“Too much SALT isn’t good for you.”
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Remark about the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in Reykjavík, Iceland, quoted by James Reston, 'The New York Times (6 July 1986)
1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989)
“Oh salty sea, how much of your salt
are tears of Portugal!”
Fernando Pessoa book Mensagem
Poem "Mar Português", Verses 1-2
Message
Original: Ó mar salgado, quanto do teu sal
São lágrimas de Portugal!
“Preserving your health by too strict a diet is a tedious illness.”
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French author of maxims and memoirs
C'est une ennuyeuse maladie que de conserver sa santé par un trop grand régime.
Maxim 72 of the Maximes supprimées.
Later Additions to the Maxims
“There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.”
George Eliot book Adam Bede
Mrs Poyser
Adam Bede (1859)
“A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.”
Randy Pausch book The Last Lecture
The Last Lecture (2008)
“The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“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)
