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.

Famous quotes containing the word taste:

“Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one’s taste for choosing.”
—Jean Rostand (1894–1977)

“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)

“When love is broken,
then patched up
and cruelty is obvious,
like water boiled,
then cooled,
its taste goes flat.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)