Dental Work Quotes

• Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.

  George D. Prentice

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

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

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Teeth, Dentist

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

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• Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Funny, Men, Teeth

  Don Quixote I, Ch. 4 (1605)

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• There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

  William Shakespeare

  Philosophical, Endurance, Philosopher

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 5, sc. 1, l. 35

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• If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.

  Mason Cooley

  Funny, Ideas, Office

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• An aching tooth is better out than in.
  To lose a rotting member is a gain.

  Richard Baxter

  Funny, Teeth, Rotting

  Poetical Fragments 'Man'

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• A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.

  Helen Rowland

  Men, Teeth, Lasts

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• 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

  Funny, Years, Teeth

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• I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It's the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women fully appreciate.

  Graham Greene

  Men, Appreciate, Gold

  Graham Greene (1980). “Travels with my aunt”

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  Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Happiness, Being Happy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.

  George D. Prentice

  Funny, Looks, Mouths

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• The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.

  Leonard Woolf

  Funny, Pain, People

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• I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?

  Paul Merton

  Funny, Humorous, Air

  "Are these Britain's greatest wits ... or twits?" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2007.

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• Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

  Mark Twain

  Mom, Baby, Children

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 4, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

  Joseph Heller

  Funny, Happiness, Laughter

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• Darla [from Buffy The Vampire Slayer] wasn't Darla in the beginning, by the way. Darla was just Vampire Girl #1. But I just started adding a little bit of glee and joy into everything she did and just relied on the fact that the prosthetic does the work. And then I didn't have to be scary. The prosthetic was scary enough. I just had to smile and show off Darla's really great dental work.

  Julie Benz

  Girl, Joy, Scary

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father.

  John Green

  Father, Hate, Passion

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.22, Penguin

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• I got some real rough dental work done not long ago, and my mouth's still numb right here [points to the left side of his chin]. So it kind of messes with my speech a little bit, so don't y'all think that I took too many cos I haven't.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Motivation, Real, Thinking

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• I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't pay for the dental work he needed.

  Matthew Lesko

  Military, War, Giving

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• I am terribly British. Especially in the eyes of Americans. I drink several gallons of tea a day, I'm often excessively polite and it's only through many years of expensive and painful dental work that I don't have bad teeth.

  Rhianna Pratchett

  Eye, Years, Tea

  Source: www.thatvideogameblog.com

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• I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, Dental Floss, Done

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