Toothache Quotes - Page 2

• Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.

  George Orwell

  Men, Thinking, Perfection

  "Why Socialists Don't Believe in Fun". Tribune, December 20, 1943.

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• A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do.

  Warren Spahn

  Going Away, Want, Arms

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

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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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• In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

  Mark Twain

  German Language, Awful, Inventing

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.148, Courier Corporation

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• Most people do not go to the dentist until they have a toothache; most societies do not reform abuses until the victims begin to make life uncomfortable for others.

  Charles Issawi

  People, Abuse, Reform

  Charles Philip Issawi (1991). “Issawi's laws of social motion”, Darwin Pr

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• Toothaches afflict those who have no compassion for animals.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Animal, Compassion, Animal Compassion

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• There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

  H. L. Mencken

  Philosophical, Humor, Men

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

  Joseph Heller

  Funny, Happiness, Laughter

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• You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

  Henry Adams

  Love, Broken Heart, Pain

  Henry Adams (2015). “Democracy: An American Novel!”, p.168, eKitap Projesi (PublishDrive)

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• How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over the sorrows of our human Brethren and Sisteren, we are in fact, tho' perhaps unconsciously, moved at the prospect of our own End for who sincerely pities Sea-sickness, Toothache, or a fit of the Gout in a lusty Good-liver of 50?

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Christian, Sea, Sorrow

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1956). “Collected Letters: 1820-1825”

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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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• For there was never yet philosoper
  That could endure the toothache patiently,
  However they have writ the style of gods,
  And made a push at chance and sufferance.

  William Shakespeare

  Style, Endurance, Chance

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Much Ado About Nothing”, p.109, Penguin

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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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• A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power to cure his soul.

  Augustus Toplady

  Thinking, Power, Men

  Augustus Montague TOPLADY (1837). “The Works of Augustus Toplady ... A New Edition, Complete in One Volume. Printed Verbatim from the First Edition of His Works, 1794”, p.546

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• I hear the word 'tolerance'-tha t some people are trying to teach people to be tolerant of gays. I'm not satisfied with that word. I am gay, and I am not seeking to be 'tolerated'. One tolerates a toothache, rush-hour traffic, an annoying neighbor with a cluttered yard. I am not a negative to be tolerated.

  Chely Wright

  Gay, People, Tolerance

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• Every day we touch what is wrong, and, as a result, we are becoming less and less healthy. That is why we have to learn to practice touching what is not wrong—inside us and around us. When we get in touch with our eyes, our heart, our liver, our breathing, and our non-toothache and really enjoy them, we see that the conditions for peace and happiness are already present.

  Nhat Hanh

  Heart, Health, Eye

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.7, Parallax Press

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• The ninos santos (Psilocybe mexicana) heal. They lower fevers, cure colds, and give freedom from toothaches. They pull the evil spirits out of the body or free the spirit of the sick.

  Maria Sabina

  Evil, Giving, Sick

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• An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Roots, Teeth, Half

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.70, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I've left this life with no rancour, I'll never have toothache again, Now I lie in the communal grave, the communal grave of time.

  Georges Brassens

  Lying, Graves, This Life

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• I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack of rheumatism. In the fourth game, I wasn't feeling well. And in the fifth game? Well, must one have to win every game?

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Winning, Games, Chess Game

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• Then they gave me a loaf of bread and told me to walk through the forest and give some to anyone who asked. I did exactly what they told me, and the second beggar-woman was a fairy in disguise, but instead of saying that whenever I spoke, diamonds and roses would drop from my mouth, she said that since I was so kind, I would never have any problems with my teeth.” “Really? Did it work?” “Well, I haven’t had a toothache since I met her.” “I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Giving, Rose, Teeth

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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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• Even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own.

  Roger Zelazny

  Philosophical, Vistas, Happens

  Roger Zelazny (1983). “Unicorn Variations”, Pocket Books

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• You remind me of someone with a bad toothache who's hitting herself in the head with a hammer to distract herself from the pain in her mouth.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Pain, Hammers, Mouths

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Claire Zion (1989). “Fancy Pants”, Pocket

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