My teacher told me of this phrase "you can't argue with taste" while we were doing our logic unit.

Question

does anyone know the original speaker or text (i thought it was latin but i do not know) probably something along the lines of

tu non potest arguere *** tastum. haha

Answer 1

De gustibus non est disputandum.

(You should not argue about taste.)

It's a latin proverb.  I don't know that it's attributed to any one speaker.

Answer 2

e gustibus non est disputandum "there is not to be discussion regarding tastes"

Less literally "In matters of taste there is no dispute" or simply "There's no arguing taste". A similar expression in English is "There's no accounting for taste".

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, without attribution, renders the phrase as de gustibus non disputandum; the verb "to be" is

often assumed in Latin, and is rarely required.