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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)

I live absolutely like an oyster. (Quote by - Gustave Flaubert)

Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open."(Quote by - William Shakespeare)

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell. (Quote by - John Bunyan)

Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)

Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell Forever in my native shell, Ordained to move when others please, Not for my own content or ease; But toss'd and buffeted about, Now in the water and now out. (Quote by - William Cowper)

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick, not wounded, dead. (Quote by - Woody Allen)

The world is his oyster. If you look at his game and his skills, he's got a huge serve, a very good tactical brain and other weapons. [on Andrew Murray] (Quote by - Jeremy Bates)

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