“When life gives you lemons, get tequila and salt.”
Sanjaya Malakar (1989) American reality television personality
Attributed to Malakar as an e-mail sign off. http://www.fanjaya.com
“Business is the salt of life.”
— Voltaire
This is a proverb which can be found in Robert Codrington's "Youth's Behaviour, Second Part" (1672) and in Thomas Fuller's "Gnomologia" (1732)
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Françoise Sagan book Dans un mois, dans un an
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated 1957)
“We do not know what life is, and yet we manipulate it as if it were an inorganic salt solution…”
Erwin Chargaff (1905–2002) Ukrinian-born biochemist who emigrated to the United States
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“The important business of man is life, and the important business of life is death.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
Rebecca West (1892–1983) British feminist and author
"The Salt of the Earth"
Source: The Harsh Voice: Four Short Novels (1935)
“With a grain of salt.”
Cum grano salis.
Pliny the Elder book Natural History
Book XXIII, sec. 8.
Naturalis Historia
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.
“Well, it's sugar for sugar
And salt for salt
If you go down in the flood
It's gonna be your own fault”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Compare: "I give you sugar for sugar, but all you want is salt for salt/ Well if you can't get along with me, then it's your own fault." Richard Brown, James Alley Blues.
Song lyrics, The Basement Tapes (1975), Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood) (recorded 1967)
