Saliva Quotes - Page 2

• As we have seen, bread, and especially dry bread, evokes secretion of considerably larger quantities of saliva than meat.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Meat, Dry, Bread

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1957). “Experimental psychology, and other essays”

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• All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth kissing until their first contact with European explorers. And the attraction was not always immediately apparent. Most considered the act of exchanging saliva revolting.

  Joshua Foer

  Kissing, Culture, Mouths

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• The duende....Where is the duende? Through the empty archway a wind of the spirit enters, blowing insistently over the heads of the dead, in search of new landscapes and unknown accents: a wind with the odour of a child's saliva, crushed grass, and medusa's veil, announcing the endless baptism of freshly created things.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Children, Wind, Baptism

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• All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat.

  Pliny the Elder

  Men, Water, Poison

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.396, Delphi Classics

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• Being veterinarians, we're not supposed to be afraid of any animals. And I'm afraid of spiders. They creep me out the way they move. They got hair and saliva. That's wrong. A bug shouldn't have hair on it.

  Kevin Fitzgerald

  Moving, Animal, Hair

  "Veterinarian Kevin Fitzgerald Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. August 11, 2007.

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• And an airplane of spittle dived into the sea, there were no salivas.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Airplane, Humor

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• You wanna know the secret of life? The saliva of young girls.

  Tony Curtis

  Life, Girl, Secret

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