Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.
George HerbertRead
Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Bread and salt represent the basic essentials of life, highlighting their importance and simplicity.
This quote by George Herbert emphasizes the significance of basic sustenance in our lives. It illustrates that among all sensory experiences, the simple acts of smelling freshly baked bread and tasting salt are profoundly essential, reminding us of the comfort and necessity that these foundational elements of our diet offer.
Themes
BreadSaltFoodEssentialsLife
In practice
Example use cases
This quote could be used in a speech about the importance of basic nutrition.
More from George Herbert
All quotes βThe wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.
George HerbertRead
Living well is the best revenge.
George HerbertRead
Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend on such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man's hands to set the tables, still he would not be certain to win the game.
George HerbertRead
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
George HerbertRead
For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.
George HerbertRead
Similar quotes
A Hamburger is warm and fragrant and juicy. A hamburger is soft and nonthreatening. It personifies the Great Mother herself who has nourished us from the beginning. A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes. A hamburger is companionable and faintly erotic. The nipple of the Goddess, the bountiful belly-ball of Eve. You are what you think you eat.
Tom RobbinsRead
My work has gotten more political over time, but once you start exploring food, you find you're up against economics and politics and psychology and anthropology, all of these different things you have to deal with.
Michael PollanRead
Food has always been in my life. Being born in Ethiopia, where there was a lack of food, and then really cooking with my grandmother Helga in Sweden. And my grandmother Helga was a cook's cook.
Marcus SamuelssonRead
I won't eat in a restaurant with filthy bathrooms. This isn't a hard call. They let you see the bathrooms. If the restaurant can't be bothered to replace the puck in the urinal or keep the toilets and floors clean, then just imagine what their refrigeration and work spaces look like.
Anthony BourdainRead
I'm engaged in food on so many levels, and I love that. So my work, my craft, is around food, and writing is one aspect of it; communicating a narrative, cooking online is one aspect of it; solving the food chasm that we have in Harlem and finding a farmers market is another one, and all of them are equally exciting for me.
Marcus SamuelssonRead
In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinRead