Best 361 quotes in «teeth quotes» category

The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get a set which can really be depended on 'till a dentist makes him one.

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife.

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.

Then I say, "Let's go and brush our teeth." So Lola says, "But Charlie, I can't brush my teeth because somebody is using my tooth." "But who would use your toothbrush?" I ask. Lola says "I think that lion. I saw a lion with my toothbrush and now he's brushing his teeth with it." "But it isn't this your toothbrush Lola?" "Oh," says Lola, "he must be using yours.

There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

There was a strange kind of comfort in misunderstandings and differences that were old enough to have lost their teeth.

The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.

There's an obsession by the media to delegitimize Donald Trump, and we are not going to sit around and let it happen. We're going to fight back tooth and nail every day, and twice on Sunday.

The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.

The morose one refuses to smile even when he has just had his teeth cleaned.

The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.

The Simi is very environmentally sound. Eat everything except for hooves. I don’t like those, they hurt my teeth. Thanatos don’t have hooves, do he? (Simi) No, Simi, he doesn’t. (Acheron) Ooo, good eating tonight. I get a Daimon for barbecue. Can I go now, akri? Can I? Can I? Can I, please? (Simi)

The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.

The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.

The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.

The trick in foraging for a tooth lost in coffee grounds is not to be misled by the clumps. The only way to be sure is to rub each clump between your thumb and index finger, which makes a mess of your hands.

THE WOMAN WAS GOING TO KILL HIM, and not because she was stronger and more vicious than he was. Which, if he thought about it, she was. He’d never ripped a man’s throat out with his teeth, and he was damned impressed that Gwen had. She’d made the Lords of the Underworld look like marshmallows.

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.

They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.

They had seen Zarek take out a pair of Daimons. Great. Just great. He closed his eyes and cursed. This night was starting to rate right up there with abscessed teeth.’ (Talon)

This one sits shivering in Fortune's smile, taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath. This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while laughs in the teeth of Death.

This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws.

Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.

The usual bad poem in somebody's Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one's teeth.

This was a place where tattoos outnumbered teeth.

Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.

Vampire teeth really aren't very efficient, are they? It looks very messy. I'm not sure it's the best way to get a pint off anyone.

Twitter is a kind of verbalization of people yelling at their television sets or gnashing their teeth at the newspaper.

We are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth.

To slaughter grand and beautiful creatures like these tuskers, whether terrestrial or marine, solely to obtain a few teeth indicates that we have not evolved very much since the days our forebears lived in caves and saught to prove their superiority by adorning themselves with teeth and claws

we dig our graves with our teeth.

very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.

We in the west walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the cold war and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again there will be consequences.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

We're beginning to enter an era where it gets really cheap and really fast to begin to do things like make fuels, and make textiles, and make extra teeth for ourselves. And we're beginning to think about how we regrow our bladders.

We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color.

We would never have scales, feathers, or breasts if we didn't have teeth in the first place.

We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.

What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?

What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides?

Well I'm not dancing," Will said through gritted teeth. "I don't know how." Oh yes you are," Alyss told him. "Let's hope you're a fast learner." He glanced at her and saw no prospect of escape. "Well,at least I won't be the only one," he said. "Halt will be terrible too." But nobody in the assembly knew tat for the past ten days, Halt had been taking dance lessons from Lady Sandra.

What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.

When life is kicking others in the teeth, Become a dentist.