Salt Quotes

• 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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• Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.

  George Santayana

  Lying, Grain Of Salt, Good Humor

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• Sometimes we need the salt of tears to remind us how to savor the sweetness of life.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Inspirational, Life, Tears

  Twitter post from Dec 04, 2016

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• Love is the salt of life.

  John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

  Life, Love Is

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• Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors indiscriminatly that abound with Sulphurous Salts, (under which I comprehend the Urinous and Volatile Salts of Animal Substances, and the Alcalisate or fixed Salts that are made by Incineration) have the virtue of Restoring it.

  Robert Boyle

  Science, Animal, Substance

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

  Pythagoras

  Food, Sea, Parent

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• The salt blowing off the sea makes the air feel textured and heavy.

  Lauren Oliver

  Air, Sea, Heavy

  Lauren Oliver, Veronica Roth, Lauren Conrad, Sara Shepard, Kiera Cass (2012). “Must-Read Teen Novel Sampler: For the Teen in All of Us: A Collection of Fabulous Reads”, p.18, Harper Collins

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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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• To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.

  Rachel Carson

  Running, Moving, Years

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• 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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• The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Civilization, Interesting, Mixtures

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• Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Native American, Humor, Leaving

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.238, University of Georgia Press

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• It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Food, Men, Cooking

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...”, p.154

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• Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Art, Harm, Thee

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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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• If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.

  Chris Daughtry

  Color, People, Rude

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.

  Florence King

  Worry, Important, Hell

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• Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.

  Harper Lee

  Writing, Self, Exorcism

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• 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

  Leadership, Men, Risk

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• 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

  Animal, Pigs, Two

  John Berger (2011). “About Looking”, p.7, Vintage

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• I think any actor worth their salt wants to show as much versatility as they possibly can.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Thinking, Actors, Want

  "Daniel Radcliffe On Ditching Harry And Becoming A Man". Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.

  Marc Newson

  Years, Europe, Three

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• In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.

  Paula Deen

  Morning, Order, Giving

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• With all of the holiday cheer in the air, it's easy to overlook the ingredients in the foods. Ingredients such as salt, sugar, and fat - all of which leads to diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, strokes, heart disease, and cancer.

  Lee Haney

  Cheer, Cancer, Heart

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