Alexander the Great
Military Leader, King
"May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans."
Teeth quotes
Teeth
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
"Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority."
Louise Wilder
Author, Activist
"Snowdrops: Theirs is a fragile but hardy celebration... in the very teeth of winter."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch."
John Ruskin
Art Critic, Writer
"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."
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"Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close."
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"An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth."
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"Brush teeth. Wash hair. Rule undead world with an iron fist."
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"Coffee: we can get it anywhere, and get as loaded as we like on it, until such teeth-chattering, eye-bulging, nonsense-gibbering time as we may be classified unable to operate heavy machinery."
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"I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management."
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"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."
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"Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole."
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"I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot."
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"[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?"
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"I have to brush my teeth before I go on stage otherwise I don't feel smart enough."
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"I don't like the way my teeth protrude. I'm going to have them done, but I just haven't had the time. Apart from that... I'm perfect."
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"Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone."
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"I'm so excited-I think today I'm going to brush all my teeth."
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"Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart."
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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."
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"Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it's Alright"
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"Everyone was talking about the gap between my teeth, my monocle, the fancy waistcoats I wore and the seven-inch cigarette holders I used"
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"All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth. Dont ever try to stop truth. Its the only thing that can go through 16-inch armor plate."
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"One of the very few things that I do every single day is put on fragrance. If I'm not wearing makeup ... I still put my fragrance on. I will brush my teeth and put on my perfume."
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"When I release, you loose teeth."
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