Quotes with oyster

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

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  • Barten Holyday A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Jonathan Swift He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
    Polite Conversation (1738)
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Jonathan Swift It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • C. Day Lewis No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
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  • Alistair Cooke People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Bradley Chicho Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time.
    Bradley Chicho
    English poet
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  • Andrew Carnegie The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • David Hume The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
    On Suicide
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Anatole France What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Jeremy Taylor What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of science is not able to make an oyster.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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