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Salt Quotes

The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his work indistinguishable from nature itself.

Alister MacKenzie (2015). “Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and Greenkeeping”, p.13, Coventry House Publishing

As we do not see squares in nature, I thought that it is man-made. But I have corrected myself. Because squares exist in salt crystals, our daily salt.

Oral history interview with Sevim Fesci in New Haven, Connecticut, for the "Archives of American Art," Smithsonian Institution, www.aaa.si.edu. June 22, 1968.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

Naomi Shihab Nye (1995). “Words under the words: selected poems”, The Eighth Mountain Press

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.

Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.979, Penguin

A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.

"The Last Lecture". Book by Jeffrey Zaslow and Randy Pausch, 2008.

My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him.

Les Dawson (2012). “Les Dawson's Joke Book”, p.22, Michael O'Mara Books

It's all in fun. I take everything with a grain of salt.

"Hope Solo dealing with the stars" by Elizabeth Merrill, www.espn.com. September 26, 2011.

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage

There is no savor more sweet, more salt than to be glad to be what, woman, and who, myself, I am.

Denise Levertov (1967). “The Sorrow Dance: Poems”, [New York] : New Directions