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Quotes of the Day for 14 April 2005 - Salt

It was on this day in 1930 that Jawaharlal Nehru, later to become the prime minister of India, was arrested by the British for abetting the manufacture of contraband salt. The following month, tens of thousands of Indians led by Mohandas Gandhi would start making their own salt to avoid paying the tax on salt which provided about 3% of the colonial budget.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
     - Jesse Jackson

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
     - Miguel de Cervantes, 1547 - 1616

The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
     - Rebecca West, 1892 - 1983

Wit, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
     - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1881 - 1906

You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled under foot.
     - Matthew 5:13

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.
     - Angela Carter, 1940 - 1992

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