Toothless Quotes

• God often gives nuts to toothless people.

  Matt Groening

  Nuts, People, Giving

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• Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.

  Dilys Laing

  Men, Tolerance, Gum

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• You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.

  John Ruskin

  Time, Flames, Teeth

  John Ruskin (2006). “A Joy for Ever, And Its Price in the Market”, p.83, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Voiceless, Cry, Riddle

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Good grief. If we can’t laugh at ourselves, and at one another, in good spirit and without malice, then what fun can be left? If we must withhold all ribbing in the name of protecting everyone’s feelings, then we truly are a toothless society. We will reach what I call “the lowest common denominator of butthurt.

  George Takei

  Fun, Grief, Names

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• If you think you're an alcoholic, go to Scotland. You're not an alcoholic. These people are such drunken, toothless hillbillies - I've never seen anything like it. People in Scotland drink while they're drinking.

  Jay Mohr

  Drinking, Thinking, Scotland

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• Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.

  Eliphas Levi

  Beauty, Beautiful, Reflection

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• An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Eye

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.26, RosettaBooks

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• There is no ICC anymore. It is just BCCI. It is not International Cricket Council it is International Crime Council. If you take all the cricket board Presidents am sure they are all puppets. ICC is the toothless tiger.

  Arjuna Ranatunga

  President, Boards, Puppets

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• These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.

  Allan Bloom

  Men, Order, House

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• Move over Lucifer, I'm more ruthless, leave you toothless.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Moving, Evil, Lucifer

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• To think things out properly and fairly, a fellow's got to be calm and old and toothless: When you're an old gaffer with no teeth, it's easy to say: 'Damn it, boys, you mustn't bite!' But, when you've got all thirty-two teeth.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Boys, Thinking, Two

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they leave that building they must bow to the secular orthodoxy of the state, you have a cynical lie at work. They’ve substituted a toothless ‘freedom of worship’ for ‘freedom of religion’.

  Eric Metaxas

  Lying, Government, Cynical

  "Raising Good Men". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. May 4, 2013.

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• I' tired of old people being labeled as worthless,useless,toothless and sexless

  Claude Pepper

  Tired, People, Useless

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• In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not kind, because it is not truthful.

  George Saunders

  Trying, Be Kind, Truthful

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• The bride, white of hair, is stooped over her cane Her faltering footsteps need guiding. While down the church aisle, with wan toothless smile, The groom in a wheelchair comes riding. And who is this elderly couple you ask? You'll find, when you've closely explored it, That here is that rare, most conservative pair, Who waited 'til they could afford it.

  Richard Armour

  Couple, Hair, Elderly

  Richard Willard Armour, “Too Have And Too Old”

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• If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Forgiveness, Eye, Teeth

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• Do you know, Mother, that Haj Salem was buried alive in his home? Does he tell you stories in heaven now? I wish I had had a chance to meet him. To see his toothless grin and touch his leathery skin. To beg him, as you did in your youth, for a story from our Palestine. He was over one hundred years old, Mother. To have lived so long, only to be crushed to death by a bulldozer. Is this what it means to be Palestinian?

  Susan Abulhawa

  Mother, Home, Mean

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• Sleeping as quiet as death, side by wrinkled side, toothless, salt and brown, like two old kippers in a box.

  Dylan Thomas

  Sleep, Two, Salt

  Dylan Thomas (1954). “Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

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• My father came from an intellectual and studious avenue as opposed to a brawler's avenue. So I had to go further afield and I brought all kinds of unscrupulous oiks back home - earless, toothless vagabonds - to teach me the arts of the old bagarre.

  Tom Hardy

  Art, Father, Home

  "Tom Hardy: 'It's a normal human impulse to watch two people kick the hell out of each other'". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2011.

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• If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Forgiveness, Eye, Practice

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• Don't come giving me, who's old enough to die and too near blind to create anything any more anyhow, a great big banquet that you eat up in honor of your own stomachs as much as in honor of me- who's toothless and can't eat.

  Langston Hughes

  Giving, Honor, Blind

  Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, p.77, University of Missouri Press

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• I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.

  Amy Bloom

  Perseverance, Team, Winning

  Amy Bloom (2010). “Where The God Of Love Hangs Out”, p.55, Granta Books

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• We had a dog, Apples. He was 13 years old, toothless, blind and had the worst breath this side of Jabba the Hut. But he was the sweetest dog, and I cried and cried when he died.

  Marlee Matlin

  Dog, Years, Apples

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• Her death would leave me scattered, talking to chairs and pillows. Don't let us die, I want to cry out to that fifth-century sky ablaze with mystery and spiral light. Let us both live forever, in sickness and health, feebleminded, doddering, toothless, liver-spotted, dim-sighted, hallucinating. Who decides these things? What is out there? Who are you?

  Don DeLillo

  Light, Talking, Sky

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.119, Pan Macmillan

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