there's no accounting for taste

English

Proverb

there's no accounting for taste

1. When it comes to subjective matters of taste, people have wildly different opinions.
2. Disagreements about matters of taste can't be objectively resolved.

Synonyms

• to each his own
• de gustibus non est disputandum

See also

• one man's meat is another man's poison

Translations

people's tastes differ

• Armenian: ճաշակին ընկեր չկա (hy) (č̣ašakin ënker čka) (on taste there is no friend)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 人各有所好 (cmn) (rén gè yǒu suǒ hǎo)

• Czech: proti gustu žádný dišputát (cs)
• Danish: om smagen kan der ikke diskuteres (da)
• Dutch: over smaak valt niet te twisten (nl) (about taste, it's impossible to argue)
• Estonian: maitse üle ei vaielda (et)
• Finnish: makuasioista ei pidä kiistellä (fi)
• French: chacun ses goûts (fr) (or à chacun ses goûts (fr), à chacun son goût (fr)), des goûts et des couleurs, on ne discute pas (fr)
• Georgian: გემოვნებაზე არ დაობენ (ka) (gemovnebaze ar daoben)
• German: über Geschmack lässt sich nicht streiten (de)
• Hebrew: על טעם וריח אין להתוכח (he)

• Icelandic: smekkur manna er misjafn (is)
• Latin: de gustibus non est disputandum (la)
• Polish: o gustach się nie dyskutuje (pl)
• Portuguese: gosto não se discute (pt)
• Romanian: gusturile nu se discută (ro)
• Russian: о вкусах не спорят (ru) (o vkúsax ne spórjat) (one doesn't discuss tastes), на вкус и на цвет товарищей нет (ru) (na vkús i na cvet továriščej net) (on taste and color there are no friends), у каждого свой вкус — кто любит дыню, а кто — арбуз (ru) (u káždovo svoj vkus — kto ljúbit dýnju, a kto — arbúz) (everyone has his own taste, one likes melons, another likes watermelons)
• Slovak: proti gustu žiaden dišputát (sk)
• Spanish: para gustos hay colores (es)
• Swedish: smaken är som baken (sv)
• Turkish: zevklerle renkler tartışılmaz (tr), zevkler ve renkler tartışılmaz (tr) (Tastes and colors are not arguable)