakshmi

The smell coming off my flesh had gone from simple stinkiness to something weird and almost appetizing, close to sour-cream-and-onion potato chips. — Eliot Schrefer

I've learned that ayahuasca works in levels, a little like peeling an onion. It is complex and something you really have to experience to understand. — Zoe Helene

Your heart keeps jumping like a kangaroo, floating like an onion in a bowl of stew. — Fabian

Bert's wallet is like an onion. Any time he opens it, he starts crying. — Brendan Morrison

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. — George R R Martin

It is the onion, memory, that makes me cry, he said. — Alexander McCall Smith