Odor quotes
41 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing."
"There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted."
"You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace."
"In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense."
"A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator."
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"Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor."
"When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy."
"Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age."
"To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat."
"A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers."
"Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue."
