Salt Quotes - Page 26

• I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal.

  Erma Bombeck

  Tables, Littles, Jars

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• If acorns start growing into theologians, or if women begin turning into pillars of salt, then we may wish to hypothesize about a supernatural influence. But until such time as nature becomes hopelessly unintelligible and unpredictable, we need look no further than nature itself for explanations.

  George H. Smith

  Spring, Wish, Needs

  George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.262, Prometheus Books

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• Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt.

  Uesugi Kenshin

  War, Spears, Rice

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• We put pride into everything like salt. We like to see that our good works are known. If our virtues are seen, we are pleased; if our faults are perceived, we are sad. I remark that in a great many people; if one says anything to them, it disturbs them, it annoys them. The saints were not like that - they were vexed if their virtues were known, and pleased that their imperfections should be seen.

  John Vianney

  Pride, People, Imperfection

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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! The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

  Joanna Baillie

  Dream, Stupid, Struggle

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• People feel poorly because they are nourished by foods you wouldn't feed to your dog and cat. The rich western diet is full of fat, sugar, cholesterol, salt, animal protein - all the wrong foods for people.

  John A. McDougall

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.

  May Sarton

  Solitude, Flavor, Personhood

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• Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning

  Nellie Bly

  Two, Water, Trying

  Nellie Bly (2015). “10 Days in a Madhouse (Annotated)”, p.66, Golgotha Press

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• Any coach worth his salt will take a look at that and say, 'I'll take my chances with that'

  Joe Dumars

  Looks, Chance, Coaches

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• Just as the Salt Lake Temple took 40 years to build, stone by stone, you are building a virtuous life, step by step.

  Mary N. Cook

  Lakes, Years, Stones

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• In the sea of love, I melt like salt Faith, Doubt - they both dissolve. A star is opening in my heart . The worlds turn in it.

  Rumi

  Stars, Heart, Sea

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• The first thing you have to do is take everything with a grain of salt. You know, you've gotta just look at the goal, focus on what you gotta do and take one step at a time as a whole, as every performance being that's it, that's one objective, and let's just move forward and work on that.

  Stefano Langone

  Moving, Goal, Focus

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• We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.

  Robert Collier

  Grain Of Salt, World, Hearing

  Robert Collier, Dr Robert C. Worstell (2014). “Robert Collier Copywriting Course - Masters of Marketing Secrets: Learn to Write Sales Letters That Pay”, p.67, Lulu.com

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• Don’t bring the ocean if I feel thirsty, nor heaven if I ask for a light; but bring a hint, some dew, a particle, as birds carry only drops away from water, and the wind a grain of salt.

  Olav H. Hauge

  Ocean, Light, Wind

  Olav H. Hauge (1987). “Trusting Your Life to Water and Eternity: Twenty Poems of Olav H. Hauge”

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• Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.

  Harper Lee

  Writing, Exorcism, Please

  "All Harper Lee wanted was to be 'the Jane Austen of South Alabama' - here's how she accomplished that and so much more" by Rachel Gillett, www.businessinsider.com. February 20, 2016.

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• Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

  Jimmy Carter

  Luxury, Bread, Values

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• A time will come, when fields will be manured with a solution of glass (silicate of potash), with the ashes of burnt straw, and with the salts of phosphoric acid, prepared in chemical manufactories, exactly as at present medicines are given for fever and goitre.

  Justus von Liebig

  Science, Medicine, Glasses

  Justus von Liebig (1842). “Chemistry in its applications to agriculture and physiology: By Justus Liebig. Edited from the manuscript of the author by Lyon Playfair”, p.176

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• Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junkmail. You can't be ready for such a thing any more than salt water taffy gets you ready for the ocean.

  Daniel Handler

  Love, Ocean, Feet

  "Adverbs". Book by Daniel Handler, 2006.

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• A Child will make two Dishes at an Entertainment for Friends; and when the Family dines alone, the fore or hind Quarter will makea reasonable Dish; and seasoned with a little Pepper or Salt, will be very good Boiled on the fourth Day, especially in Winter.

  Jonathan Swift

  Children, Winter, Two

  1729 A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from being a Burden to their Parents or Country.

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• If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. With mushrooms it is so simple - you salt them well, put them aside and have patience. But with love, you have no sooner lighted on anything that bears even the remotest resemblance to it than you are perfectly certain it is not only a genuine specimen, but perhaps the only genuine mushroom ungathered.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Love You, Simple, Mushrooms

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1032, Delphi Classics

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• Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears! Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of mortality! And sick of prey, yet howling on for more, Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore, Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm, Who shall put forth on thee, Unfathomable sea?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ocean, Years, Sea

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.292

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• Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it.

  Owen Feltham

  Business, Grateful, Giving

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• All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken from the quarries. Under cover, they play their part well; but in open and exposed situations the frost and rime make them crumble, and they go to pieces. On the seacoast, too, the salt eats away and dissolves them, nor can they stand great heat either.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Taken, Play, Frost

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Chapter VII, Section 2,

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• the feet should have more of the acquaintance of earth, and know more of flowers, freshness, cool brooks, wild thyme, and salt sand than does anything else about us. ... It is only the entirely unshod that have lively feet.

  Alice Meynell

  Flower, Feet, Should Have

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.451, eBookIt.com

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• At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.

  Isabel Allende

  Time, Water, Age

  Isabel Allende (1993). “The Infinite Plan: A Novel”, Harpercollins

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