Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zadie Smith

For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.

Sharon Johnson

They were already vulnerable. This is just salt to the wound.

Joe Dumars

Any coach worth his salt will take a look at that and say, 'I'll take my chances with that'

Kajol

If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!

Terry Bradshaw

When I played for the Steelers and I got my bell rung, I'd take smelling salts and go right back out there.

Louisa May Alcott

Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.

Lord Byron

A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.

John Lancaster Spalding

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

James Castle

Anyplace worth its salt has a 'parking problem'

Henry Ward Beecher

Good-humor makes all things tolerable

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Good-humor is always a success.

Thomas Jefferson

What i value more than all things, good humor.

Louisa May Alcott

Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.

Miguel de Cervantes

Health and cheerfulness make beauty

Thomas Haliburton

Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease

Charles Dickens

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.

Charles Dickens

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

Charles Spurgeon

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.