The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re-recognition, for old memories and […]
Smells - Smelling Quotes
Those with congenital anosmia frequently insist that they have the same sense of taste that those with a normal olfactory sense have. If they were using the word “taste” in the very restricted way that psychophysicists do, that is, referring only to the gustatory sense, I would agree. In fact, I would even agree that […]
Cyrus collected together all the camels which had come in the train of his army to carry provisions, and mounted riders upon them… The horse has a natural dread of the camel, and cannot abide either the sight or the smell of that animal. The two armies then joined battle, and immediately, the Lydian war-horses, […]
I would rather smell of nothing than of perfume.
Perfume : any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
It all adds up to this, that when the hideous specter of body odor looms, all human ties are canceled. The offender, whether parent, spouse, or friend, puts himself outside the law. And when lovely woman stoops to B.O., she is a Medusa freezing every male within sniff. On the other hand, when scrubbed, deloused, […]
Nothing awakens a reminiscence like an odor.
Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
All these gods demanded praise, flattery, and worship. Most of them were pleased with sacrifice, and the smell of innocent blood has ever been considered a divine perfume.
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
