Taste Quotes - Page 23

Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.

"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are."

To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.

Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with any art, this selection is guided by taste, elegance, and metaphor; it is a matter of induction, rather than deduction. High science depends on this art.

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

Tis chiefly taste, or blunt, or gross, or fine, Makes life insipid, bestial, or divine. Better be born with taste to little rent Than the dull monarch of a continent; Without this bounty which the gods bestow, Can Fortune make one favorite happy? No.

There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]

Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

He tastes like mint and need, as he overpowers me with his tongue.

You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn't really looked at either painter's work. Taste is a blood sport.

Some say that he has no understanding of clouds, and that his ear wax tastes like Turkish Delight. All we know is he’s called the Stig.

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.

The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

Chicken is Good! It tastes like chicken.

It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.

It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

Taste is the next gift to genius.

As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.

I am willing to taste any drink once.

High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.

You ever taste some damn chicken so horrible, that you wished the chicken would show up at your house and show your lady how to cook him?