When God made the oyster, he guaranteed his absolute economic and social security. He built the oyster a house, his shell, to shelter and protect him from his enemies... But when God made the Eagle, He declared, "The blue sky is the limit—build your own house!"… The Eagle, not the oyster, is the emblem of America.
It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in their names to eat an oyster.
'Twere better to be born a stoneNow in the water and now out.
Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that poverty and oysters always seem to go together.
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.
An oyster may be crossed in love! Who saysAh me! he's nowhere!
He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.