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Teeth Quotes

Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.

Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

Snowdrops: Theirs is a fragile but hardy celebration... in the very teeth of winter.

Louise Beebe Wilder (1997). “What Happens in My Garden”, Hartley & Marks

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

"Books of the Times", New York Times, June 6, 1984.

If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.

Number 200 statement from the 282 provisions to the fees due to Medical Practitioners in the Code of Hammurabi

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

"Shostakovich: A Life". Book by Laurel Elizabeth Fay, p. 92, 2000.

I'll let you in on something big: I'm not a white-teeth teen.

Song: White Teeth Teens, Album: Pure Heroine, 2013

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 for every epoch.

Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.296, Courier Corporation

One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living.

"hakespeare Jest Books. Conceits, Clinches, Flashes and Whimzies", No. 84, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 188-89, 1922.

An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth.

Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.60, W. W. Norton & Company