Quotes about Preferences
Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.
— Alexander Hamilton
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A difference of taste in jokes, is a great strain on the affections.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Opinions are preferences amid options. Convictions are woven into one's conscience.
— Ravi Zacharias
Christians have a way of crouching in their own culture instead of penetrating the one they live in with the gospel. Too many migrate to a faith that elevates issue debate and substitutes a set of personal preferences for the glorious gospel.
— James MacDonald
Men of different tastes have different pursuits.
— Cicero