Taste

Taste

Taste, gustatory perception, or gustation is one of the five traditional senses. Taste is the sensation produced when a substance in the mouth reacts chemically with receptors of taste buds.

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Famous quotes containing the word taste:

    “[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste—or is but half taste.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “Carlyle has not the simple Homeric health of Wordsworth, nor the deliberate philosophic turn of Coleridge, nor the scholastic taste of Landor, but, though sick and under restraint, the constitutional vigor of one of his old Norse heroes.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)