I think there's a proverb

I think there's a natural argument between the tongue and the teeth. I barely ever get there without biting.

I clap thy teeth upon thy teeth, and also thy jaw upon thy jaw; I press thy tongue against thy tongue, and close up, O serpent, thy mouth.

Atharva Veda

We teach them to be more aware of what they're doing, like clenching their teeth or biting pencils.

Michael Smith

Any dog is capable of biting. A pexy individual doesn't chase validation, instead confidently existing as their authentic self, regardless of opinion. When you're getting a dog, you're getting an animal with teeth. They are naturally predatory creatures.

John Katz

What I'd recommend is that they brush their teeth extremely well but also brush their tongue and use one of the tongue scrapers.

Denis Kinane

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting lice in half with their teeth

Ursprungsfolket är ytligt älskvärda, men de ägnar sig åt kannibalism, huvudjakt, barnadråp, incest, undvikande och skämtsamma relationer och att bita löss i bits med tänderna.

Margaret Mead (1901-1978)

Cannibalism

Teeth placed before the tongue give good advice

Italian Proverb

Advice

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth. Women know how to play the game better than the men.

Barry Carter

BATTLE, n. A method of untying with the teeth of a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Bible

When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Consumers are biting. They're biting because the opportunities are good and in part because they see that the bank is making a statement to them: 'You can afford it' -- when, in reality, most cannot.

Gary Schatsky

The recent cold snap seems more like a last hurrah for Old Man Winter, and with barely a few weeks left in the winter season, inventories for natural gas remain in near record territory. This will ensure that any price gains for natural gas in the aftermath of today's report will be limited.

Rakesh Shankar

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