"He whose mouth is out of taste says…" — Michel de Montaigne
"He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat."
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649 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne has 649 quotes on this site.
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against…
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Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them.
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a…
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Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal…
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care…
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many…
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It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole,…
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
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More Flat Quotes
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When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
— Francis Bacon
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I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just…
— Erykah Badu
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I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything…
— Travis Barker
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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
— Henry Adams
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I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
— Ambrose Bierce
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You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the…
— Michael Bloomberg
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We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if you wear…
— Jo Brand
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I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it…
— Jimmy Buffett
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The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners…
— Herman Cain
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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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