Noses

"As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face."

"Se couper le nez pour faire dépit à son visage."

"François Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, Nikolai Gogol's Nos and, of course, fairy tales such as Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio and Wilhelm Hauff's Zwerg Nase are only some of the texts that feature prominent noses."

"When any one of you awakes from sleep . . . he must clean his nose three times, for the devil spends the night in the interior of one’s nose."

"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."

"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."

"Plain as a nose in a man's face."

"Suuri nenä on hyvä kasvojen suaja. (Urjala, Tavastia) (KNM)"