I revere the memory of Mr F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and itcame likemagic ina pint bottleit was not ecstasy but it was comfort.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^7  Flora Finching. Little Dorrit, bk.1, ch.24.

Le poireau, c'est l'asperge du pauvre. The leek is the asparagus of the poor.

-Thibault
  Crainquebille.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

-Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro
The Chronicles of Clovis,'The Match-Maker'.

Keep bees and grow asparagus, watch the tides and listen to the wind instead of the politicians make up your own stories and believe them if you want to live the good life.

-Waddington, Miriam
  Driving Home: Poems New and Selected,'Advice to the Young'.