Tooth Disease Deafness

Famous quotes containing the words tooth, disease and/or deafness:

    “Poverty is the result of bad adjustment between the soul and its desires.... In the days of great poverty, I did not mind the sensation of hunger.... But ... to be deprived of tooth paste, to brush the teeth without it, was a dreadful thing, a daily discomfort.”
    —Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)

    “I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad.
    I will not trouble thee, my child; farewell:
    We’ll no more meet, no more see one another.
    But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter—
    Or rather a disease that’s in my flesh,
    Which I must needs call mine.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)