Famous quotes containing the words nose and/or picking:
“My uncle Toby had scarce a heart to retalliate upon a fly.
Go,—says he, one day at dinner, to an over-grown one which had buzz’d about his nose ... go poor Devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee?—This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)