Pleasure tastes well after service. [ Proverb ]
All our tastes are but reminiscences. [ Lamartine ]
Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
No man can be a poet
That is not a good cook, to know the palates
And several tastes of the time. [ Ben Jonson ]
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours. [ Dryden ]
The absurd vulgar tastes all things by the ear. [ Proverb ]
My tastes are aristocratic; my actions democratic. [ Victor Hugo ]
Their is no disputing of tastes, appetites and fancies. [ Proverb ]
Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes. [ Rochefoucauld ]
A man's passions, tastes, and opinions are discovered by his admirations. [ C. Nodier ]
The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives. [ Stanislaus ]
Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses. [ Quarles ]
The tastes, affections, and sentiments are more absolutely the man than his talent or acquirements. [ Henry T. Tuckerman ]
Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely. [ Bulwer ]
The herb feeds upon the juice of a good soil, and drinks in the dew of heaven as eagerly, and thrives by it as effectually, as the stalled ox that tastes everything that he eats or drinks. [ South ]
He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is. [ Goethe ]
Simplicity and purity are the two wings by which man is lifted up above all earthly things. Simplicity is in the intention; purity in the affection. Simplicity tends to God, purity apprehends and tastes him. [ Thomas a Kempis ]
The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or library, is to look at his books. One gets the notion very speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance around his book-shelves. [ O. W. Holmes ]
The awakening of our best sympathies, the cultivation of our best and purest tastes, strengthening the desire to be useful and good, and directing youthful ambition to unselfish ends, - such are the objects of true education. [ J. T. Headley ]
We proudly say we are equal. In the largest sense before God we are, but in every other sense we are not. No two persons have the same gifts, the same tastes, the same habits. One must complement the other. It is a mutual life we lead in a mutual world. [ Caroline Hazard ]
A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
The mother, under whose sole influence the child is for years, from whom it acquires its tastes and character, should not only be educated, but educated in the most thorough manner, and have her mind stored with varied learning, so that she may be able to answer the multitude of questions that will be put to her by her inquisitive child on art, science, literature, and religion, and thus to stimulate his curiosity, and awaken his mind. [ E. B. Ramsay ]
A newspaper, like a theatre, must mainly owe its continuance in life to the fact that it pleases many persons; and in order to please many persons it will, unconsciously perhaps, respond to their several tastes, reflect their various qualities, and reproduce their views. In a certain sense it is evolved out of the community that absorbs it, and, therefore, partaking of the character of the community, while it may retain many merits and virtues, it will display itself, as in some respects ignorant, trivial, narrow, and vulgar. [ William Winter ]