Salt Quotes

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

Work, Water, Bread

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

Life, Great, Worth

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

Work, Successful, Hard

Business is the salt of life.
Voltaire

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

Fighting, Soldier, Worth

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
Isak Dinesen

Sea, Water, Tears

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Ambrose Bierce

Leaving, American, Wit

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
Andrew Jackson

Worth, Takes, Believes

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, Woman, Everything

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.
George Jean Nathan

Find, Worth, Direction

If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.
Chris Daughtry

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
Dante Alighieri

Hard, Down, Find

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt

I think any actor worth their salt wants to show as much versatility as they possibly can.
Daniel Radcliffe

Show, Worth, Actor

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

Try, Rather, Worth

When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27.
Sid Waddell

Tears, Conquer, Worlds

We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies.
David Suzuki

Work, Food, Difficult

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

Respect, Wine, Sea

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
Rebecca West

Earth, Nobody, Likes

Can policy be both wise and aggressively partisan? Ask any Republican worth his salt and the answer will be an unequivocal yes. Ask a Democrat of the respectable Beltway variety and he will twist himself into a pretzel denying it.
Thomas Frank

Wise, Worth, Both

So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.
Buffalo Bill

Death, Father, Friends

You can easily put together your own favorite spice blend, whether that's a salt and pepper mixture or you're adding herbs to it or Creole spice. Just watch out for the sodium content. That why I encourage you to make your own.
Emeril Lagasse

Together, Why, Put

I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.
Anthony Kiedis

Love, Good, Body

I've always been a character actor, although I'm not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes, so any time I say anything - even 'pass the salt' - I have six subtexts, comments on what I really mean when I'm saying that. Maybe that's what gives the impression that I'm saying one thing and thinking something else.
Christopher Walken

Time, Character, Saying

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
John Berger

Two, Understand, Away

I've got a song called 'Salt Skin' because when you run in the heat it evaporates and you've got salt crystals on your face. I love that, because it means you've worked really hard.
Ellie Goulding

Love, Hard, Song

In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.
Paula Deen

Good, Morning, Give

People who are the salt of the earth get up and go to a job that they hate.
Gene Simmons

Hate, Job, Earth

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.
Robert Duvall

Cook, Argentina

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, Earth, Parent

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Related Definition

Salt Definition

Henry Adams

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us