Famous quotes containing the words tooth, disease and/or deafness:
“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.”
—Alice Miller (20th century)
“By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)