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)

    “Of all the flavors one eats, salt is indispensable; wherever one goes in the world, one’s mother is dearest.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.”
    —Thomas Mann (1875–1955)