Human saliva contains histatins, which speed wound closure…

Saliva has antibacterial properties. It also has things called nerve growth factor, skin growth factor, histatins which help with wound closure. So when you…

— Mary Roach

“Could thorough chewing lower the national debt? If saliva is full of bacteria, why do animals lick their wounds? Why don’t suicide bombers smuggle…

— Mary Roach

“Here is what William Beaumont had to say about saliva: “Its legitimate and only use, in my opinion, is to lubricate the food to…

— Mary Roach

People are surprisingly off put just by saliva, the substance that you carry around in your mouth. You swallow it. You have no objection…

— Mary Roach

“A few joints are circulating around, saliva-liva-liva-liva-liva.”

— Tom Wolfe

“I liken kissing baby cheeks to kissing stripper boobies. They’re both irresistible, but you’re bound to catch something. Scientists say there’s at least an…

— J. Matthew Nespoli

And an airplane of spittle dived into the sea, there were no salivas.

— Tommy Cooper

“—¿Me encuentras linda? —repetí, tragando saliva. Él me miró con extrema seriedad, como de costumbre. —Creo que eres hermosa. —¿Hermosa? —Tanto que a veces…

— Richelle Mead

I swing my arms to loosen myself up. Place my fists on my hips. then drop them to my sides. Saliva's filling my mouth…

— Suzanne Collins

Of course, certain religious expressions are fine. If a tribe of Aqualishes wants to boil rhino horns in frog saliva on the National Mall…

— Kathleen Parker

“I’m useless in water. I wake up at night drowning in my own saliva.”

— Karl Pilkington

Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs…

— Dylan Thomas

Polly Jean, I love you. I love the texture of your skin, the taste of your saliva, the softness of your ears. I love…

— Nick Cave

“Since Pawlow and his pupils have succeeded in causing the secretion of saliva in the dog by means of optic and acoustic signals, it…

— Jacques Loeb

His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers.

— Chuck Palahniuk