Domination Quote by Ambrose Bierce

INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around…

— Ambrose Bierce

Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.

— Mary Russell Mitford

Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.

— Horace

In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended to weak…

— Samuel Johnson

Taste, like identity, has value only when there are differences,

— Carlo Petrini

“Clashes of taste are an inevitable by-product of a world where forces continually fragment and deplete us in new ways.”

— Alain de Botton

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

— Ogden Nash

“...the more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life. And we, wrapped round…

— Maxim Gorky

We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.

— Sigmund Freud

Sexual excitability is increased and leads to hasty engagements, marriages by the newspaper, improper love-adventures, conspicuous behaviour, fondness for dress, on theother hand to…

— Emil Kraepelin

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.

— R. Scott Bakker