Sense, shortness, and salt. [ James Howell ]
Take it with a grin of salt. [ Yogi Berra ]
Business is the salt of life. [ Proverb ]
Better cry fie salt than fie stink. [ Proverb ]
Salt spilt is seldom clean taken up. [ Proverb ]
Earnestness is the salt of eloquence. [ Victor Hugo ]
We have some salt of our youth in us. [ William Shakespeare ]
He could even eat my heart without salt. [ Proverb ]
Disappointment is often the salt of life. [ Theodore Parker ]
Advise with salt, (i.e. with discretion). [ Motto ]
Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Salt cooks bear blame, but fresh cooks shame. [ Proverb ]
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. [ William Hazlitt ]
The eastern gate, all fiery red,
Opening on Neptune, with fair blessed beams,
Turns into yellow gold his salt-green streams. [ William Shakespeare ]
He is so poor that he has not salt to his porridge. [ Proverb ]
Before you trust a man, eat a peck of salt with him. [ Proverb ]
Like fish, that live in salt water and yet are fresh. [ Proverb ]
Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
It is a strange salt fish that no water can make fresh. [ Proverb ]
Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. [ Proverb ]
Rebukes ought not to have a grain of salt more than of sugar. [ Proverb ]
A gentleman's greyhound and a salt box, seek them at the fire. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
It is a foolish bird that stays the laying salt upon her tail. [ Proverb ]
A third salt; a neutral salt; the union of an acid and an alkali.
The water that comes from the same spring, cannot be fresh and salt both. [ Proverb ]
A certain degree of soul is indispensable to save us the expense of salt. [ Ben Jonson ]
The best smell is bread, the best savor salt, the best love that of children. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Woman is the Sunday of man: not his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his life. [ Michelet ]
Better eat salt with philosophers of Greece, than eat sugar with courtesans of Italy. [ Proverb ]
Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things - law and war. [ Bailey ]
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar, of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it. [ Bovee ]
Wise sayings are as saltpits; you may extract salt out of them, and sprinkle it where you will. [ Cicero ]
Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to. [ Bishop Horne ]
Trust no man till you have eaten a peck of salt with him, (i.e. known him so long as you might have done so. [ Proverb ]
Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs. [ Dante ]
The flavor of detached thoughts depends upon the conciseness of their expression: for thoughts are grains of sugar, or of salt, that must be melted in a drop of water. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it. [ Feltham ]
There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased, till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive. [ Spencer ]