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I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)


Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)


Oysters are very unsatisfactory food for the labouring men, but will do for the sedentary, and for a supper to sleep on. (Quote by - Albert J. Bellows)


He was a bold man that first eat an oyster. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)


He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating of oysters. (Quote by - James I)


If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. They shiver you for a split second. [Just taste like salt to me! - Ed] (Quote by - Eleanor Clark)


It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that poverty and oysters always seem to go together." (Quote by - Charles Dickens)


Oysters are the usual opening to a winter breakfast....Indeed, they are almost indispensable."(Quote by - Grimod de la Reyniere)


Oyster, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails!(Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)


The oyster is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not the letter R in their name. (Quote by - Henry Buttes)


The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. (Quote by - Andrew Carnegie)


An oyster may be crossed in love! Who says A whale's a bird?--Ha! did you call my love?-- He's here! He's there! he's everywhere! An me! he's nowhere! (Quote by - Richard Brinsley Sheridan)


I prefer my oysters fried;That way I know my oysters died. (Quote by - Roy Blount)


I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back. (Quote by - Edward Lear)


What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell. (Quote by - Edward Lear)



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