A hungry man smells meat afar off. [ Proverb ]

Praise from an enemy smells of craft. [ Milton ]

Every tub smells of the wine it holds. [ Proverb ]

Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Oh, my offence is rank; it smells to heaven. [ William Shakespeare ]

The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet. [ Vespasian ]

Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong. [ Ouida ]

He who comes from the kitchen smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant; the college air pursues the student; and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary pedants. [ Lavater ]

The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing. [ William Shakespeare ]

A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the songs of the Nile, and Cadiz; who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes; who idles away the whole day among the chairs of the ladies and is ever whispering into some one's ear; who reads little billets-doux from this quarter and that, and writes them in return; who avoids ruffling his dress by contact with his neighbors sleeve, who knows with whom everybody is in love; who flutters from feast to feast, who can recount exactly the pedigree of Hirpinus. What do you tell me? is this a beau, Cotilus? Then a beau, Cotilus, is a very trifling thing. [ Martial ]