“737. The best smell is bread, the best savour salt, the best love that of children.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“The gods love salt. The sweat of human endeavour adds savour to every sacrifice.”
— Mary Stewart, book The Hollow Hills
The Hollow Hills (1973)
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Karen Blixen (1885–1962) Danish writer
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.
Variant: The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.
“To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.”
Arthur Schopenhauer book Parerga and Paralipomena
Source: On Human Nature
François Fénelon (1651–1715) Catholic bishop
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 543.
Frederick William Robertson (1816–1853) British writer and theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 401.
Mark Hopkins (educator) (1802–1887) American educationalist and theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 61.
“Calvin: But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes
Source: The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
