Elaine Sciolino

Colin Powell has said over the years that Saddam Hussein is like a toothache. It recurs from time to time, and you just have to live with it. At other times, he's compared Saddam Hussein to a kidney stone that will eventually pass. But he has never said, 'You have to operate and take out the kidney stone.

American Writer

Ingmar Bergman

I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.

Swedish Director

Adnan Sami

I genuinely believe that, physically and emotionally, women are far stronger than men. The amount of pain they have to endure for a childbirth, a man cannot take an ounce of it. A toothache or a stomach upset is the end of our world at times.

Pakistani Musician

Warren Spahn

A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do.

American Athlete

H. L. Mencken

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

T. S. Eliot

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

American Poet

George Bernard Shaw

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Irish Playwright

Abi Morgan

I always say writing a play is like toothache: I find it incredibly painful, and it's only once the play's out that the pain is gone.

Welsh Playwright

Joseph Barbera

Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.

American Cartoonist

Mae West

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

American Actress

Toothache implies physical pain in the teeth, often requiring medical attention or care.

Physical Discomfort

Toothache often results from cavities, gum disease, or dental injury, not just eating sweets.

Common Causes

'Severe' or 'constant' toothache usually suggests a need for urgent dental care.

Urgency

 Eighty-six percent of human societies permit a man to have several polygyny. But in the vast majority of these cultures, only about five or ten percent of men actually do have several wives. Having several partners can be a toothache. In fact, co-wives can fight with each other,

Technology hasn't...

 the searing pain of a stubbed toe, and the throbbing of a toothache. We can identify many types of pain and have multiple ways of treating it. But what about other species? How do the animals all around us experience pain? It's important that we find out.

How do animals...

 I got the toothache remedy right in here now this it's my healing clay this clay comes from the banks of the whole river and doc believes its nutrients and minerals to help cure the root of Mick's pain pack down around that tooth