Salt Quotes

• There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sea, Tears, Sacred

  "Sand and Foam". Book by Kahlil Gibran, 1926.

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• Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indwelling Christ, though unseen, will be made evident to others from the love which he imparts to us.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Water, Unseen, Doe

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• Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.

  Pythagoras

  Food, Sea, Parent

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• The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

  Isak Dinesen

  Beach, Encouragement, Ocean

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• Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Trust, Trust No One

  "Laelius De Amicitia (Laelius On Friendship)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Sections 19 and 67), 44 BC.

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• Neither sugar nor salt tastes particularly good by itself. Each is at its best when used to season other things. Love is the same way. Use it to "season" people.

  Vera Nazarian

  Love Is, People, Use

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• Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

  William Hazlitt

  Food, Talking, Conversation

  William Hazlitt (1841). “Lectures on the English Comic Writers. By William Hazlitt. Third edition. Edited by his son [William Hazlitt the Younger].”, p.50

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• I have a home in Salt Lake, and I have a home in Malibu, at the beach.

  Roma Downey

  Beach, Home, Lakes

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• Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

  Nelson Mandela

  Peace, Nature, Water

  Presidential Inaugural Speech, delivered 10 May 1994, Pretoria, South Africa

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• 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

  Wise, Wisdom, Sassy

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.87, Lulu.com

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• To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!

  Ben Jonson

  Life, Dream, Struggle

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• Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

  Stephen King

  Motivational, Success, Encouragement

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• "Do you know a cure for me?" Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water." Salt water?" I asked him. Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea".

  Isak Dinesen

  Sea, Sweat, Water

  "The Deluge at Norderney" by Isak Dinesen, 1934.

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• One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.

  Robert Duvall

  Travel, Argentina, Cooks

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• At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

  Herman Melville

  Wine, Sea, Water

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.346, Northwestern University Press

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• Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.

  Lee Iacocca

  People, Trying, Littles

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.53, Bantam

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• Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Running, Memories, Doors

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• Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

  Andrew Jackson

  Believe, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. [Eric] Bristow is only 27.

  Sid Waddell

  Tears, Eric, World

  "Jordan Spieth rambling his way towards golf's elite clubhouse in record time" by Scott Murray, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2017.

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• It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

  Anthony Trollope

  Ambition, Parent, Progress

  Anthony Trollope (2014). “Is He Popenjoy?: A Novel”, p.484, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Buddhist, Thinking

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• It's all in fun. I take everything with a grain of salt.

  Hope Solo

  Grain Of Salt, One Step At A Time, Grain

  "Hope Solo dealing with the stars" by Elizabeth Merrill, www.espn.com. September 26, 2011.

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• A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

  Angela Carter

  Eggs, Literature, Argument

  Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage

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• I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

  George Jean Nathan

  Men, Thinking, Firsts

  George Jean Nathan (1952). “The world of George Jean Nathan”

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• You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Way, Taste

  Divina Commedia "Paradiso" canto 17, l. 58 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

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