“Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.”
Rabbi Nachman
“Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,/ And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth,/ Stealing my breath of life, I will confess/ I love this cultured hell that tests my youth!”
Claude McKay
“Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: / But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.”
Bible
“The venom clamors of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth”
William Shakespeare
“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child”
“Blow, blow thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude”
“Tooth decay was a perennial national problem that meant a mouthful of silver for patients, and for dentists a pocketful of gold.”
Claudia Wallis
