Between good sense and good
taste there lies the difference
between a cause and its effect.
?Jean De La Bruyère
A spoon does not know the taste of soup,
nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
?Welsh Proverb
Genius creates, and taste preserves.
Taste is the good sense of genius;
without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
?François-René de Chateaubriand
Fish, to taste right, must swim 3 times --
in water, in butter and in wine.
?Polish Proverb
It is good taste, and good taste
alone, that possesses the power to
sterilize and is always the first
handicap to any creative functioning.
?Salvador Dali
Revenge is a dish that tastes better cold.
?Proverb
Good taste is better than bad taste,
but bad taste is better than no taste.
?Arnold Bennett
Could we teach taste or genius
by rules, they would
be no longer taste and genius.
?Joshua Reynolds
Good taste is the first refuge of
the non creative. It is the last
ditch stand of the artist.
?Marshall Mcluhan
I base most of my fashion
taste on what doesn't itch.
?Gilda Radner
Civilization is merely an advance
in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer
things, and rejecting nasty ones.
?Katherine F. Gerould
Nobody ever went broke underestimating
the taste of the American public.
?Henry Louis Mencken
