#smell

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#coffin #cynic #flowers #looks #man

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#better #cabbage #concludes #idealist #make

When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay. ↗

— Octave Mirbeau

#decay #give #naked #off #people

I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant. ↗

— Clive Owen

#find #i #lot #masculine #means

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#example #feel #for example #like #people

MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way. ↗

— Henry Spencer

#just #smells #way

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. ↗

— John Betjeman

#childhood #dark #grows #hour #measured

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#cares #catch #door #else #fire

Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#always #bad #cabin #coffee #served

I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#ambition #behind #conscious #fiercely #i