Dentistry Quotes

• 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.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Teeth, Kind

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

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• Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

  Dick Cavett

  Men, People, Assuming

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

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Funny, Men, Dental Work

  Don Quixote I, Ch. 4 (1605)

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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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• Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.

  Ann Landers

  Funny, Blessed, Dental

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

  Mason Cooley

  Funny, Dental Work, Ideas

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

  William Shakespeare

  Philosophical, Dental Work, Endurance

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

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

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Dental Work, Teeth

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

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

  George D. Prentice

  Funny, Dental Work, Looks

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

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Dark, Teeth

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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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  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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• 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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• 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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• Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

  Mae West

  Love, Funny, Money

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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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• 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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• A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Happiness, Smile

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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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• I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

  Jonathan Swift

  Tongue, Teeth, Littles

  Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.336

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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, Dental Work

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

  Leonard Woolf

  Funny, Pain, Dental Work

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• Put your money where your mouth is.

  John Sheridan

  Saving Private Ryan, Teeth, Mouths

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