Lettuce is like conversation: it must be fresh and crisp, and so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Charles Dudley Warner, (Sep 12 1829-1900), US newspaperman, author, editor, publisher; He is credited with making the statement Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.