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:

    “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)

    “There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.”
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    “They never taste who always drink;
    They always talk who never think.”
    —Matthew Prior (1664–1721)