Quotes by Oysters Minds are like oysters. They spoil if you pry them open. Willa Gibbs spoil oysters mind 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 oysters water moving I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable. William Makepeace Thackeray oysters sauce bread Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster. William Shakespeare oysters honesty house Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. William Shakespeare oysters mines world I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster William Shakespeare oysters love-you may I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead. Woody Allen oysters witty food 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 oysters fool may I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston black-history knives oysters «12345678