To beg teeth of a roost-cock. [ Proverb ]
The malevolent have hidden teeth. [ Publius Syrus ]
You dig your grave with your teeth. [ Proverb ]
Never show your teeth unless you can bite. [ Proverb ]
The tongue walks where the teeth speed not. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
An horse-kiss, like to beat one's teeth out. [ Proverb ]
My teeth are nearer to me than my kindred is. [ Proverb ]
I deny that with both my hands, and all my teeth. [ Proverb ]
You dare as well put out one of the devil's teeth. [ Proverb ]
Wolves may lose their teeth, but not their nature. [ Proverb ]
Cast a bone in the devil's teeth and it will save you. [ Proverb ]
Women who have not fine teeth laugh only with their eyes. [ Mme. de Rieux ]
None laugh better, and oftener, than women with fine teeth.
Top and bottom teeth sometimes come into awkward collision. [ Ch. Proverb ]
She gave a forced laugh (laughed with the end of her teeth). [ French Proverb ]
Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
My heart laments that virtue cannot live out of the teeth of emulation. [ William Shakespeare ]
He who has teeth is without bread, and he who has bread is without teeth. [ Italian Proverb ]
He hath tied a knot with his tongue that he cannot untie with all his teeth. [ Proverb ]
We bachelors laugh and show our teeth, but you married* men laugh until your heart ache. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The canine letter - the letter R. A growling dog will bare his teeth and growl the letter R.
One sneers at curls when one has no more hair; one slanders apples when one has no more teeth. [ A. Karr ]
Like the smith's dog, that sleeps at the noise of the hammers, and wakes at the crashing of teeth. [ Proverb ]
There is a remedy for everything but death, who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches. [ Cervantes ]
The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth. [ Dryden ]
Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others? [ Franklin ]
I never knew the old gentleman with the scythe and hour-glass bring anything but gray hairs, thin cheeks, and loss of teeth. [ Dryden ]
God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffinman's bell. [ Carlyle ]
Last scene of all, that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness, and mere oblivion; sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. [ William Shakespeare ]
Teeth, hair, nails, and the human species, prosper not when separated from their place. A wise man, being informed of this, should not totally forsake his native home. [ Hitopadesa ]
Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Under the sky is no uglier spectacle than two men with clenched teeth and hell-fire eyes hacking one another's flesh, converting precious living bodies and priceless living souls into nameless masses of putrescence, useful only for turnip manure. [ Carlyle ]