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 […]
Smells - Smelling Quotes
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the flower leaves on the heel of the one that crushed it.
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.
My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings, And yet recalls the very hour ‘Twas noon by yonder village tower, And on the last blue noon in May The wind came briskly up this way, Crisping the brook beside the road; Then, pausing here, set down its load, […]
It’s a sad woman who buys her own perfume.
