Taste Quotes - Page 22

There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.

Franklin P. Adams

Life, Success, Son

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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.

Pliny the Elder

Food, Garden, Smell

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The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets

Salvador Dali

Wine, Secret, Doe

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Nudity is undignified and an error of taste

Adolf Hitler

Errors, Nudity

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Never underestimate the bad taste of the American public

H. L. Mencken

Underestimate, Never Underestimate, Bad Taste

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It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method. The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. No sportsman however, will use anything but the fly, except when he happens to be alone.

Charles Dudley Warner

Sea, Fishing, Rivers

Charles Dudley Warner (1878). “In the Wilderness”, p.26, Syracuse University Press

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I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It is remarkable what a serious business men make of getting their dinners, and how universally shiftlessness and a groveling taste take refuge in a merely ant-like industry. Better go without your dinner, I thought, than be thus everlastingly fishing for it like a cormorant. Of course, viewed from the shore, our pursuits in the country appear not a whit less frivolous.

Henry David Thoreau

Country, Men, Lakes

Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention of mankind to any part of learning which time has left behind it, may be truly said to advance the literatures of his own age. As the manners of nations vary, new topicks of persuasion become necessary, and new combinations of imagery are produced; and he that can accommodate himself to the reigning taste, may always have readers who perhaps would not have looked upon better performances.

Samuel Johnson

Fashion, Writing, Mind

Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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There are three distinct kind of judges upon all new authors or productions; the first are those who know no rules, but pronounce entirely from their natural taste and feelings; the second are those who know and judge by rules; and the third are those who know, but are above the rules. These last are those you should wish to satisfy. Next to them rate the natural judges; but ever despise those opinions that are formed by the rules.

Samuel Johnson

Writing, Judging, Feelings

Samuel Johnson (1961). “The critical opinions of Samuel Johnson”

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First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?

Harold Ramis

Taste And Judgment, Goes On, Firsts

Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. May 13, 2003.

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Welcome to Bologna on Capital Gold for England versus San Marino with Tennent's Pilsner, brewed with Czechoslovakian yeast for that extra Pilsner taste and England are one down!

Jonathan Pearce

Football, Gold, Yeast

"The hardest FA Cup of all" by Barry Glendenning, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2003.

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Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly modernised to accord with contemporary taste it would almost certainly have been, or become, a work of lesser influence.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Atheism, Language, Influence

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As far as the media's concerned, Mrs. Obama deserves this. Look at the sordid past. Look at our slave past, look at the discriminatory past. It's only fair that people of color get their taste of the wealth of America too.

Rush Limbaugh

Stupid, Past, Media

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I have a little tradition that humbles me as a man that lets me know I'm a part of the field and a part of the game, and it's the very bottom as well as the very top. Yeah, it's going to be all over the internet. You know what? You should've seen some games before this. I'll tell you one thing, the grass at Tiger Stadium tastes best.

Les Miles

Men, Lsu, Games

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Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of the moment and what people will like right now; the idea is to somehow keep yourself in the public memory so that as taste evolves it will eventually come to embrace your thing. So, it's about writing to be remembered rather than writing to be liked.

Chuck Palahniuk

Memories, Writing, Ideas

Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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Say someone tells me their name - that name can turn into a taste or a color and that's how I categorize it in my mind. It's an easy way of categorizing things.

Ali Banisadr

Color, Names, Mind

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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I love eating out. I don't deny that. But I don't want 12 or 15 courses because the chef wants me to taste this or taste that. I just want to be able to decide.

Gordon Ramsay

Want, Able, Chef

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This letter [to the Romans] is truly the most important piece in the New Testament. It is purest Gospel. It is well worth a Christian's while not only to memorize it word for word but also to occupy himself with it daily, as though it were the daily bread of the soul. It is impossible to read or to meditate on this letter too much or too well. The more one deals with it, the more precious it becomes, and the better it tastes.

Martin Luther

Christian, Soul, Important

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It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Character, Common, Traits

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Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.

George Eliot

Men, Dresses, Opinion

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Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Creativity, Creative, Energy

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Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fancy

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.76

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Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

Michel de Montaigne

Ordinary, Mundane, Accustomed

Michel de Montaigne (1877). “The Essays of Montaigne”, p.425

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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.

Michel de Montaigne

Wine, Mouths, Flats

Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.838, Delphi Classics

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How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

William Lyon Phelps

Education, Wall, Order

William Lyon Phelps (2016). “A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More”, p.83, Read Books Ltd

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