Bread and salt have occupied mankind for a long time. Bread tastes good and fills you up, salt preserves and seasons our food. Both are fundamentally important and it is hard to imagine our daily lives without them. This may be one reason why idioms, proverbs and poems about bread and salt have been created all over the world. Here are a few selected examples:
People don't need freedom, they need bread.
- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
In a pinch, the sausage also tastes good without bread.
- Proverb
The bread of the others has seven crusts.
- From Switzerland
"Mum, Mum, I don't like my bread anymore!"
"My boy, eat your bread so that you grow big and strong!"
"Why should I grow big and strong?"
"So that you can do some proper work."
"What am I supposed to learn something proper for?"
"So that you can earn your own bread."
"But I don't like bread!"
- Calendar saying
"And the world seems barren and empty to you,
and the days are rough and heavy,
Be still and be mindful of change:
A lot of bread grows in the winter night."
- Friedrich Wilhelm Weber
If there is no cake, the bread tastes good too.
- From Hungary
Better half a loaf than no bread at all.
- From England
Better too much bread than too little wine.
- From Brazil
Man does not live by bread alone.
It can also be a little butter.
- Ulrich Erckenbrecht
Bread for the world, but the sausage stays here!
- Unknown
It's the bread that keeps you warm, not the fur.
- From Russia
Eating bread is not an art, but baking bread is.
- German proverb
Crumbs are also bread.
- German proverb
Friendship is the salt of life.
- German proverb
We are the salt in the chocolate soup.
- Dr. phil. Michael Richter
Salt and bread
makes cheeks red.
- German proverb
Contentment is the salt in the soup of the happy.
- Ernst Ferstl
Imagination is the salt in the soup of reason.
- Karl Kraus
Old goat also likes to lick salt.
- German proverb
On the table of morals, meekness is the salt.
- From Persia
Everyone wants to be the salt and no one wants to be the soup.
- Dr. phil. Michael Richter
Bread with salt will soothe a growling stomach.
- Horace (65 - 8 BC)
From the emperor to the beggar
no one can do without salt.
He doesn't bake bread without salt,
without salt we would suffer hardship.
God, you too give with a kind hand
a grain of salt in the mind.
- Popular goods
Words are like salt; it's the quantity that counts.
- Ernst R. Hauschka
Perfection is the salt in the soup.
Too much makes them inedible.
- Stefan Fleischer
The mind makes poetry as little as salt makes food, but it belongs to poetry as salt belongs to food.
- Friedrich Hebbel