Rebecca West (1892–1983) British feminist and author
"The Salt of the Earth"
Source: The Harsh Voice: Four Short Novels (1935)
“Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before.”
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated 1957)
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“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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“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)
“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 (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
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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István Küzmics (1723–1779) Hungarian translator
“620. Before you make a friend eate a bushell of salt with him.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men
Source: No Country for Old Men (2005)
Context: The stories gets passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the sayin goes. Which I reckon some would take as meanin that the truth cant compete. But I dont believe that. I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt. You cant corrupt it because that's what it is. It's the thing you're talkin about. I've heard it compared to the rock — maybe in the bible—and I wouldnt disagree with that. But it'll be here even when the rock is gone. I'm sure they's people would disagree with that. Quite a few, in fact. But I never could find out what any of them did believe.