Sayings about Salt & Pepper
The salt of patience seasons everything. ~ Italian Proverb
When the father has eaten too much salt in his lifetime, then his son thereafter will have a great thirst. ~ Vietnamese Proverb
A little pepper burns a big man’s mouth. ~ Jamaican Proverbs
You cannot pick up salt with dry fingers. ~ Chinese Proverbs
Manage with bread and salted butter until God brings something to eat with it. ~ Moroccan Proverbs
People should not talk while they are eating or pepper may go down the wrong way. ~ African Proverb
Eternity makes room for a salty cucumber. ~ Russian Proverbs
Bread and salt never quarrel. ~ Russian Proverb
Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar. ~ Traditional Proverb
There are some words that look like salted jam. ~ Arabian Proverbs
Salt and bread make the cheeks red. ~ German Proverbs
As a daughter grows up she is like smuggled salt. ~ Chinese Proverb
Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at thee thou wilt receive no harm unless thou hast sore places. ~ Latin Proverbs
A kiss without a beard is like an egg without salt. ~ Dutch Proverbs
If you can give me no ointment for my wound, can you help me by not rubbing salt in? ~ Iranian Proverbs
The water from the river becomes salty when it reaches the ocean. ~ Sanskrit Proverbs
Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~ Italian Proverbs
Salt water and absence wash away love. ~ Traditional Proverb
The smallest pepper is hottest. ~ Malawian Proverbs
Scratch an old woman’s back and she will let you taste her pepper pot. ~ Jamaican Proverbs
Three things are good in small doses and bad in big ones: yeast, salt, and hesitation. ~ Hebrew Proverb
Salt will never be worm-eaten. ~ Arabian Proverb
With fortune on your side you can sow salt and harvest grass. ~ Kurdish Proverbs
Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it. ~ English Proverbs
Don’t buy the salt if you haven’t licked it yet. ~ Congolese Proverbs
Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him. ~ Romanian Proverb
If there are two cooks in one house, the soup is either too salty or too cold. ~ Iranian Proverb
Giving advice to a stupid man is like giving salt to a squirrel. ~ Kashmiri Proverb
Friendship does not need pepper to cry. ~ Congolese Proverb
Don’t slaughter more pigs than you can salt. ~ French Proverbs
Let the salad-maker be a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a statesman for salt, and a madman for tossing. ~ Spanish Proverb
If I peddle salt, it rains; if I peddle flour, the wind blows. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Man is like pepper — you only know him when you’ve ground him. ~ Nigerian Proverb
You can better drink from a small well with soft water than from the salty sea. ~ Georgian Proverbs
It’s as difficult to win love as to wrap salt in pine needles. ~ American Proverbs
Quotations about Salt
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. ~ Nelson Mandela
Business is the salt of life. ~ Jeff Rich
A day without an argument is like an egg without salt. ~ Angela Carter
You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you’re never going to please everybody. ~ Yolanda Adams
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. ~ William Hazlitt
Adding salt to desserts helps to balance and pronounce flavors. ~ Johnny Iuzzini
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
Wit – the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. ~ Ambrose Bierce
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Salt is one of the flavors that makes food taste good – salt, sugar and fat. So it’s a natural thing for all chefs and cooks to add salt, because it enhances the flavor of the food. If you go out to eat, I guarantee you’re going to be eating a lot of salted foods that you are going to have no idea. ~ Brett Hoebel
To grow a tomato or a pepper and prepare a meal from your labor and care is primordially satisfying. ~ Nell Newman
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. ~ Isak Dinesen
The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture. ~ Antonio Tabucchi
