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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.


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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT 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 Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.
W.B. YEATS When you watch Robin Williams, you can see a lot of Jonathan Winters. Robin is the first one to admi...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED The most brilliant satire of all time was 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift. You'll ...
P. J. O'ROURKE The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
DAVID HUME An oyster has hardly any more reasoning power than a scientist has; and so it it is reasonably certa...
MARK TWAIN Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. -Jonath...
JONATHAN SWIFT I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he ha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn’s for an oyster supper.
MICHAEL COX The non-native oyster was eaten seven times as fast as our native oyster. That was true for all size...
CHARLES PETERSON I look so fondly back on that time in my life when you first got an agent and you were in your mid-t...
KATIE LOWES It's what Jonathan Swift suggested two and a half centuries ago: making two blades of grass grow whe...
MARTIN BELL He was a relieved man; he was an angry man.
ROBERT LUDLUM Mike Judge is my Jonathan Swift, and I say that because I don't know any other satirists. But th...
T. J. MILLER When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always though...
ROBIN WILLIAMS "Be bold!" first gate; "Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold," second gate; "Be not too bold!" ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he ...
BIBLE It's a bold first step.
COLLEEN REITAN I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my ow...
ALDOUS HUXLEY For a while, we just ate like that, a sick old man, a healthy, younger man, both absorbing the quiet...
MITCH ALBOM Jonathan controls the front seven, gets everyone lined up and takes care of the blitz package. He's ...
DAVID GIBBS Yeah, my father is an egotistical douchebag," he says roughly. "My name literally means Jonathan emp...
KRISTA RITCHIE The organization man is dead. He thrived when smokestack America thrived. When airlines, banks and t...
BRUCE NUSSBAUM This was an incredibly horrible tragedy. A tragedy for the Swift family and a tragedy for the Morgan...
FERN ADELSTEIN He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor t...
EMILY DICKINSON Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the in...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD When does a man die? When he is hit by a bullet? No! When he suffers a disease? No! When he ate a so...
EIICHIRō ODA He was a great manager. He led Texas to its first division title, but he was more than that. He was ...
MARK MCLEMORE She was like an avenging angel, her vengeance swift and deadly.
CASSANDRA CLARE The Church has lost a great warrior and the country has lost a great patriot who will long be rememb...
BILLY GRAHAM The way he carried himself as a man. He was a friend to everyone first, before he was a politician.
TOM WATTS This is always a good time. Everybody enjoys an oyster feast.
BYRON DAVIS That was the first time he told me he loved me and he was proud of me. He wasn't a very emotional ma...
LARRY GARZA He’s not a rough diamond - a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic; he’s a fierce, pitiless, wolfi...
EMILY BRONTë If that happens, that oyster will not come back ever unless you dump oyster shells,
DAVID HEIL The Doktor was an old man. When he was a kid, his Dad bought him a chemistry set. He never played wi...
CHRISTINA ENGELA He may be a scholar, but he’s first a man who believes—with certain justification—that he was ...
ROBERT LUDLUM Even a grain of sand united with an oyster can make a pearl.
TRUTH DEVOUR Man is more likely to believe an opinion that he wanted to hear … than a fact that he wishes was a...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA He did it. We know he did it. This is about whether that was the sole, individual intervening cause ...
CARL CORNWELL Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
CHARLES DICKENS An oyster shell opened up after the 2002 Olympics.
LARRY BLOOM If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.
JOHN BUNYAN The midget, ... the first time he rode the bike that he comes out on, he just gassed it, man. He pul...
VINCE NEIL Before the war an apple tree had stood behind the church. It was an apple tree that ate its own appl...
HERTA MüLLER There was nothing abstract or theoretical in his world. The stars had no significance. The sky was n...
WARREN EYSTER Law enforcement was fully justified and acted in an efficient, professional and swift manner.
PHILL KLINE He often ate in a delicate manner.
LIU BIN There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ...
H. H. MUNRO Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to c...
PLINY THE ELDER A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was wiser than...
STEPHEN CRANE He was an outstanding professional man.
HENK POLS And now they keep an oyster shop for mermaids down below.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES One of my greatest inspirations for stand-up was Jonathan Winters. He was a genius. One thing about ...
ROBERT KLEIN He told them that he knew it was fake and that he had gotten it from an unknown man.
YVONNE MARTINEZ A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet unt...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD My first love is film, always. I wanted to be an actor. That was my dream as a young man,
JOE SIMPSON He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as ...
JAMES FINN GARNER One Thanksgiving, we ate at his house, ... We watched old film, and I got to see his retired jersey ...
WILLIE LANIER But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD's oath th...
BIBLE My first celeb crush was Hanson. I loved all three of them. My sister and I would always fight, and ...
ASHLEY BENSON The Word that will change a man must first show the man who he really is.
CHRISTIAN MICHAEL He was an innocent man all along.
GARY CRABTREE When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
STANLEY KUBRICK No man can resist a woman who has an apple in her hand. It's theological. A woman with an apple in h...
PIA PERA [Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and p...
PRIMO LEVI I think Marquette Park is one of our pearls in an oyster that we need to shine up.
RUDY CLAY [He says he does have a favorite person to work with:] [Tom] Cruise, man. No contest. He was very ki...
JERRY MAGUIRE He drove like an old man. He would only go 55 miles an hour. And he didn't drive fast. That was just...
DEBRA NEEL A pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON He came back with a huge bowl. I'm sure there was half a gallon, and I ate the whole thing.
BOB GIULIANI I've read every oyster book there is, and I always look at oysters first on any menu.
JON DIEBOLD Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.
ERIC CLAPTON I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.
EVAN DANDO I've known Jonathan for years, and I see no indication that he would ever go about things in a cover...
PAUL WATSON I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
MARIE CURIE A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to re...
SALVADOR DALI The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to ...
SALVADOR DALI The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to re...
SALVADOR DALí The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to re...
SALVADOR DALí He is old school. He's not a friend to the students, he's an authority figure. He is type of faculty...
JANE MOORE He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower ...
DOUGLAS JERROLD Dane was a really good student; really happy, gregarious. He was just a special kid. He was an excep...
BERNARD ROGERS Thus, in the boy’s mind, drink and destruction braided together. Intoxication, he concluded, was a...
KELSEY BRICKL People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and...
ALISTAIR COOKE He lived, ate and breathed showbiz,
ANDREW SOLT If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us al...
EDWARD FITZGERALD We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell.
PLATO We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell
PLATO Jonathan has been a star of the company for a generation and we are all thrilled that he will remain...
TONY HALL He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to h...
HERODOTUS The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
OSCAR WILDE Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, wore white on the day he was to kill a king […] Whit...
BRANDON SANDERSON The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate i...
THAKSIN SHINAWATRA The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate i...
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JONATHAN SWIFT All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this ye...
JONATHAN SWIFT In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends
JONATHAN SWIFT It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
JONATHAN SWIFT Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us th...
JONATHAN SWIFT Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller...
JONATHAN SWIFT The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowde...
JONATHAN SWIFT