Ogden Nash Quotes

It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

There's not too many things I'm afraid of, but I'm not too brave when it comes to sitting in a chair getting my teeth drilled.

I've had dentists who have wanted to help me out, but I say, 'You know, I won't work again if you fix my teeth.'

No woman is a heroine to her dentist.

A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.

Isn't the fear of pain next brother to pain itself?

In general, life is better than it has ever been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden age of pleasure and plenty to which you would, if you were able, transport yourself, let me say one single word : Dentistry.

I was going to get my teeth whitened, but I said, "I'll just get a tan instead."

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

The more I thought to myself, 'Are my thoughts right, am I being obedient enough?' the worse it was... one of the most painful things you can experience in life is not so much physical pain, but being self-occupied. Because to the extent you are self-occupied, that's the extent you will be in pain.

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.

And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.

My head was forced back and a tube jammed down my nose. It was the most awful torture. I groaned with pain and I coughed and gulped the tube up and would not let it pass down my throat. Then they tried the other nostril and they found that was smaller still and slightly deformed, l suppose from constant hay-fever. The new doctor said it was impossible to get the tube down that one so they jammed it down again through the other and I wondered if the pain was as bad as child-birth. I just had strength and will enough to vomit it up again and I could see tears in the wardresses' eyes.

I've had my teeth done, which was a massive insecurity for me.

For an overwhelming majority of my life, my country has been a source of pain, fear, and embarrassment.

There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence.

It is fear that is the greatest cause of misery in the world.

We're tortured, a lot of us, believe me.

I hate flossing, I wish I just had one long curvy tooth. They didn't have to make separations for me.

Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.

It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.