different strokes for different folks

English

Proverb

different strokes for different folks

1. Different people like different things; there's no accounting for taste.
   • November 1966, Muhammed Ali, interview before a fight with Cleveland Williams, explaining his knock-out punches against Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson:

     "I got different strokes for different folks."

Translations

there's no accounting for taste — see there's no accounting for taste

See also

• horses for courses