“The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the great simplicities, which they relish both from appetite and from the challenge these offer to skill in competition with popular art.” MenArtArtistLostChallengesAwarenessTasteOffersSkillsCompetitionInstinctSimplicityAppetiteRelish Author:Jacques Barzun
“There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature to have his strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. He who plants a tree looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. Nothing could be less selfish than this.” ThinkingLooksAgeStrongSimpleTreeSonSweetTastePurePlantArguingSelfishForestsGenerousGloriousPosterityRelishCultivationHardyPlant A TreeVegetation Author:Washington Irving
“Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.” PeopleThinkingMenDoeHappinessDesireEnjoyTasteLovelyDesirableRelish Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more bear reasoning upon than the relish of the palate or the choice of colors.” SelfChoicesColorBearsSelf LoveTastePhilosophicalInspiredPhilosopherIndifferenceReasoningPreferenceRelishFondnessPalate Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Indian men are still used to the traditional role given to women; they want intelligent girls for company but not to marry... they have yet to taste and relish the company of mature women.” MenWantStillsMotivationalUsedGirlGivenCompanyRolesTasteIntelligentTraditionalIndianMatureRelishIntelligent Girl Author:Amrita Pritam
“Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman.” WorldHouseBloodTasteAdmireGentleKnivesRelish Author:John Cheever
“A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.” GivingProblemReadingKeysTasteCapacityAccessFacilityRelishSolved ProblemsUnsolved ProblemsTeachability Book:Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings Source: Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings
“Every real thing is a joy, if only you have eyes and ears to relish it, a nose and tongue to taste it.” IfsRealEyeJoyTasteEarsTongueNosesReal ThingsRelish Author:Robert Farrar Capon