Salt Quotes
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A God, a God their severance ruled! And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea.
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More Salt Quotes
Everywhere the sea is a teacher of truth. I am not sure that the best thing I find in sailing is not this salt of reality.
hilaire belloc— c.1910 The Cruise of the Nona.
'Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers, With England's own coal, up and down the salt seas?'
'We are going to fetch you your bread and your butter, Your beef, pork, and mutton, eggs, apples and cheese.'
— Big Steamers (1911)
Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream.
Matthew Arnold— 1849 The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems,'The Forsaken Merman', l.35-8.
The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.
karen blixen— As quoted in Reader's Digest (April 1964)
— Variant: I know a cure for everything. Salt water ... in one form or another, sweat, tears or the salt sea.
How melancholy a thing is success. Whilst failure inspirits a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories "Are shadows, not substantial things." Truly said the sayer, "disappointment is the salt of life" a salutary bitter which strengthens the mind for fresh exertion, and gives a double value to the prize.
sir richard francis burton— First Footsteps in East Africa (1856)
In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.
ernest hemingway— Ch. 10 (True at First Light (1999))
A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.
jimmy hoffa— Chapter 2, How It All Started, p. 28
Oh salty sea, how much of your salt are tears of Portugal!
— Original: Ó mar salgado, quanto do teu sal
São lágrimas de Portugal!
— Poem "Mar Português", Verses 1-2
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Bible (Old Testament)— Genesis19:26.
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Bible (NewTestament)— St Matthew 5:13.
We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA).
— 1953 First sentence of the paper describing the structure of DNA, with Francis Crick. Nature, 25 Apr.
We have a wretched motley crew, in the fleet; the marines the refuse of every regiment, and the seamen, few of them, ever wet with salt water.
benedict arnold— Letter to General Gates (21 September 1776), in Battle of Valcour on Lake Champlain, October 11th, 1776 by Peter Sailly Palmer (1876, p. 5)
In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that’s why you’re not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.
Primo Levi— "Zinc" (The Periodic Table (1975))
When life gives you lemons, get tequila and salt.
sanjaya malakar— Attributed to Malakar as an e-mail sign off. [5]
If evolution was worth its salt, it should've evolved something better than 'survival of the fittest.' I think a better idea would be 'survival of the wittiest.' At least, that way, creatures that didn't survive could've died laughing.
lily tomlin— As "Trudy"
Helen whose face was fatal must have weptMany salt tears to keep her eyes so brightMany long nights alone: and every nightMen died, she cried, and happy Paris keptSweet Helen.
t. h. (terence hanbury) white— "PARIS"
I have seen Christians in Communist prisons with fifty pounds of chains on their feet, tortured with red-hot iron pokers, in whose throats spoonfuls of salt had been forced, being kept afterward without water, starving, whipped, suffering from cold--and praying with fervor for the Communists. This is humanly inexplicable! It is the love of Christ, which was poured out in our hearts.
richard wurmbrand— p. 55 (Tortured For Christ (1967))
The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc..
carl jung— "Two Essays in Analytical Psychology" In CW 7: P. 188
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.
rudyard kipling— Prelude, Stanza 1.
Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.
rudyard kipling— The Story of the Gadsbys (1888), "Poor Dear Mamma".
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.
vitruvius— Chapter VII, Sec. 2
The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
rebecca west— "The Salt of the Earth"
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life , in a great cause.
theodore roosevelt— Quotes by Roosevelt Theodore (p. 10)
Aphorism or maxim, let us remember that this wisdom of life is the true salt of literature; that those books, at least in prose, are most nourishing which are most richly stored with it; and that is one of the great objects, apart from the mere acquisition of knowledge, which men ought to seek in the reading of books.
— John Morley (1838-1923), 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, British statesman and writer. Aphorisms (1887) p. 11
A good aphorism is too hard for the teeth of time and is not eaten up by all the centuries, even though it serves as food for every age: hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which like salt is always prized, but which never loses its savor as salt does.
— Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher. Mixed Opinions and Maxims, aphorism 168, 'In Praise of Aphorisms' (1879)
We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (1856), Book I, line 700.
If the abortion is well done, we don't have to watch the baby die. So we inject a salt solution. The result is like putting salt on a slug, but we don't have to watch it.
— Russell Sacco, abortion doctor, "Infants Aborted Alive: Officials Wink at Laws" The Oregon Journal (March 14, 1982).
The blood is warm and salt, Time Lord. I know how near you are.
— Who: Shockeye
— Source: The Two Doctors: Episode 3 (1985)
— Notes: .
