Common Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

— Miguel de Cervantes

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

— Miguel De Cervantes

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

— Aristotle

Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him.

— George Herbert

Salt represents the civilized: it requires know-how to get it, and a sophisticated combination of cooking and spoilt, jaded appetites to need it.

— Margaret Visser

“Like attention, praise and porn, salt is one of those instant gratifiers that are easy to get too much of and hard to get…

— Josh Ozersky

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

— Oliver Goldsmith

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Friendship means to be a strong hand in the dark to another in the time of need.

— Hugh Black

I went to a restaurant with my friend, and he said, "Pass the salt." I said, "Screw you! Sit closer to the salt."

— Mitch Hedberg

“For it is not needful, to use a common proverb, that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to learn that its water…

— Irenaeus of Lyons