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
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)
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.
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)
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
Now no joy but lacks salt, That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
robert frost— "To Earthward" (1923), st. 5,6
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
Being kissed bya man who didn't wax his moustache waslike eating an egg without salt.
— 1888 The Story of the Gadsbys,'Poor Dear Mamma'.
It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
Miguel de Cervantes— Ch. 1. (Part I)
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
william hazlitt— "On Wit and Humour"
You will follow us soon! Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood!
maximilien robespierre— Exclamation of Georges Danton passing Robespierre's house on the way to the guillotine, quoted in the memoirs of Paul vicomte de Barras.
The salt said, look by the sea,Your tears are not enough praise,You will find no comfort here,In the kingdom of bang and blab.
theodore roethke— The Lost Son, ll. 32 - 35
“I smell fennel,” Launcelot said. “That reminds me, I should tell you I have discovered a specific for maims. You take salt, good-quality river mud, and bee urine, and slather it on the maim and hold it there for two days. Works like a charm. Gathering the bee urine is a bit of a bore.”
Donald Barthelme— p. 94 (The King (1990))
She isn't very clever or very devout,... and she certainly empties the whole salt cellar into the stories she tells me. But I love her because she never lies.
Georges Bernanos— Chantal speaking of the cook, Madame Fernande, p.119
God has given the salt lick to the deer; and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to slake his thirst.
james fenimore cooper— The Pathfinder (1840)
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.
ilana mercer— "Uber Alec, Barking-Mad Bashir, Death-Defying Libertarians", WorldNetDaily.com, November 29, 2013.
Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions. Open pans of maple sugar can have the surface ice removed regularly (each day) until a sugar concentrate remains. Salts in water, and alcohol in ferment liquors can be concentrated in the same way.
bill mollison— chapter 12.15
These hills are too green and sweet to have tasted salt. I follow the sheep path between them. A last hook brings me To the hills' northern face, and the face is orange rock That looks out on nothing, nothing but a great space Of white and pewter lights, and a din like silversmiths Beating and beating at an intractable metal.
Sylvia Plath— "Blackberrying"
And though you duck them ne'er so long, Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue; 'Tis hence they scandal have at will, And that this member ne'er lies still.
john gay— John Gay, The Mad Dog.
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt.
— Colossians, IV. 6.
And then, the quiet of the green, inland valleys of our Father's land, where no tempest comes any more, nor the loud winds are ever heard, nor the salt sea is ever seen; but perpetual calm and blessedness; all mystery gone, and all rebellion hushed and silenced, and all unrest at an end forever! " No more sea;" but, instead of that wild and yeasty chaos of turbulent waters, there shall be the river that makes glad the city of God, the river of water of life, that proceeds "out of the throne of God and of the Lamb."
— Alexander Maclaren, p. 301 (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t' his other virtues, They're all unseason'd without it.
Ben Jonson— Ben Jonson, New Inn, Act IV, scene 3.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King— American horror fiction author
A Child will make two Dishes at an Entertainment for Friends; and when the Family dines alone, the fore or hind Quarter will makea reasonable Dish; and seasoned with a little Pepper or salt, will be very good Boiled on the fourth Day, especially in Winter.
jonathan swift— 1729 A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from being a Burden to their Parents or Country.
