Teeth

"DENTIST, n. A prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coins out of your pocket."

"You mean people pay you to do this to them? I thought you had captured these people and brought them here against their will! How do I become a dentist?"

"Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 188-89."

"My curse upon thy venom'd stang,That shoots my tortured gums alang;And through my lugs gies monie a twang, Wi' gnawing vengeance,Tearing my nerves wi' bitter pang, Like racking engines!"

"One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living."

"Some ask'd how pearls did grow, and where, Then spoke I to my girle,To part her lips, and showed them there The quarelets of pearl."

"Those cherries fairly do enclose Of orient pearl a double row,Which, when her lovely laughter shows, They look like rosebuds fill'd with snow."

"I am escaped with the skin of my teeth."