Famous quotes containing the words nose and/or picking:
“Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.”
—English proverb, collected in George Herbert’s Outlandish Proverbs (1640)
“In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)