Quotes of Shellfish - somelinesforyou

“ Why then the worlds mine oyster, Which I with sword shall open. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed — Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed! ”

- Lewis Carroll

“ He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead — not sick, not wounded — dead. ”

- Woody Allen

“ I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals. ”

- George Berkeley

“ It was a bold person that first ate an oyster. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that poverty and oysters always seem to go together. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ A pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell. ”

- George Louis Leclerc de Buffon

“ Why, then the world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. - The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me Can you give me a lift? I said Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it. ”

- Tommy Cooper

“ A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop? ”

- Donald Trump

“ Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood. ”

- Kenneth Tynan

“ All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ We were still getting some oysters from waters in Louisiana and Texas and those may stop as soon as Rita makes landfall. ”

- Bob Jones

“ If you work on a lobster boat, sneaking up behind someone and pinching him is probably a joke that gets old real fast. ”

- Jack Handey

“ The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. ”

- David Hume

“ Hey, we all have our fear. Mine is bugs and lobsters! ”

- Brooke Burke

“ We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters. ”

- Roger Moore

“ There is so much natural bloom (juvenile oyster stock) in the water,... We try to optimize the culture methods. ”

- Roger Williams

“ I got a B.A. from Hunter College, worked as a school teacher, a lobster salesman, and a literary agent before being published. ”

- Evan Hunter

“ I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do. I learned that at a young age. ”

- Chris Evert

“ Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... there's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster. ”

- Saki

“ I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean. ”

- Brooke Burke

“ Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands. ”

- Lord Byron

“ There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster. ”

- H. H. Munro

“ Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. ”

- Andrew Carnegie
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