Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. The children in our elementary schools...

Such and so various are the tastes of men.

I’m very eclectic in my music tastes – anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.

At the very least, my tastes are out of the ordinary.

Tastes change, Cherie. I find the older I get the more I like to be reminded of my youth.

To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind.

I’m a bit suspicious of people who are narrow in their musical tastes.

Still, who could say what men ever were looking for? They looked for what they found; they knew what pleased them only when they saw it.

I like reality. It tastes like bread.

They should make bubblegum that tastes like mashed potatoes. You know, for lovers.

I have very old-fashioned tastes.

We say cat tastes like chicken when, had we been weaned on kitten stew, we’d say chicken tastes like cat.