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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

- Henry Adams

Talking is like playing on the harp, there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

- Marshall McLuhan

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

Taste is the feminine of genius.

- Edward Fitzgerald

Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

- Pablo Picasso

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

- William Morris

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

- Jean Cocteau

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.

- Queen Marie of Rumania

People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

- Samuel Butler

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an acquired one.

- Charles Lamb

Good taste and humour are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

- Thomas Jefferson

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

- Pauline Kael

One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.

- George Ade

Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.

- M. J. De Chenier

Everyone to his taste.

- French proverb

My tastes are aristocratic; my actions democratic.

- Victor Hugo

A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

- Napoleon

Good taste is the flower of good sense.

- Poincelot

The finer impulse of our nature.

- Friedrich von Schiller

Every man as he loveth, quoth the good man when he kissed the cow.

- John Heywood