Tasting Quotes:

One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Adversity, Firsts, Tasting

Nature is about smelling, hearing, tasting, seeing.

- Richard Louv

source: Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.52, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Nature, Hearing, Tasting

There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.

- Henry James

source: Henry James (2015). “The Wings of the Dove (Unabridged Edition – Volume 1&2): Classic Romance Novel from the famous author of the realism movement, known for Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Princess Casamassima, The Bostonians, The American…”, p.20, e-artnow

topic: People, Eating, Tasting

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

- W. C. Fields

topic: Funny, Witty, Humorous, Yummy, Delicious Food

The older I get, the better I used to be.

- Lee Trevino

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Golf, Used, Best Wine, Cabernet, Wine And Life

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

- Joan Collins

topic: Funny, Birthday, Wine, Wine And Age, Wine And Life

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

- Louis Pasteur

topic: Wine, Health, Hygiene, Vineyards, Old Wine

Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.

- Andre Simon

topic: Wine, Meals, Tables, Vineyards, Best Wine

Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

- Michael Broadbent

source: Michael Broadbent (1984). “The Complete Guide to Wine Tasting and Wine Cellars”, Simon & Schuster

topic: Drinking, Wine, Good Company, Vineyards, Best Wine

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

- Clifton Fadiman

source: Clifton Fadiman, Sam Jay Aaron, Darlene Geis (1977). “Wine Buyers Guide”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

topic: Wine, Bottles, Lovers, Vineyards, Gregarious

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

- Kate Moss

source: "Kate Moss's motto gives comfort to 'pro-anorexic' community" by Alexandra Topping, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2009.

topic: Fashion, Taste, Skinny, Fashion Industry, Good Taste

The older I get, the better I was.

- Van Dyke Parks

topic: Vineyards, Cabernet, Wine And Life, Wine Lovers, Food And Wine

Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Appreciation, Wine, May, Vineyards, Best Wine

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Appreciation, Wine, Civilization, Best Wine, Old Wine

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Love, Inspirational, Funny, Ale, Lager

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

- Homer

topic: Wise, Wine, Sage, Vineyards, Old Wine

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Wine, Drunk, Matter, Wine Tasting, Drinking Too Much

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

- Louise Erdrich

source: "The Painted Drum". Book by Louise Erdrich, www.npr.org. 2005.

topic: Love, Life, Strength, Life Is Complicated, Hurting Yourself

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Fear, Live To The Fullest, Inspirational Adventure

Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

- Alfred Austin

source: "Fictional character: Alex Blake". "Criminal Minds". Season 8, Episode 5: "The Good Earth", www.imdb.com. October 31, 2012.

topic: Horse, Food, Journey, Slow Food, Inspirational Gardening

My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.

- Rumi

topic: Heart, Garden, Delight, Disapproving, Tasting

And then when she takes him through the whole wine tasting process, finishing with a long, languid taste that she really enjoyed “she opened her eyes and saw Nick staring at her. “I feel like I need a cigarette and a shower after watching that.

- Julie James

topic: Eye, Wine, Long, Wine Tasting, Tasting

Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt. Neighbor. Hunter. Tribute. Ally. I'll add it to the list of words I use to try to figure you out. The problem is, I can't tell what's real anymore, and what's made up.

- Suzanne Collins

topic: Real, Enemy, Trying, Katniss And Peeta, Katniss Peeta

i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay great happening illimitably earth) how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any--lifted from the no of all nothing--human merely being doubt unimaginable You? (now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

- e. e. cummings

topic: Dream, Eye, Gay, Amazing Day, Tasting

Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.

- Alexandre Dumas

source: Alexandre Dumas (2013). “The Count of Monte Cristo: A Story of Hope, Justice, Vengeance, Mercy, Forgiveness and Death (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.581, Lulu Press, Inc

topic: Running, Hatred, Risk, Draught, Tasting

Ooo, let’s see, I need to get my spicy barbecue sauce. Definitely some oven mitts, ‘cause he’s gonna be hot from being flame-broiled. I need to get a couple of them apple trees to make wood chips so the meat be nice and appley tasting. Give it that extra yumminess, ‘cause I don’t like that Daimon flavor. Ack! (Simi)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

source: Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dance With the Devil”, p.8, Macmillan

topic: Couple, Nice, Flames, Spicy, Barbecue Sauce

Boys and girls hid in the library stacks or behind the gym and flew at each other with no promise of love or even kindness, tasting one another in clumsly attempts to steal pleasure before they could be hurt or hated.

- Laura Whitcomb

source: Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Girl, Hurt, Kindness, Tasting

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

- Anthony Bourdain

source: "The Hot Seat: No Reservations host Anthony Bourdain". Interview with Sarah Bruning, www.timeout.com. September 3, 2012.

topic: Flavor, Asia, Firsts, Southeast Asia, Used To Love

Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake.

- Jack Kerouac

source: Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.145, Penguin

topic: Thinking, Orange, Touching, Make Out, Tasting

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Nietzsche, Graham Parkes (2008). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody”, p.101, Oxford University Press

topic: Taste, Life Is, Disputes, Taste Of Life, Tasting

Hers was a memory made up of snapshorts: being dragged through the snow by a pack of wolves, first kiss tasting of oranges, saying goodbye behind a cracked windshield. A life made up of promises of what could be: the possibilities contained in a stack of college applications, the thrill of sleeping under a strange roof, the future that lay in Sam's smile. It was a life I didn't want to leave behind. It was a life I didn't want to forget I wasn't done with it yet. There was so much more to say.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Goodbye, Memories, Sleep, Memories Made, Tasting

Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

- Charles Caleb Colton

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Happy, Always Happy, Key To Happiness

You are daydreaming about the future because you have not tasted the present. Start tasting the present. Find out a few moments where you are simply delighting. Looking at the trees, just be the look. Listening to the birds, just be a listening ear. Let them reach to your deepest core. Let their song spread all over your being.

- Rajneesh

topic: Song, Future, Listening Ear, Tasting

Yes, expertise puts on in position to have further, cognitive pleasures, but these pleasures are distinct from the sensory pleasure of tasting wines

- Kent Bach

topic: Wine, Pleasure, Position, Cognitive, Tasting

Rocky is a poor Italian boy from a poor Italian family, and he appreciates the buck more than almost anybody. He's only got two halfway decent purses so far, and it was like a tiger tasting blood

- Rocky Marciano

topic: Boys, Italian, Blood, Italian Family, Tasting

But there is no such man; for, brother, men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it, Their counsel turns to passion, which before Would give preceptial medicine to rage, Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, Charm ache with air and agony with words.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1491, Oxford University Press

topic: Strong, Brother, Grief, Tasting

Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Travel, Kings, Men, Noblemen, Tasting

I began reading cook books when I was six, cause my father had hundreds of cook books in the kitchen. I was obsessed with cooking and tasting different recipes. I got lost in being a compulsive eater. It brought me much happiness. Sadness too, sure. But I have to say, and compulsive eaters will agree with me, for that few seconds that you're eating, food tastes just great.

- Richard Simmons

topic: Father, Book, Reading, Tasting, Happiness Sadness

The goal in tasting wine is not to "find" the same aromas and flavors some other taster is describing. If you hone your own perceptual abilities and develop the vocabulary to articulate them, you'll not only derive more pleasure from the wine itself, but also stimulate better communication between you and the friends who are sharing the bottle.

- Marvin Shanken

topic: Communication, Wine, Vocabulary, Tasting

A kiss! When all is said, what is a kiss? An oath of allegiance taken in closer proximity, a promise more precise, a seal on a confession, a rose-red dot upon the letter i in loving; a secret which elects the mouth for ear; an instant of eternity murmuring like a bee; balmy communion with a flavor of flowers; a fashion of inhaling each other's hearts, and of tasting, on the brink of the lips, each other's soul!

- Edmond Rostand

topic: Fashion, Flower, Taken, Tasting, Murmuring

Wine lovers know that putting some effort into understanding and appreciating wine pays big dividends. Skillful tasting unlocks wine's treasures. It adds an extra dimension to the basic routines of eating and drinking, turning a daily necessity into a celebration of life.

- Marvin Shanken

topic: Drinking, Wine, Appreciate, Wine Lovers, Eating And Drinking

Drinking wine is easy: tilt glass and swallow. Really tasting wine is more of a challenge. You need the proper tools and environment, the ability to concentrate, a good memory and a vivid imagination.

- Marvin Shanken

topic: Memories, Drinking, Wine, Vivid Imagination, Tasting

A god who gave us everything we wanted would be the most malevolent god of all. With an infantile curiosity, we insist on tasting the cockroach on the floor while our father is preparing a magnificent feast for us.

- Criss Jami

source: Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.9, Criss Jami

topic: Father, Curiosity, Cockroaches, Tasting

Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.

- Eugene O'Neill

topic: Drinking, Wine, Virtue, Wine Tasting, Chardonnay Wine

After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil.

- Karel Capek

topic: Flower, Butterfly, Dark, Spicy, Tasting

The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.

- Ted Allen

topic: Feelings, Cooking, Way, Tasting

I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.

- Ted Allen

topic: Wine, Cake, Ideas, Wine Tasting, Chocolate Cake

You do not need to be an expert, or even particularly interested in wine, in order to enjoy drinking it. But tasting is not the same as drinking. Drinking pleases, mellows, loosens the tongue and inhibitions; drinking wine with food is healthy and natural; drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

- Michael Broadbent

topic: Drinking, Wine, Order, Tasting, Inhibitions

A person is alive only to the degree that he or she is aware. To make the most of life we must constantly strive to be aware of the importance of being aware. Be aware of your senses and use them: So often we are distracted and unconscious of the riches our senses can pour into our lives. We eat food without tasting it, listen to music without hearing it, smell without experiencing the pungency of odors and the delicacy of perfumes, touch without feeling the grain or texture, and see without appreciating the beauty around us.

- Wilferd Peterson

topic: Smell, Appreciate, Feelings, Tasting