“Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.”
Horace
“A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse”
Irish Sayings
“Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances”
William Powell
“I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.”
Lord Byron
“When you are old and grey and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.”
W.B. Yeats
“And see all sights from pole to pole, / And glance, and nod, and bustle by; / And never once possess our soul / Before we die.”
Matthew Arnold
“with a nod and a wink.”
Keith Richards