I should like to know if that answer applies similarly to beans, peas, parsnips, and other crops?
Expressions of sympathy are ample and plentiful, but kind words butter no parsnips and promises of surveys feed no lambs.
Those are fine words, but as has been said already, fine words butter no parsnips.
There is an old and somewhat odd saying to the effect that soft words butter no parsnips.
So, it looks as if popularity butters the parsnips of management theory, and that popularity does not hinge on a robust evidence base.
There is an age-long saying in this country, hallowed by experience and proved by experience, that kind words butter no parsnips.
Up till now it has been possible to find substitutes, like turnips, parsnips, swedes and similar vegetables.
There are only so many parsnips that one can know and love at any one time.
