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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
Oysters are supposed to enhance your sexual performance, but they don't work for me. Maybe I put them on too soon. -- Garry Shandling
Oysters are more beautiful than any religion....Theres nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster. -- Hector Hugh Munro
I make a wicked clam chowdah, and linguine with clam sauce. Oysters I like to eat raw, and mussels in either a white wine sauce or in beer with paprika. -- Jim Himes
Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife, In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears with Pain New Oysters cry'd, nor sighs for chearful Ale -- John Phillips
O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one. -- Lewis Carroll
I live absolutely like an oyster. -- Gustave Flaubert
My taste includes both snails and oysters. -- Marcus Licinius Crassus
Poverty and oysters always seem to go together. -- Charles Dickens
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. -- Jonathan Swift
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. -- Federico Fellini
Minds are like oysters. They spoil if you pry them open. -- Willa Gibbs
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. -- Andrew Carnegie
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster -- William Shakespeare
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead. -- Woody Allen
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. -- Zora Neale Hurston
I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals. -- George Berkeley
We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters. -- Roger Moore
What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell. -- Edward Lear
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all. -- Nicolas Chamfort
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. -- William Shakespeare
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. -- Eleanor Clark
Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total. -- Bobby Jindal
Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply 'In my mother's womb, probably as a result of the oysters and Champagne.' -- Isadora Duncan
She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it. -- Elizabeth Montagu
Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around. -- Sylvia Earle
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. -- William Cowper
As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans. -- Ernest Hemingway
Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they? -- Michael Fassbender
Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters. -- Bertrand Russell
Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes -- Christie Brinkley
I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood. -- Kenneth Tynan
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New England oysters are better than Chesapeake. But Chesapeake blue crabs are unbeatable. -- Jim Himes
She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight. -- Juvenal
Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine... -- Jimmy Buffett
A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes! -- Kurt Vonnegut
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms. -- Barbara Walters
A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas. -- Hugh Bonneville
I really like oysters, and I won't eat them alone. They're just a weird thing to eat by yourself. -- Katie Aselton
Before modern medicine, would pussies just generally rot up inside you and fall out of you like spoiled oysters on the sidewalk? -- Doug Stanhope
Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything. -- Nicolas Chamfort
When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous. -- Paul Merton
It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters. -- Stephen King
On writers' workshops: "It is the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters." -- Stephen King
She was my friend because she was kind and funny but she had a face like two oysters fused together in a Star Trek matter transporter accident. -- Andrew Hinkinson
It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried. -- Dolly Parton
There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls. -- Sheila Ballantyne
I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters on the half shell, and act slutty. -- Rebecca Wells
Do not listen to the killjoys who tell you never to eat oysters in months that do not contain the letter R: May, June, July, August, Octoba. You know. -- John Hodgman
It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable. -- Hannah Arendt
....oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily. -- Jules Verne
You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. -- Hector Hugh Munro
I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations. -- Vladimir Nabokov
I like romantic dates - going on a long walk in Central Park and then taking the subway downtown and going out to eat and ordering oysters. After that, you walk around again and talk. -- Ansel Elgort
Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis. -- Ray Romano
I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure -- Anthony Bourdain

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