Best 112 quotes in «salt quotes» category

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

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Freedom requires religion like a slug requires salt

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn't you just pull out a box of Bisquick?

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

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

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.

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

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

Risk is the salt and sugar of life.

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

Take life with a pinch of salt A shot of tequila and a wedge of lime Do nothing at all But take your time