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)
“Cripples, above all men, should be companionable, or, at least, refrain from picking a fellow-limper to pieces.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)