Dentistry
Dentistry is the art and science of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of conditions, diseases and disorders of the oral cavity, the maxillofacial region and associated structures.
Quotes
- DENTIST, n. A prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coins out of your pocket.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 188-89.
- 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!- Robert Burns, Address to the Toothache.
- 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.
- William Hazlitt, Shakespeare Jest Books. Conceits, Clinches, Flashes and Whimzies, No. 84.
- 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.- Robert Herrick, The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls.
- 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.- Set to music by Richard Alison, An Howre's Recreation in Musike. See Oliphant's La Messa Madrigalesca, p. 229.
- I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
- Job, XIX, 20.
- Thais has black, Læcania white teeth; what is the reason? Thais has her own, Læcania bought ones.
- Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book V, Epigram 43.
- I have the toothache.
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What! sigh for the toothache?- William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Act III, scene 2, line 21.
- For there was never yet philosopher
That could endure the toothache patiently.- William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Act V, scene 1, line 35.
- In the spyght of his tethe.
- John Skelton, Why Come Ye nat to Courte, line 939.
Teeth
- Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.
- 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.
- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote.
- Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
- “Were it not that I might overburden the believers-I would have ordered them to use the toothpick at every time of prayer.” (487).
- Sahih Muslim. Quoted from Ram Swarup, Understanding Islam through Hadis, 1983. [1]
- The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.
- The nations 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.
- Bertrand Russell, "An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish", Unpopular Essays (1950).
- 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.- William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
- Thirty white horses on a red hill,
First they champ,
Then they stamp,
Then they stand still.- The Hobbit Ch.5, written by J.R.R. Tolkien
- A devout Muslim Uwayah Qami lived in the valley of Urfa. He told Umar... that “when I learnt that a tooth of the Prophet had been martyred (in the Battle of Uhud) I broke one of mine. Then I thought that perhaps some other tooth of his had been martyred. So, I broke all my teeth… It is only after that that I felt at peace”.
- Shykh Fariduddin Attar, Tazkirat-ul-Auliya, trs. into Urdu by Maulana Zubair Afzal Usmani, Delhi, n.d., 16, and quoted by Sita Ram Goel, Islam vis-a-vis Hindu Temples, New Delhi, 1993, 59-60. Quoted from Lal, K. S. (1994). Muslim slave system in medieval India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 12
