Teeth Quotes - 4
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And what can we expect if we haven't any dinner, But to lose our teeth and eyelashes and keep on growing thinner?
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But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Bible (NewTestament)— St Matthew 8:12.
My bones are smitten asunder as with a sword: while mine enemies that trouble me cast me in the teeth; Namely, while they say daily unto me: Where is now thy God?
— Psalm 42:12-13.
Timothy Winters comes to school With eyes as wide as a football pool, Ears like bombs and teeth like splinters: A blitz of a boy isTimothy Winters.
Charles Causley— 1957 'Timothy Winters'.
For years I have let dentists ride roughshod over my teeth; I have been sawed, hacked, chopped, whittled, bewitched, bewildered, tattooed, and signed on again; but this is cuspid's last stand.
— 1944 Crazy Like a Fox,'Nothing But theTooth'.
The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protuded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.
Bram Stoker— 1897 Describing Count Dracula. Dracula, ch.2.
Let's be perfectly clear, shall we. The fox is not a little orange puppy dog with doe eyes and a waggly tail. It's a disease-ridden wolf with the morals of a psychopath and the teeth of a great white shark.
jeremy clarkson— A Murderous Fox Has Made Me Shoot David Beckham, p. 161
I tell ya, my wife's a lousy cook. After dinner, I don't brush my teeth. I count them.
rodney dangerfield— It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect But Plenty of Sex and Drug (2004, p. 18)
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humour?
— Frank Moore Colby, (1926) The Colby Essays, Vol. 1., "Satire and Teeth". Reported in Robert Andrews, The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, Columbia University Press. (1993) ISBN 0231071949. p. 431.
If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.
evelyn beatrice hall— Ch. 2 : Diderot : The Talker, p. 61
It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to knowledge and enfranchised the soul of his generation.
evelyn beatrice hall— Ch. 2 : Diderot : The Talker, p. 61
Have you ever looked at Kylie's teeth? Those teeth are proportional to the teeth of a camel in the mouth of a toddler.
jeremy hardy— QI, BBC Two, 6 November 2003
I assumed that some of the gold bars I received were melted gold teeth.
oswald pohl— To Leon Goldensohn, June 5, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
I had teeth that stuck out so far, I used to eat other kids' candy bars by accident.
rita rudner— Essay 42: "Fillings Nothing ... More Than Fillings", p. 151
Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time,So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry;Blot out the epic’s stately rhyme,But spare his "Highland Mary!"
john greenleaf whittier— Line on Burns, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
When the Law shows her teeth, but dares not bite.
Edward Young— Satire I, l. 17.
"You know what Canino will do---beat my teeth out and then kick me in the stomach for mumbling."
Raymond Chandler— chapter 28 (The Big Sleep (1939))
I'm an old man at 54, without teeth, and with rheumatism.
karl dönitz— To Leon Goldensohn, March 3, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
The new hero-type favored by Aschenbach, and recurring in his books in a multiplicity of individual variants, had already been remarked upon at an early stage by a shrewd commentator, who had described his conception as that of “an intellectual and boyish manly virtue, that of a youth who clenches his teeth in proud shame and stands calmly on as the swords and spears pass through his body ... the figure of Saint Sebastian is the most perfect symbol if not of art in general, then certainly of the kind of art in question.
thomas mann— Ch. 2, as translated by David Luke
He wakes up in the morning Does his teeth, bite to eat and he's rolling Never changes a thing. The week ends the week begins She thinks, we look at each other Wondering what the other is thinking But we never say a thing These crimes between us grow deeper.
dave matthews— Ants Marching
Lay a second foundation enough inside the first... Having laid these two foundations... build cross walls between them uniting the outer and inner foundation in a comb like arrangement set like teeth of a saw. With this form of construction the burden of earth will be distributed into small bodies and will not lie with all its weight in one crushing mass so as to thrust out substructures.
vitruvius— Chapter V, Sec. 7
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
alan watts— As quoted in Life magazine (21 April 1961)
They will steal the very teeth out of your mouth as you walk through the streets – I know it from experience.
— Ibid, referring to the residents of Uxbridge.
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
— Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book XIV, Epistle 68.
Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry: Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his Highland Mary!
john greenleaf whittier— John Greenleaf Whittier, Burns, last stanza
Let's be perfectly clear, shall we. The fox is not a little orange puppy dog with doe eyes and a waggly tail. It's a disease-ridden wolf with the morals of a psychopath and the teeth of a great white shark.
— Jeremy Clarkson (2005), The World According to Clarkson, p. 161.
Feet that make no noise; eyes that can see in the dark; ears that can hear the winds in their lairs, and sharp white teeth, all these things are the marks of our brothers except Tabaqui the Jackal and the Hyaena whom we hate.
— Kipling, Rudyard (1894), The Jungle Book, Macmillan Publishers
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
— Bertrand Russell, "An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish", Unpopular Essays (1950).
Zeno, the disciple of Parmenides , having attempted to kill the tyrant Demylus, and failing in his design, maintained the doctrine of Parmenides, like pure and fine gold tried in the fire, that there is nothing which a magnanimous man ought to dread but dishonor, and that there are none but children and women, or effeminate and women-hearted men, who fear pain. For, having with his own teeth bitten off his tongue, he spit it in the tyrant's face.
— Plutarch, in "Against Colotes the Epicurean" in Morals
I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
— Jonathan Swift
Now I'll set my teeth, And send to darkness all that stop me.
— Antony,, scene xiii (Act III)
