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• There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Bible, Lazy People, Tears

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• Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

  Walter Bagehot

  Writing, Grinder, Divided

  'Estimates of some Englishmen and Scotchmen' (1858) 'The First Edinburgh Reviewers'

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• We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Wind

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

  Anatole Broyard

  Sticks, Aphorism, Novel

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

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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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• All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Depression

  "The Story of Walt Disney". Book by Diane Disney Miller, Pete Martin, 1957.

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• I had teeth that stuck out so far, I used to eat other kids' candy bars by accident.

  Rita Rudner

  Kids, Bars, Used

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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• If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

  Keith Richards

  Feet, Use, Politics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Yellow, Ties

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• Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.

  Victor Hugo

  War, Struggle, Hypocrisy

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

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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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• Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.

  George Washington

  Gun, Fake, Second Amendment

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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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• The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Devil

  Martin Luther (1904). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”

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• Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

  Joan Lunden

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Laughter

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• Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

  Benito Mussolini

  Heart, Hands, Leader

  "The Great Quotations" by George Seldes, (p. 349), 1966.

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

  Mason Cooley

  Funny, Dental Work, Ideas

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• Useless as a pulled tooth.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Sarcastic, Useless

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• If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

  George Brett

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Science, Pockets

  The Devil's Dictionary

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• The teeth on [the viperfish] are so long that if they closed inside the mouth of the fish, it would actually impale its own brain.

  Edith Widder

  Long, Brain, Mouths

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• We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.

  Dave Barry

  Rolling, Literature, Stones

  Dave Barry (2013). “My Teenage Son's Goal in Life Is to Make Me Feel 3,500 Years Old: and Other Thoughts on Parenting from Dave Barry”, p.59, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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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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• To a significant degree, we are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth, and lacking the energy that could be ours because we overindulge in junk foods.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Inspiring, Energy, Junk

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• Step to this and get shanked up
  I knocked out so many teeth the tooth fairy went bankrupt

  Big L

  Hip Hop, Steps, Fairy

  Song: Let 'em Have It 'l'

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