“I think he's weird because he wears false teeth with braces on them.”
-Steven Wright
"Cold are the hands of time that creep along relentlessly, destroying slowly but without pity -- that which yesterday was young. Alone, our memories resist this disintegration and grow more lovely with the passing years. That's hard to say with false teeth."
~Robert Dudley, The Palm Beach Story (1942)
"A fate that is most uncanny,
Befell a most respectable Granny.
She sat on a chair,
Her false teeth were there,
And she bit herself on the fanny!"
Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.
~George Prentice (1802-1870) U.S. newspaperman and editor.
To lose a lover or even a husband or two during the course of one's life can be vexing. But to lose one's teeth is a catastrophe.
~Hugh Wheeler (1912-87), British-born U.S. novelist and playwright. A Little Night Music.A Little Night Music.
One day we will realize that elephants cannot be reduced to the value of their teeth.
~Paul Kahumbu of the Kenya Wildlife Service, after 3.6 tonnes of illegal ivory from Kenya was seized in Shanghai.
A man will lose his illusion first, his teeth second, and his follies last.
~Helen Rowland (1876-1950) U.S. writer, journalist, and humorist.
How I laughed at my Mother's false teeth,
As they foamed in the waters beneath,
But now comes the reckonin'
It's me they are beckonin'
Oh, I wish I'd looked after me teeth.
~ from I WISH I'D LOOKED AFTER ME TEETH by Pam Ayres
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Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
Frank Moore Colby (1865 - 1925) US encyclopedia editor, essayist
"The Colby Essays," vol. 1, "Satire and Teeth," 1926.
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