Best 112 quotes in «salt quotes» category

A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.

A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.

A kiss without a mustache is like an egg without salt.

A little truth seasons a lie like salt.

All the sea-gods are dead. You, Venus, come home To your salt maidenhead.

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language.

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.

Avoid buying frozen dinners and processed foods, as they are often overloaded with salt.

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.

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.

But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.

As we do not see squares in nature, I thought that it is man-made. But I have corrected myself. Because squares exist in salt crystals, our daily salt.

Do you have a sleeping bag?” I stared at him. “No. I lost it in the great salt-dip of ’06.

Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.

Freedom requires religion like a slug requires salt

For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its Sun, which diffuses about it self that natural Heat which preserves its Globe: And in the Onion, the Germ is the little Sun of that little World, which vivifies and nourishes the vegetative Salt of that little mass.

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

Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river.

I had drawn away into the salt, myself, a shell emptied of life.

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.

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.

If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.

I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.

In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.

I really believe that a lawyer - no matter how good - if he or she is really worth their weight in salt, they will lose some cases because, after all, it is not really one of those secretive things that not everything is decided by who your lawyer is.

I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping.

I love Salt Lake City. It's beautiful with all the great outdoors around you.

It doesn't seem to matter what we think...The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do.

It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.

Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man

I never understood that if you sweat as much as I used to every night, you drain your body of salts. So I got very, very, seriously ill. I got to the stage where I was almost hospitalized with serious problems.

I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.

I've been more conscious of my salt intake, sugar intake, making sure I'm not eating as many processed foods.

I went to a restaurant with my friend, and he said, "Pass the salt." I said, "Screw you! Sit closer to the salt.

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

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

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

Mike Dukakis? He's the salt of the earth.

Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt.

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

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.

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

Salt represents the civilized: it requires know-how to get it, and a sophisticated combination of cooking and spoilt, jaded appetites to need it.

Salt. Wound. Together at last.

Risk is the salt and sugar of life.

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

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