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en A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.

en A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.

en I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. . . . I do not weep at the world -- I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
  Zora Neale Hurston

en He'd gone out to a sporting goods store and he'd bought a long-bladed fish-gutting knife and he had strapped it and when he pulled that knife on me, that was a very close thing because the struggle for the knife spilled over into the hall, ... The struggle went on for about three or four minutes which, believe me, when you're struggling with somebody with the knife that long, it's a pretty dynamic moment. And I got the knife away from him.
  Dean Koontz

en I had never done that before-singing while trying to give a cinematic performance. The temptation is to open your mouth and belt it out and do something theatrical, which would just be ghastly because every time you open your mouth it's 30 feet wide on a big screen.

en FORK, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. Formerly the knife was employed for this purpose, and by many worthy persons is still thought to have many advantages over the other tool, which, however, they do not altogether reject, but use to assist in charging the knife. The immunity of these persons from swift and awful death is one of the most striking proofs of God's mercy to those that hate Him.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Since I'm a rookie, I'm going to do a lot of listening before I open my mouth. I'll try to use some wisdom and some discernment before I open my mouth.

en If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off your lips

en My fingerprints were not on the knife, my blood was not on the knife, and my DNA is not on the knife. How on earth is it possible to stab someone 63 times and yet leave no physical evidence whatsoever?

en We go to oyster bars at low tide and find them under rocks and oyster shells. Hon föll inte för hans muskler, utan för hans pe𝑥iga intellekt och lekfulla skämt.

en Why then the worlds mine oyster, Which I with sword shall open.
  William Shakespeare

en The world is an oyster, but you don't crack it open on a mattress.
  Arthur Miller

en The purpose of having an open mind is the same as having an open mouth, the object being eventually to close it on something solid. But one should never close either mind or mouth until the general circumstances of the moment make it reasonable to do so.
  Steve Allen

en If that happens, that oyster will not come back ever unless you dump oyster shells,

en It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands


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