“ I was keen on sports-that's how my nose got this way. It's not actually broken; the nose was just pushed up a little bit and moved over. It's an aquiline nose, quite Irish. ”
- John Hurt- Copy
- 516
“ Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill and calling for larger spurs and brighter beaks. I fear that nationalism is one of England's many spurious gifts to the world. ”
- Richard Aldington- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape. ”
- Frank Moore Colby- Copy
- 1.8K
“ It is good for man To try all changes, progress and corruption, powers, peace and anguish, not to go down the dinosaur's way Until all his capacities have been explored: and it is good for him To know that his needs and nature are no more changed, in fact, in ten thousand years than the beaks of eagles. ”
- Robinson Jeffers- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. ”
- Sam Ewing- Copy
- 3K
“ Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. ”
- Max L. Forman- Copy
- 36
“ Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business. ”
- Paul Valery- Copy
- 697
“ Joy, temperance, and repose,Slam the door on the doctor's nose. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 971
“ Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 3.8K
“ A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. ”
- Herbert Spencer- Copy
- 47
“ Before I go out to take a picture of someone, I just stop at the city desk and say, 'Do you want him gazing out toward the sunset or picking his nose?'. ”
- Calvin Trillin- Copy
- 3.4K
“ O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot. ”
- Leone Levi- Copy
- 1.1K
“ To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don't pick your nose. ”
- Jeff Mallett- Copy
- 3.4K
“ A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 3.3K
“ And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 1.5K
“ If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same. ”
- Bob Golic- Copy
- 1.2K
“ A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2K
“ A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 1.3K
“ His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes — cats — I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, mine eyes the tail that wagg'd contempt at Fate. ”
- Sir William Watson- Copy
- 2.3K
“ I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things. ”
- George Gissing- Copy
- 1.1K
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