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• The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Sarcastic, Children, Food

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• Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch remain excluded.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Art, Food, Sight

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1998). “Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art”, p.38, Oxford University Press

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• When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are
  broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.

  Marcel Proust

  Food, Past, Long

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.63, Wordsworth Editions

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• I like money. It's fun to fold and stack and smell and look at. It's just plain fun to count money, and I often do it in a loud falsetto while wearing nothing but a captain's hat and a coin changer.

  Dennis Miller

  Money, Fun, Looks

  Dennis Miller (2001). “I Rant, Therefore I Am”, p.20, Crown Forum

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• If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all the delights of the open world--on a final day on earth, I think I would choose these: the clear, ethereal song of a white-throated sparrow singing at dawn; the smell of pine trees in the heat of the noon; the lonely calling of Canada geese; the sight of a dragon-fly glinting in the sunshine; the voice of a hermit thrush far in a darkening woods at evening; and--most spiritual and moving of sights--the white cathedral of a cumulus cloud floating serenely in the blue of the sky.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Spiritual, Song, Lonely

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• Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can't say it's three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it's colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It's a quality, not a thing.

  Mickey Mantle

  Courage, Piano, Feet

  Mickey Mantle (1964). “The Quality of Courage”, p.28, U of Nebraska Press

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• He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.

  William Shakespeare

  Dance, Holiday, Eye

  'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. [71]

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• Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. That states the point.

  Wallace Stevens

  Flower, Rain, Dust

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.252, Vintage

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• I love the fall. I love it because of the smells that you speak of; and also because things are dying, things that you don't have to take care of anymore, and the grass stops growing.

  Mark Van Doren

  Love, Death, Fall

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• Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

  Dorothy Parker

  Suicide, Depressing, Gun

  "Resume" l. 5 (1926)

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• Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods.

  Thomas Boswell

  Baseball, Special, Cards

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• Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint,
  And sweet thyme true,
  Primrose, first born child of Ver,
  Merry Spring-time's harbinger.

  Francis Beaumont

  Sweet, Children, Spring

  Francis Beaumont (1887). “The Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher: Selected”

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• The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Spring, Reflection

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.200, Vintage

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• O the green things growing, the green things growing,
  The faint sweet smell of the green things growing!
  I should like to live, whether I smile or grieve,
  Just to watch the happy life of my green things growing.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Sweet, Spring, Happy Life

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “Green Things Growing”

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• Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Crush, Sweet, Adversity

  Oliver Goldsmith (1849). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume”, p.221

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• There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person. The person merely appears to be, like the space within the pot appears to have the shape and volume and smell of the pot.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Space, Identity, Shapes

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• The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

  Juvenal

  Sweet, Wealth, Clean

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• Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.

  Heywood Hale Broun

  Sports, Athlete, Sweat

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• We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Adventure, Needs, Wade

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• I, like almost all chemists I know, was also attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that slight but charismatic element of danger which is now banned from the classroom. I agree with those of us who feel that the wimpish chemistry training that schools are now forced to adopt is one possible reason that chemistry is no longer attracting as many talented and adventurous youngsters as it once did. If the decline in hands-on science education is not redressed, I doubt that we shall survive the 21st century.

  Harry Kroto

  Adventure, School, Hands

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• Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.

  Douglas Coupland

  Running, Thinking, Orange

  "Microserfs: Tran Shumanity" by Douglas Coupland, www.wired.com. July 1, 1995.

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• Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the coffee is black, thick, unsavory of smell, and execrable in taste. The bottom of the cup has a muddy sediment in it half an inch deep. This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour.

  Mark Twain

  Coffee, Aggravation, Black

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.380, Velvet Element Books

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• Coffee it is best to buy by the bag, as it improves by keeping. Let it hang in the bag, in a dry place, and it loses its rank smell and taste.

  Catharine Beecher

  Coffee, Bags, Dry

  Catharine Beecher (2013). “Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-Book”, p.231, Courier Corporation

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• Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Inspirational, Life, Congratulations

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and-one talks about it.

  Edward VII

  Wine, Taste, Drink

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