No, my friend, I am not drunk. It is that I have been to the dentist and I need not go again for six months. It is a beautiful thought. – Agatha Christie, The Patriotic Murders (Hercule Poirot)
I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
Men often think submission indicates weakness, that letting someone else take charge betrays a character deficit. But we all submit to strangers who drill into our teeth as long as we can see the parchment on their wall which reads “Dentist.” – Edmond Manning, King Perry
Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body it includes the whole of society – as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times. – David Bohm
There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees – not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights. – Dick Durbin
