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"The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat." »Vilhjlmur Stefnsson
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"The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth." »Rebecca West
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"Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed." »Buddha
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"We have some salt of our youth in us." »William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 2 scene 3
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"There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward." »James Grover Thurber
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"Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week." »Will Rogers
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"This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you're doing, or it comes out flat. You can't fake your way through this." »Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 29, 2004
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"This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youre doing, or it comes out flat. You cant fake your way through this." »Real Live Preacher
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"Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic." »Ambrose Bierce
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"Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it." »English Proverb
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"It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat." »Logan Pearsall Smith
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"Lust is the craving for salt of a person who is dying of thirst." »Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973
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"I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity." »M. C. Escher
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"Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it." »John Christian Bovee
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"There are three things which, in great quantity, are bad, and, in little, very good: leaven, salt, and liberality." »The Talmud
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"Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places." »Latin Proverb
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"Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow." »Arthur Stringer
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"In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat." »Auguste Renoir
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"Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error." »Gen. Peyton C. March
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"Just like a mountain goat climbing very steep and dangerous land to lick salt from the rocks, man also should take high risks to get what he wants!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules - but to win. And in truth, I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline." »Vince Lombardi
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"If you had to list the different types of haircuts in order of how warm they kept the head, you'd probably put the flat-top down near the bottom. But you know, I bet it's surprisingly warm." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Laughing is peculiar to man, but all men do not laugh for the same reason. There is the attic salt which springs from the charm in the words, from the flash of wit, from the spirited and brilliant sally. There is the low joke which arises from scurrility and idle conceit." »Goldoni
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"If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter." »Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures (regarding popcorn)
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"The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church." »Ferdinand Magellan
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"Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings." »Jimmy Carter
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"We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself." »Jimmy Carter
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"Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center." »Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.
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