Salt

This is a collection of proverbs and quotes about salt.

Salt
Salt of the earth


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A kiss without a beard is like an egg without salt.
A boy should be older than the girl he is kissing.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
Helen Rowland

Don’t slaughter more pigs than you can salt.

Eternity makes room for a salty cucumber.

Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it.

In Britain corn has meant any grain since the time of the Anglo-Saxons. It also came to signify any small round object, which explains the corns on your feet. Corned beef is so called because originally it was cured in kernels of salt. Because of the importance of maize in America, the word corn became attached to maize exclusively in the early eighteenth century.
Bill Bryson
Source: At Home

Kissing is like drinking salted water, you drink and your thirst increases.
Jan Harper

Let's drink to the hard working people
Let's drink to the lowly of birth
Raise your glass to the good and the evil
Lets drink to the salt of the earth
The Rolling Stones
Source: Salt of the Earth Lyrics

Salt will never be worm-eaten.

The salt of the earth.
Refers to people who are considered to be of great worth and reliability.

To be jealous is to rub salt into your own wounds.
Terri Guillemets

Who's the DEAD MAN that hit me with the salt shaker?
(unknown author)
Source: Movie: Dumb and Dumber
Quoted: Sea Bass




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