Dentist Quotes - Page 2

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

  Joseph Heller

  Funny, Happiness, Laughter

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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, Dental Work

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• There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache.

  Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

  Health, Sacrifice, Things In Life

  The Caxtons Pt XI, Ch. VII

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• Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Dark, Teeth

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• Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

  Peter Tork

  Musician, Energy, Too Late

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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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• Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me 'Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet.

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Filing Cabinet

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

  Richard Baxter

  Funny, Dental Work, Teeth

  Poetical Fragments 'Man'

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• I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.

  Mark Haddon

  Running, Writing, Gay

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.

  Joseph Barbera

  Choices, Teeth, Endure

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Guy, Way, Conservative

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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, Dental Work, Appreciate

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

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• I am keeping with tradition today. After I learned of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dentist, so today, let's make it the orthodontist.

  Frankie Muniz

  Nominations, Today, Golden

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

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• The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind.

  H. L. Mencken

  Drinking, Men, Wind

  H. L. MENCKEN (1924). “PREJUDICES FOURTH SERIES”

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• When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist.' I played the dentist, and I had my friend play a patient. It was sort of what can go wrong at the dentist, and I just remember I had lots of fake blood and everything.

  Trey Parker

  Blood, Play, Fake

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• Put your money where your mouth is.

  John Sheridan

  Saving Private Ryan, Teeth, Mouths

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• For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.

  Russell Banks

  Average, Able, Accountants

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• My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Father, Passion, Cinematography

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• But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Sitting, Lines

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• It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.

  Vincent Canby

  Teeth, Might, Dental

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• You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth.... Your every past action and thought have made you what you are.

  Charles R. Johnson

  Past, Teeth, Needs

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• I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.

  Patricia Richardson

  Kids, Doctors, Play

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

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• A dentist is only half the doctor he claims to be.

  Joshua Ferris

  Doctors, Half, Claims

  "To Rise Again At A Decent Hour". Book by Joshua Ferris, www.npr.org. May 13, 2014.

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• Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

  Clifford Stoll

  Funny, Meaningful, Witty

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• A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

  Herb Caen

  Wisdom, Cutting, Men

  "Quotable Quotes". Reader's Digest, p.144, March 31, 1997.

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