The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.

You have to ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.

The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

I'm quite deaf now; such a comfort.

The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.

To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.

None so deaf as he that will not hear.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

What can give us surer knowledge than our senses? With what else can we better distinguish the true from the false?

The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas; and you could smell the river and really smell the people, and mud, and molasses, and every kind of tropical exhalation, with your nose suddenly removed from the dry ices of a Northern winter.

Nothing awakens a reminiscence like an odour.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

The soul may be a mere pretense, the mind makes very little sense. So let us value the appeal of that which we can taste and feel.

It was a rich compound of whiskey, after-shave lotion, shoe polish, woolens, and the rankness of a mature male.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

The sweetest sounds to mortals given Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.