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"DENTIST, n. A prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coins out of your pocket."
"You mean people pay you to do this to them? I thought you had captured these people and brought them here against their will! How do I become a dentist?"
"... The first dentist I had for about 30 years, until he finally retired. ... The next three dentist changes all happened within a matter of maybe a year. I heard none of these young dentists owned the practice or could even begin to think of owning it. But they owed someone—and lots, on their s. I would guess in the ballpark of $400k of more. Apparently another out-of-state retired dentist had worked himself into the "investor class" of society, letting my childhood dentist cash out his practice and retire himself. I wondered if the revolving door of young dentists I was experiencing had anything to do with how they were starting out so deep in the hole after —moving to where they could get the best pay, cheapest housing, and shortest commute."
"My curse upon thy venom'd stang, That shoots my tortured gums alang; And through my lugs gies monie a twang, Wi' gnawing vengeance, Tearing my nerves wi' bitter pang, Like racking engines!"
"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."
"Some ask'd how pearls did grow, and where, Then spoke I to my girle, To part her lips, and showed them there The quarelets of pearl."
"Those cherries fairly do enclose Of orient pearl a double row, Which, when her lovely laughter shows, They look like rosebuds fill'd with snow."
"I am escaped with the skin of my teeth."
"Thais has black, Læcania white teeth; what is the reason? Thais has her own, Læcania bought ones."
"I have the toothache. * * * * * * What! sigh for the toothache?"
"For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently."
"In the spyght of his tethe."
"Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past."
"Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle said, "If I had not found it hard for my followers or the people, I would have ordered them to clean their teeth with for every prayer.""
"I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?"
"Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond."
"Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts."
"The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound."
"The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are, the more it hurts to touch them."
"Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted."
"I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth."
"I will be flesh and blood; For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently, However they have writ the style of gods And make a push at chance and sufferance."
"There is no Easter Bunny, there is no Tooth Fairy and there is no Queen of England."
"Thirty white horses on a red hill, First they champ, Then they stamp, Then they stand still."