Some books are only cursorily to be tasted of. [ Fuller ]

No man knows himself till he hath tasted of both fortunes. [ Proverb ]

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. [ Lord Bacon ]

Laurie got offended that I used the word puke. But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life. [ Lavater ]

Women are like melons: it is only after having tasted them that we know whether they are good or not. [ F. Soulie ]

Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. [ Bolingbroke ]

Most women spend their lives in robbing the old tree from which Eve plucked the first fruit. And such is the attraction of this fruit, that the most honest woman is not content to die without having tasted it. [ O. Feuillet ]