Taste Quotes

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad taste in criticizing the man of the hour in Germany.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

We taste and suckle each other, and I'm so thirsty he could feed me his kiss all night and I'd still be dying in the desert.

Just as every drop of the ocean carries the taste of the ocean, so does every moment carry the taste of eternity.

Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!

Drugs allows us to taste the beyond but do not make us masters of the transcendental.

Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It's related to movies, to art, to young people's taste.

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

You get a taste here in New Orleans that you don't get anywhere else in the country.

Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.

Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can't send away for it in a catalogue. And I'm afraid it's becoming obsolete.

Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have a noble intelligence, but they are not men of taste.

Before you taste anything, recite a blessing.

Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients.

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.

Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.

Style is having the courage of one's choices and the courage to say no. It's good taste and culture.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.

I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.

I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt... They made their way through the machine... A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity and deep peace.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Anything you have to acquire a taste for was not meant to be eaten.

Many have paid lip service to philosophy, but these men served it with their whole heart. He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself.

If you had to eat another human to survive, do you think they'd taste like their ethnic background?

There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.

The most important thing in art is taste.

with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

Marmalade in the morning has the same effect on taste buds that a cold shower has on the body.

Hula is the art of Hawaiian dance, which expresses all we see, smell, taste, touch, feel, and experience. It is joy, sorrow, courage, and fear.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.

I think good taste is completely subjective. If you enjoy something, that's great! Enjoy it and don't let anyone tell you not to.

Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we can really experience and taste our full being.

a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.

I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.

A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste-it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against.

Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.

The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.