"If you ain't got a fat woman, you're making a big mistake, because a big fat woman tastes as good as a T-bone steak."
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"Bad taste makes the day go by faster."
"My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic."
"Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes."
"To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or forfeit, causes, as the taste dies, joy."
"You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept."
"Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things."
"All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting."
"Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste."
"The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost."
"Truth is disputable, not human taste."
"Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery."
"As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite wretching or vomitting in some persons."
"It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise."
"Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."
"Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason."
"Men lose their tempers in defending their taste."
"We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with."
"A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes."
"Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?"