Salt Quotes - Page 12

• Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Health, Meat, Cheese

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.35, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in the North, and that if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the blood of females is blacker than that of males; that the pig is the only animal liable to measles; that an elephant suffering from insomnia should have its shoulders rubbed with salt, olive-oil, and warm water; that women have fewer teeth than men, and so on. Nevertheless, he is considered by the great majority of philosophers a paragon of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Children, Winter

  Bertrand Russell (1943). “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity”

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• We have some salt of our youth in us.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Youth

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Letting Go, Memorable, Past

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• I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct a landscape that I need to first explore in my mind's eye if I am to make it manifest as an artful image in silver.

  Paul Caponigro

  Photography, Eye, Mind

  Paul Caponigro (2002). “New England Days”, p.9, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt. Deer apparently ascend bodily into heaven; the brightest oriole fades into leaves.

  Annie Dillard

  Nature, Eye, Water

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.18, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• I have eaten your bread and salt.
  I have drunk your water and wine.
  The deaths ye died I have watched beside
  And the lives ye led were mine.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Wine, Drunk, Water

  Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.

  Cyril Connolly

  Memories, Wine, Sunshine

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• It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Ocean, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.271, Modern Library

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• Holy is the dish and drain, the soap and sink, and the cup and plate and the warm wool socks, and the cold white tile, showerheads and good dry towelsand frying eggs sound like psalms, with bits of salt measured in my palm. It's all a part of a sacrament, as holy as a day is spent.

  Carrie Newcomer

  Faith, Inspiration, Eggs

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• When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with salt and let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird fly in the hole and sing a simple song like a tiny bell and let it ring.

  Michael Leunig

  Dog, Song, Lying

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• In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.

  Jared Diamond

  Water, Environmental, Montana

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• Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.

  Matthew Arnold

  Horse, Blow, Wind

  'The Forsaken Merman' (1849) l. 4

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• We must infer that a plant or animal of any species, is made up of special units, in all of which there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to aggregate into the form of that species: just as in the atoms of a salt, there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to crystallize in a particular way.‎

  Herbert Spencer

  Animal, Dna, Special

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “The Principles of Biology”, p.181

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• You just have to take a little salt, and since I'm doing that it's, like, BOOM! In one week, I felt it kick in. All the commotion around me, all the water around me, moving left and right around me, became like a lake.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Moving, Lakes, Water

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• I believe our differences are the little pinches of salt that can make the marriage seem more flavorful.

  James E. Faust

  Believe, Differences, Funny Marriage

  "Enriching Your Marriage". James E. Faust's First Presidency message, www.lds.org. April 2007.

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• I'm an angel. I kill firstborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt. I even, when I feel like it, rip the souls from little girls, and from now till kingdom come, the only thing you can count on in your existence is never understanding why.

  Christopher Walken

  Girl, Rip, Angel

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• Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman’s bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can’t we be friendly?

  Jeremy Irons

  Communication, Men, Hands

  "If a man pats a woman's bottom he's just being friendly, says Jeremy Irons" by Liz Thomas, www.dailymail.co.uk. August 9, 2011.

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• By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across - each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip - is a coffee bean that will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a touch of cardamom, sometimes a tiny pinch of salt, boiled thrice with sugar, and served as a piping-hot tale.

  Rabih Alameddine

  Coffee, Book, Hot

  "The Blurb #11: A Fresh Eye" by Rabih Alameddine, therumpus.net. October 27, 2009.

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• We are taught not to trust our own experiences. Great Salt Lake teaches me experience is all we have.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Lakes, Taught, Teach

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.92, Vintage

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• Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Sweet, Pain

  Robert Frost (1986). “Robert Frost”, Clarkson Potter

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• When called to the Council of the Twelve, October 4, 1963, he said in the Salt Lake Tabernacle: I think of a little sister, a French-Canadian sister, whose life was changed by the missionaries as her spirit was touched. As she said good-by to me and my wife in Quebec, she said, "President Monson, I may never see the Prophet. I may never hear the Prophet. But President, far better, now that I am a member of this Church, I can obey the Prophet."

  Thomas S. Monson

  Sister, Thinking, Lakes

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• Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God.

  Katy Perry

  Prayer, Secret, Tongue

  "Katy Perry's Preacher Mom Disagrees With Daughter's Career Choices", www.foxnews.com. March 16, 2011.

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• There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.

  George Eliot

  Folks

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.61

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• We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success. We must therefore act together as a united people, for national reconciliation, for nation building, for the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world. Let freedom reign.

  Nelson Mandela

  Beautiful, Land, Justice For All

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

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