Here are some proverbs and quotes about smelling and stinking.
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As dead flies give perfume a bad smell, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.Bible
Source: Ecclesiastes 10:1
Clothes I wear for mushroom hunting are rarely sent to the cleaner. They constitute a collection of odors I produce and gather while rambling in the woods.John Cage
Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water.(unknown author)
Crime leaves a trail like a water beetle; like a snail, it leaves its silver track; like a horse-mango, it leaves its smell.
Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.Miguel De Cervantes
Source: Don Quixote
Durian: tastes like heaven ... smells like hell.
Foul-smelling objects swarm with flies.
Goodness knows what the striking of matches and the smell of tobacco would have brought on him out of dark holes in that horrible place.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.Bible
How fair is your love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is your love than wine! and the smell of your ointments than all spices!Bible
Source: Song of Solomon
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.Bible
Source: Proverbs 7:17
I hope I never smell the smell of apples again!J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit – Chapter 10 – A warm welcome
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat; it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 1 - An Unexpected Party
This is how The Hobbit book begins.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.Henry Rollins
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
No matter if you eat a little or a lot of garlic, the smell is just as strong.
Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Religions are like farts. Yours is good, but everyone else’s stinks.Picket Fences
The garlic said to the onion: 'you stink.'
The mortar always smells of garlic.
The sandal tree perfumes the axe that fells it.
The world has changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost. For none now live who remember it.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: Movie: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.William Shakespeare
Your lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.Bible
Source: Song of Solomon
