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• Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.

  King James I

  Marijuana, Smoking, Brain

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• The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.

  Martin Bashir

  Years, Asking, Literature

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• I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.

  Barbra Streisand

  Trust, Mirrors, Enough

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• Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

  Herbert Spencer

  Marriage, Gentleman, Fingers

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• The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

  Joseph Conrad

  Peace, Mean, Racism

  Heart of Darkness ch. 1 (1902)

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• Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.

  Oriana Fallaci

  People, Voting, Faces

  "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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• There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

  Sally Field

  Beautiful, Feels

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• I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights.

  Steve Israel

  Christmas, Frustration, Light

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• Life can make you do many things, even kiss a man with a runny nose.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Kissing, Men

  "Mikhail Kalashnikov: 'I sleep soundly'". Interview with Nick Paton Walsh, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2003.

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• The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

  Garrison Keillor

  Inspirational, Brother, Sibling

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• My nose isn't big. I just happen to have a very small head.

  Jimmy Durante

  Portraiture, Bigs, Happens

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• I tried sniffing Coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose.

  Dave Barry

  God, Ice, Stupidity

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• Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an 'inconvenience.' We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there.

  Frank Zappa

  Government, Democracy, Tests

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• We look down our noses at people who've made mistakes in relationships. She's so stupid! How could she do that! Our superiority makes us feel better. But I’d bet everything I have on the fact that people to claim to have a perfect record in love are either lying or have very limited dating experience. People who say, I’d never do that! Someday, unless you are very, very lucky, you’ll have a story to tell. Or not to tell.

  Deb Caletti

  Mistake, Lying, Stupid

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• What always staggers me is that when people blow their noses, they always look into their hankies to see what came out. What do they expect to find?

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Humor, Blow

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• God wiped snot out of his nose and that was you.

  Stephen King

  Stephen King (2008). “The Shining”, p.61, Anchor

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• I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Food, Men, Cooking

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1771). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.258

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• Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.

  Laurence Olivier

  Theatre, Audience

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• The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.

  William Shakespeare

  Tears, Innocence, Innocent

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Romeo and Juliet. As you like it”, p.382

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• Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years.

  Conan O'Brien

  Rocks, Years, Rock And Roll

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• A great nose may be an index Of a great soul

  Edmond Rostand

  Soul, May, Great Souls

  Edmond Rostand (2000). “Cyrano De Bergerac”

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• The world is a grindstone and life is your nose

  Fred Allen

  Life, World, Grindstone

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• I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Life, Thankful

  "Positive Words, Powerful Results". Book by Hal Urban (p. 105), 2004.

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• Any nose may ravage with impunity a rose.

  Robert Browning

  Flower, Rose, May

  'Sordello' (1840) bk. 6, l. 881

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• Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don't pick your nose.

  Jef Mallett

  World, What You Love, Better Place

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