Salt Quotes

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

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.

Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.

Like skateboarders, writers live by rejection; like writers, any skater worth his salt must have the single-minded tenacity of a wiener dog.

I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.

Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.

Sleeping as quiet as death, side by wrinkled side, toothless, salt and brown, like two old kippers in a box.

I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.

In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.

Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.

Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.

I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top.

We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.

I crave cantaloupe like a crazy person. But I put salt all over it, so I don't know if it's that healthy.

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

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

Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.

I'm not nearly the saint some of my fans imagine and I'm nowhere near the devil my detractors wish, so you simply take both of those with a grain of salt.

Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.

What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.

[The] whirlwind fife-and-drum of the storm bends the salt marsh grass, disturbs stars in the sky and the star on the steeple; it is a privilege to see so much confusion.

The history of the Americas is one of constant warfare over salt.

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

They had to ask spain I think, they've had to say to Spain, can you lend us some stuff for the roads, and it's Gordon Brown phoning up going 'pass the salt'

I guess it's just another one of life's little mysteries." "I'm tired of mysteries." "Yeah? I think they add a kind of zest to the world. Like salt in a stew.

We must act together, as a united people... 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.

Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.

As Christians continue to be vilified let us continue to rejoice and be exceedingly glad. It means we are salt, light and with Him.

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.

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.

When a Wall Street analyst or broker expresses optimism, investors must take it with a grain of salt.

Samsaric pleasures are like salt water, the more we indulge, the more we crave.

I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain.

'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.

Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing of her gallèd eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!

I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood.

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.

I'm really old-fashioned. An Epsom salt bath, that's genuinely better than any massage.

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to.

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

People marry with a deep longing that their partner will tend to their wounds, not throw salt in them. Honor your partner's vulnerability.

Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.