Salt Quotes
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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.
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More Salt Quotes
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 God, a God their severance ruled! And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea.
Matthew Arnold— 1852 Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems,'To MargueriteContinued', l.22-4.
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.
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.
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)
'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.
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
And because I was a poet, and because the public praised me, With their critical deductions for the modern writer's fault; I could sit at rich men's tables,though the courtesies that raise me, Still suggested clear between us, the pale spectrum of the salt.
— 1844 Poems,'Lady Geraldine's Courtship', stanza 9.
There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.
Tennyson— 1850 In Memoriam A.H.H., canto19, l.5-8.
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.
I don’t pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn’t try to convince you that salt was sugar.
nalo hopkinson— Chapter 1 (p. 40)
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))
A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter.
jonathan swift— A Modest Proposal (1729)
As boys do sparrows, with flinging salt upon their tails.
jonathan swift— Sect. 7 (A Tale of a Tub (1704))
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"
Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears: Yet, slower, yet; O faintly, gentle springs: List to the heavy part the music bears, Woe weeps out her division, when she sings. Droop herbs, and flowers, Fall grief in showers, Our beauties are not ours; O, I could still, Like melting snow upon some craggy hill, Drop, drop, drop, drop, Since nature's pride is now, a withered daffodil.
Ben Jonson— Cynthia's Revels (1600), Act I, scene i.
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.
While in Campania the burning of the earth makes ashes, in Tuscany the combustion of the stone makes carbuncular sand. Both are excellent in walls but one is better to use for buildings on land, the other for piers under salt water.
vitruvius— Chapter VI, Sec. 6
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
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.
— "Uber Alec, Barking-Mad Bashir, Death-Defying Libertarians", WorldNetDaily.com, November 29, 2013.
When my toes are sunk into warm sand and the ocean is lapping my feet, when I breathe in the scent of salt and hear the cry of a seagull, I know that I am returned to a place of restoration. I am home. I can heal here.
Toni Sorenson— Author
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
Not worth his salt.
— Sec. 57
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).
