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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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"I am sure the grapes are sour." »Aesop
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"You've got to take the bitter with the sour." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"Every sweet has its sour every evil its good." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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"A quarrel is like buttermilk, the more you stir it, the more sour it grows." »Bolivian Proverb
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"There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame." »William Langland
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"sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted." »Chinese Proverb
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"Suffering is the necessary consequence of sin, just as when you eat a sour fruit a stomach complaint ensues." »Burmese Proverb
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"There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside." »Pearl Bailey
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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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"Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it." »English Proverb
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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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"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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"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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"Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it." »John Christian Bovee
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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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"Ask not a man who his father was but make trial of his qualities, and then conciliate or reject him accordingly. For it is no disgrace to new wine, if only it be sweet, as to its taste, that it was the juice [or daughter] of sour grapes." »Arabic Proverb
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"Very distasteful is excessive fame To the sour palate of the envious mind, Who hears with grief his neighbours good by name, And hates the fortune that he ne?er shall find." »Pindar
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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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"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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"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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"Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes." »Zelda
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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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"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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"Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good." »Alice May Brock
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"Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian wine and tarragon make it French. sour cream makes it Russian lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese garlic makes it good." »Alice May Brock
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