“Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.”
- Buddha
“No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
“Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.”
-William Hazlitt
“A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.”
-Helen Rowland
“Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.”
-Oliver Goldsmith
“Business is the salt of life.”
-Voltaire
“Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.”
-Mickey Spillane
“At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.”
-Donald T. Regan
“Of course I have used dissonance in my time, but there has been too much dissonance. Bach used dissonance as good salt for his music. Others applied pepper, seasoned the dishes more and more highly, till all healthy appetites were sick and until the music was nothing but pepper.”
-Sergei Prokofiev
“Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
-Stephen King
“Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.”
- Henry S. Haskins
“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
- Isak Dinesen
“Take it with a grin of salt.”
- Yogi Berra
“A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.”
- John Berger
“Let there be such oneness between us, that when one cries, the other tastes salt.”
- anonymous
“A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.”
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“We have some salt of our youth in us.”
- William Shakespeare
“When life hands you lemons - break out the tequila and salt.”
- anonymous
“Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it.”
- Italian Proverb
“Can that which is unsavory be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?”
- The Bible, Job 6:6”
“Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.”
- Oliver Goldsmith
“Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.”
- Rebecca West
“Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.”
- Frederick Buechner
“Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it. “
- John Christian Bovee
“We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.”
- Jimmy Carter
“Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases.”
- Chinese Proverb
“Willpower is the ability to eat one salted peanut.”
- anonymous
“WIT, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.”
- Ambrose Bierce
“Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was--like eating an egg without salt.”
- Rudyard Kipling
“Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor.”
- Donna Reed
“Where would we be without salt?”
- James Beard
“Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.”
- Mickey Spillane
“Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man.”
- The Bible,Colossians 4:6
