Welcome to our collection of insightful and witty teeth quotes! Teeth, the unsung heroes of our daily lives, play a crucial role not only in our physical health but also in our social interactions and self-confidence. From the pearly whites of a radiant smile to the grit and determination they symbolize, teeth hold a unique place in our culture and consciousness.
Throughout history, teeth have been a subject of fascination, humor, and reflection for poets, philosophers, and ordinary people alike. Whether they’re the subject of lighthearted jokes or profound musings on the passage of time, teeth have inspired a diverse range of quotes that highlight their importance in our lives. So, whether you’re seeking inspiration, humor, or simply a deeper appreciation for those enamel-coated treasures in your mouth, you’ll find something to sink your teeth into in our curated collection of quotes on this topic.
Without further ado, let’s explore the wisdom and wit encapsulated in these quotes about teeth. Feel free to copy, embellish, or share them as you see fit, whether it’s in a social media post, a piece of artwork, or simply to brighten someone’s day with a smile. The words that follow are sure to leave a lasting impression, much like a gleaming set of teeth in a beaming grin.
Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn’t that be the job of your mom and dad? To teach you how to brush your teeth and use mouth wash? What do we need the government to do it for? Clearly, what a scam. Fluoride in the water. Jesse Ventura
You’re talking to a guy that graduated from business school by the skin of his teeth, only to crash and burn at his first consulting job. What about that C.V. makes me a good representative of Asian Americans and Canadians? Simu Liu
I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn’t have democracy. Chrystia Freeland
I use sunscreen every single day, even if I’m not going outside in the sun, because I’m near a window. I can always get those UV rays on my face, so I always apply sunscreen on my face and neck. It’s like brushing my teeth: I feel weird if I don’t apply sunscreen. Michelle Phan
I was studying my ‘Bold and Beautiful’ script the other day, lying in a hammock, when one of my Siberian tigers walked up and grabbed it out of my hand – she wanted to play. See – teeth marks! Tippi Hedren
As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I’m still not comfortable, but that’s why I change and adapt the way I look. Marilyn Manson
I don’t have perfect teeth, I’m not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn’t want to change anything. Emma Watson
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. Alan Watts
My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew. Miranda Lambert
I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother’s Day. I didn’t want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure. Anne Lamott
Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. Ambrose Bierce
I’m a tooth person… I like quirky teeth. My husband has little teeth with spaces in between them. He hates them and I love them. I like people with buckteeth, and I like it when they crinkle a bit. It’s very charming. Malin Akerman
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth. Antonin Artaud
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. Joan Lunden
We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I had pneumonia when I was 18 months old and I was given penicillin, which I was allergic to, and since then my teeth have been yellow. Jess Phillips
I’m just happy that Jesus Christ, um, did not let me lose my teeth when I was 20 years old. ‘Cause I was wondering, like, what if you kept your baby teeth until the age of 18 or 20, and then you lose ’em? That would look pretty bad. Metta World Peace
Sometimes you need to play with a knife between your teeth. Gennaro Gattuso
If other people think I’m okay looking, that’s great, but I don’t see it myself. When I look in the mirror, all I see is a bunch of fake teeth and football scars. Mark Harmon
I’ve always been unhappy with my teeth. I’ve lost most of them from my bottom jaw, and those in the upper jaw have been screwed in or capped. As a result, I’ve got great hollows under my cheeks, and my bone structure seems accentuated. Kate O’Mara
She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth. Benjamin Franklin
I don’t have false teeth. Do you think I’d buy teeth like these? Carol Burnett
There was nothing special about me; there are boxers in Belfast who are more skilled but I had a bit between my teeth that drives me on. Carl Frampton
No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth. Harry Houdini
It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn’t fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it’s been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center. Ellen Barkin
I am God’s wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ. Ignatius of Antioch
If you look hard enough, you’ll find that many of the products we use every day – chewing gums, skin moisturizers, disinfecting wipes, air fresheners, water purifiers, health snacks, antiperspirants, colognes, teeth whiteners, fabric softeners, vitamins – are results of manufactured habits. Charles Duhigg
There’s lots said about me. I have teeth that are way too big for my face or that I am too skinny for my own good… And I can safely say that I have three left feet. But there’s nothing I can do about it. That’s the way I look, and that’s the way I was born. Kalki Koechlin
I think fitness and doing gym should be like brushing teeth everyday in the morning as it should come automatically without any excuse. Sonu Sood
Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts. Benito Mussolini
Everything is fleeting and passing and impermanent in life. Relationships, people, our finite physical forms… We let go of our childhoods, we let go of different parts of our body, we lose elasticity in our skin, and we lose hair and we lose teeth. Adrianne Lenker
I don’t like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions. Charles Bukowski
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
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. Daniel Day-Lewis
When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail – none of which is easy. Princess Anne
I became a vegetarian in 1995. I had some fried chicken, and my teeth hit the bone. My mind said, ‘Dead bird, dead bird.’ It didn’t feel right, so I stopped. I kept eating fish until one day, in 1997, the chef brought my ginger-fried snapper with the head still on it. Rza
It’s no good kicking progress In the teeth – there’s nothing wrong with a tractor. Murray Head
I don’t have hair anymore. I’ve shrunk. I’m barely 6 feet 2 inches. I just had my teeth fixed because I’m a grinder. Terry Bradshaw
I have really crooked teeth – they give me character! Emma Roberts
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. Herb Caen
A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases. Charles Jencks
I was blessed with a good character in ‘Hollyoaks,’ and I cut my teeth in ‘Brookside’ as well. Barry Sloane
I don’t love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn’t mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between her teeth, versus perfect white veneers. Perfection is just… boring. Perfect is what’s natural or real; that is beauty. Marc Jacobs
It was simple reality – most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock – great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us. Anne Lamott
The very notion of Great Britain’s ‘greatness’ is bound up with empire. Euro-scepticism and Little Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose sugar flowed through English blood and rotted English teeth. Stuart Hall
We’re interested in things that have big teeth, and you can see the evolutionary value of that, and you can also see the practical consequences by watching ‘Animal Planet.’ You notice they make very few programs about gerbils. It’s mostly about things that have big teeth. Seth Shostak
It’s hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth. Yotam Ottolenghi
I did karate for about three years. When I was going into Miss Texas, my mom said, ‘Let’s not do karate this year. Let’s not have any knocked-out teeth on the stage.’ Sarah Shahi
I was born in a council house, my father left school at the age of 11, had his teeth out without anaesthetic at the age of 22. David Starkey
My teeth are all right, but they are not American teeth, and my hair is not thick and luscious. Los Angeles is dense with beautiful people, and most of the men who are aspiring actors are 5ft 5in, so I tower above them. Stephen Merchant
If you brush your teeth, you don’t want to eat something right after because your mouth feels so fresh. So brushing your teeth actually prevents you from eating until later. Cloris Leachman
Success is like food caught in your teeth: much more noticeable when it happens to other people. If it happens to you, other people have to take you aside and say something. Alexandra Petri
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret. Every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth. Eduardo Galeano
I didn’t like the idea of changing myself for the industry. I felt to have my teeth straightened and bleached and to starve myself to change my body was not respecting who I was. Laetitia Casta
I’m so glad I’m not a dentist. How many times does someone say, ‘Oh, Doc, it felt so good when you were drilling my teeth’? Never. But when you give someone a wonderful cookie, you put a little of yourself in, and you see someone’s face light up – that’s immediate approval. Paula Deen
I have this Waterpik that shoots water between your teeth. It’s great. You do that along with flossing, and you know for a fact you’ve cleaned your mouth as much as humanly possible. It’s like going to the dentist every night in your bathroom. I don’t know if it’s a floss replacement, but in conjunction with flossing, it’s great. Adam Scott
And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that’s what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet. Jackson Browne
I have problems because I’m very expressive, and usually red lipstick gets on my teeth and face. Jessica Chastain
I haven’t had my teeth fixed, I haven’t had a hair transplant. I haven’t had a skin peel, tummy tuck. I’ve done literally nothing. Ricky Gervais
My smile has been my ticket to the world. Smiling releases the same feel-good hormones you get jogging. Caring for your lips and gums is important. I brush my teeth morning and night, alternating toothpaste brands. In addition to flossing, I use a Water Pik to massage my gums and remove food particles. Christie Brinkley
When the money gets bigger and the stakes get higher, the sea gets wider, and the sharks in the water grow sharper teeth. Keith Jackson
After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts. Tom Brady
I used to search that frantically, ‘actresses with overbites,’ ‘actresses with gap teeth.’ Thinking, because I don’t see them anywhere, am I really going to pursue a career in acting before I get a bloody Invisalign? Aimee Lou Wood
The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth. Andres Segovia
Breast-feeding was so stressful for me. I kept on clenching and pushing my tongue against the bottom teeth, so they started to move toward an underbite. Ali Wong
In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage – to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation. Ingrid Betancourt
I stretch and do my squats when I brush my teeth. Michelle Yeoh
I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn’t wear the retainer. J Mascis
If you want to communicate something, you’d better make sure that your design piece is well-dressed and that its teeth are fixed. At the same time, I still believe that if it is only stylistically great and it has nothing to say, it still is not going to make a lasting impression on anybody. Stefan Sagmeister
A law has to have teeth. Dan Bongino
My father, Philip Fisher, was the toughest guy I ever knew. An example: He had terrible teeth, yet he got his fillings done without ever using a painkiller. Now, that’s tough! Kenneth Fisher
During ‘Will & Grace,’ we had so many things we had to go to where you get all dolled up. It’s like pulling teeth for me. Megan Mullally
It’s nice to get my teeth into something that isn’t a stereotypical female role. Rose Leslie
If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet. Keith Richards
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me. Barbra Streisand
My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions. James Joyce
The first thing I do is brush my teeth – we like to start the morning with fresh breath – and put on my pajamas and meander down to the kitchen for a glass of orange juice. No coffee. No caffeine. Tamara Tunie
When I was little, I didn’t smile much. Don’t get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn’t stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn’t win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts. Uzo Aduba
I have 32 sweet teeth. I love everything from chocolates of all kinds to panna cotta to Khubhani ka Meetha and Double ka Meetha. Dia Mirza
If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out. George Brett
We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth. Dave Barry
Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church. C. S. Lewis
All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. Walt Disney
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. George Bernard Shaw
We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth. John Lyly
I have late-stage Lyme disease. I was misdiagnosed for many, many years and told I had lupus, MS, Crohn’s disease, even degenerative arthritis. And finally in 2010, I got the correct diagnosis, because on the last Le Tigre tour, I was having several seizures a day and at times not being able to brush my own teeth. Kathleen Hanna
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. Peter Ustinov
The water issue is critically related to climate change. People say that carbon is the currency of climate change. Water is the teeth. Jim Yong Kim
Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts. Tom Brady
It’s funny because I want my teeth to be, like, neon ‘Real Housewives’ white, but mine have stopped taking to teeth whitening. When I talk to my dentist, I’m like, ‘They can be that white,’ and he’s like, ‘Veneers can be that white.’ Chrissy Teigen
I keep pushing for the Crest Whitestrips thing. I get so many compliments on how white my teeth are, but I have to say it’s not because of my brushing skills. It’s from Crest Whitestrips, and that’s the honest truth. I don’t believe in going to the dentist and paying for whitening. Jill Wagner
Grit your teeth and smile. In the face of adversity, go. They don’t deserve you. Christine Lagarde
I eat a bit too much; my teeth aren’t perfect; I’ve got eye bags. I look like a normal 39-year-old woman – but in England, no one minds that. Olivia Colman
I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals. Diogenes
I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie. Rodney Dangerfield
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
I had my two front teeth knocked out by a sixth grader in first grade. Chad Michael Murray
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. Flannery O’Connor
My wife had a bad habit of biting her nails, but I cured her. I hid her teeth. Tommy Cooper
In the olden days you cut your teeth on the northern club circuit. I’ve cut mine on the southern black-tie circuit. Alexander Armstrong