“Sometimes the salt taste good, but I'd rather have the sugar.”
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Subject of the documentary THE MAYOR 1978Related quotes

“Well, it's sugar for sugar
And salt for salt
If you go down in the flood
It's gonna be your own fault”
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)

Source: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 12.15

“Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.”

“Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we see
Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!”
Source: Retaliation (1774), Line 11.

“892. Better eat Salt with Philosophers of Greece, than eat Sugar with Courtezans of Italy.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1740) : Thou hadst better eat salt with the Philosophers of Greece, than sugar with the Courtiers of Italy.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“166. Of all smells, bread; of all tasts, salt.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)