Salt Quotes

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. (William Hazlitt)
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. View quote
Karen Blixen
The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth. View quote
Rebecca West
Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt. View quote
Mickey Spillane
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. View quote
Andrew Jackson
It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
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. View quote
Dante Alighieri
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? View quote
Jeremy Irons
No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out. View quote
Bohumil Hrabal
No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one. View quote
Tallulah Bankhead
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for. (Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.)
The best smell is bread the best savor, salt the best love, that of children. View quote
George Herbert
Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was - like eating an egg without salt. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
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. View quote
John Berger
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. View quote
Stephen King
A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in w. View quote
Jonathan Swift
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. View quote
Vitruvius
There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture. View quote
Antonio Tabucchi
When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. [Eric] Bristow is only 27. View quote
Sid Waddell
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)
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. View quote
Daniel Handler
There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it. View quote
George Eliot
Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him. View quote
Cicero
Some of the environmental lobbyists of the western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They have never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for fifty years, they would be crying out for tractors, and fertilizer, and irrigation canals, and be outraged that fashionable elitists back home were trying to deny them these things. View quote
Norman Borlaug