“ Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. - Tremendous Trifles. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours. ”
- James Joyce- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. ”
- Margaret Atwood- Copy
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“ What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smells — and he smelled real nice. ”
- Sandra Bullock- Copy
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“ Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it, and that is all. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire — you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away. ”
- Denis Waitley- Copy
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“ Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little. ”
- Rachel Carson- Copy
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“ If it looks like shit, smells like shit, mail it to your enemy — he'll know what to do with it. ”
- Doug Horton- Copy
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“ We must not inquire too curiously into motives.... They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like victory. ”
- Francis Ford Coppola- Copy
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“ Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust. ”
- James Shirley- Copy
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“ Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers. ”
- Walter Hagen- Copy
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“ The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble lessons we would read. ”
- Christina G. Rossetti- Copy
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“ The violets were past their prime, Yet their departing breath Was sweeter, in the blast of death, Than all the lavish fragrance of the time. ”
- James Montgomery- Copy
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“ Razors pain you;Rivers are damp;Acids stain you;And drugs cause cramp;Guns aren't lawful;Nooses give;Gas smells awful;You might as well live. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
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“ Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself. ”
- James Van Der Zee- Copy
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“ Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. - John Steinbeck. ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
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“ I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink. ”
- Dame Edith Sitwell- Copy
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“ Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme,Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay;Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime,For oh, it is not always May! ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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