Coarse Salt Company

Famous quotes containing the words coarse, salt and/or company:

    If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    It is terrible to die of thirst on the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it no longer—quenches thirst?
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “In your company a man could die,” I said, “a man could die and you wouldn’t even notice, there’s no trace of friendship, a man could die in your company.”
    Max Frisch (1911–1991)