Tastes

Famous quotes containing the word tastes:

“Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)

“The poet’s body even is not fed like other men’s, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives a divine life. By the healthful and invigorating thrills of inspiration his life is preserved to a serene old age.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)