S'not The Way

Instinct is the nose of the mind. - Madame de Girardin

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

Lead the audience by the nose to the thought. - Laurence Olivier

Noise creates illusions. Silence brings truth. - Maxime Lagace

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail. - Buffy Sainte-Marie

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. - George Orwell

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. - Max L. Forman

This poor pumpkin gave in to rot,
and all that's left is pumpkin snot. - Shirley Thomas

If a door slams shut it means that God is pointing to an open door further on down. - Anna Delaney Peale

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday. - Ashley Jensen

After you cut off a person's nose there is no point in giving him a rose to smell. - Ravi Zacharias

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose. - Mark Twain

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

Thrusting my nose firmly between his teeth, I threw him heavily to the ground on top of me. - Mark Twain

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

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear. - Phil Hartman

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. - Louis Nizer

Remembering is a gift - a silent gift, because it roots us in reality while at the same time pointing us towards eternity. - Raphael Anzenberger

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins

That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears. - Peter Heller