“Blood spurted from his nose. Okay, I couldn't help myself. I burst out laughing.”
Source: Alice in Zombieland
Source: How to Break a Dragon's Heart
“Blood spurted from his nose. Okay, I couldn't help myself. I burst out laughing.”
Source: Alice in Zombieland
“In the army it takes an eight-man working party to help a brass hat blow his nose.”
Source: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 30 (p. 153)
“He who cuts off his nose takes poor revenge for a shame inflicted on him.”
Male ulciscitur dedecus sibi illatum, qui amputat nasum suum.
De Hierosolymitana peregrinatione acceleranda (1189), cited from Mary Beth Rose (ed.) Women in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1986) p. 29; translation from John Simpson The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993) p. 55.
A similar proverb, Qui son nez cope deshonore son vis, appears in the late 12th century chanson de geste Garin le Loheren, line 2877.