Salt Quotes - Page 2

• Neither sugar nor salt tastes particularly good by itself. Each is at its best when used to season other things. Love is the same way. Use it to "season" people.

  Vera Nazarian

  Love Is, People, Use

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• I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always goes to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war, one has salt for the rest of one's life. Do you understand?

  John Fowles

  Life, Country, Laughter

  "The Magus".

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• A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

  Helen Rowland

  Wise, Wisdom, Sassy

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.87, Lulu.com

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• It's all in fun. I take everything with a grain of salt.

  Hope Solo

  Grain Of Salt, One Step At A Time, Grain

  "Hope Solo dealing with the stars" by Elizabeth Merrill, www.espn.com. September 26, 2011.

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• But don’t forget that memory is like salt: the right amount brings out
  the flavour in food, too much ruins it. If you live in the past all the
  time, you’ll find yourself with no present to remember.

  Paulo Coelho

  Memories, Past, Finding Yourself

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• I have a home in Salt Lake, and I have a home in Malibu, at the beach.

  Roma Downey

  Beach, Home, Lakes

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• Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

  Nelson Mandela

  Peace, Nature, Water

  Presidential Inaugural Speech, delivered 10 May 1994, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.

  Lee Iacocca

  People, Trying, Littles

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.53, Bantam

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

  Cornelia Funke

  Stories, Soup, Villain

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.156, Scholastic Inc.

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

  Mark Kurlansky

  Warfare, Constant

  Mark Kurlansky (2003). “Salt: A World History”, p.136, Penguin

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

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Kissing, Eggs, Mustache

  Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.252, U of Nebraska Press

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• Trade liberty for safety or money and you'll end up with neither. Liberty, like a grain of salt, easily dissolves. The power of questioning - not simply believing - has no friends. Yet liberty depends on it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Safety, Liberty

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• Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.

  Philip Yancey

  Littles, Bits, Little Bit

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• The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.

  George Herbert

  Love, Children, Smell

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• At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

  Herman Melville

  Wine, Sea, Water

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.346, Northwestern University Press

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• Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

  Stephen King

  Motivational, Success, Encouragement

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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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!

  Ben Jonson

  Life, Dream, Struggle

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• It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

  Anthony Trollope

  Ambition, Parent, Progress

  Anthony Trollope (2014). “Is He Popenjoy?: A Novel”, p.484, Simon and Schuster

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• Place a lump of fresh butter in a pan or egg dish and let it melt - that is, just enough for it to spread, and never, of course, to crackle or sit; open a very fresh egg onto a small plate or saucer and slide it carefully into the pan; cook it on heat so low that the white barely turns creamy, and the yolk becomes hot but remains liquid; in a separate saucepan, melt another lump of fresh butter; remove the egg onto a lightly heated serving plate; salt it and pepper it, then very gently pour this fresh, warm butter over it

  Fernand Point

  Eggs, White, Hot

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• 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.

  Josef Albers

  Men, Squares, Crystals

  Oral history interview with Sevim Fesci in New Haven, Connecticut, for the "Archives of American Art," Smithsonian Institution, www.aaa.si.edu. June 22, 1968.

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

  Gail Simmons

  Dark, Chocolate, Together

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• Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!

  Josef Albers

  Color, Differences, Cooking

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• Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Buddhist, Thinking

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• "Do you know a cure for me?" Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water." Salt water?" I asked him. Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea".

  Isak Dinesen

  Sea, Sweat, Water

  "The Deluge at Norderney" by Isak Dinesen, 1934.

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• Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Running, Memories, Doors

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