Teeth Quotes

1314 quotes by 972 authors

Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York. — Elwyn Brooks White
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
As long as I have teeth, I'll keep playing. You can't play trumpet without teeth. — Lionel Ferbos
I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or… — William Shakespeare
Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted… — Ethel Smyth
My teeth are all my own. I've just finished paying for them. — Ken Dodd
Is old age really so terrible? Not if you've brushed your teeth faithfully. — Woody Allen
It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick. — Louis Kronenberger
Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless… — Max Lerner
My health plan doesn't cover dental, so I enrolled my teeth as 32 dependents, each needing a complete physical once a year. — Robert Breault
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor? — Charles Lenox Remond
They called me the sexiest economist in America, and that was years ago, when I had hair and body mass and my teeth were shiny. — Mark Zandi
A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to… — Martin Luther
Never do anything to a clitoris with your teeth that you wouldn't do to an expensive waterproof wristwatch. — P.J. O'Rourke
One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray… — Lisa Alther
I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow. — Jimmy Connors
Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one… — Paul Claudel

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