Noses

Noses are an organ on the face, and in particular a protuberance in vertebrates that houses the nostrils, which admit and expel air for respiration in conjunction with the mouth, and also house receptors for detecting smells. In humans, the nose is located centrally on the face; on most other mammals, it is on the upper tip of the snout.

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Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 561.

• Jolly nose! there are fools who say drink hurts the sight,
  Such dullards know nothing about it;
  'Tis better with wine to extinguish the light
  Than live always in darkness without it.
  • Paraphrase of Olivier Basselin's Vaux-devire. Quoted by Ainsworth in Jack Sheppard, Volume I, p. 213.

• As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
  • Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III, Section III. Memb. 4. Subsec. I.

• Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,… when I want any good head-work done I choose a man—provided his education has been suitable—with a long nose.
  • Napoleon, Related in Notes on Noses, p. 43. (Ed. 1847).

• Plain as a nose in a man's face.
  • François Rabelais, Works. The Author's Prologue to the Fifth Book.