Famous quotes containing the words oyster and/or perpetual:
“I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“What a perpetual disappointment is actual society, even of the virtuous and gifted! After interviews have been compassed with long foresight, we must be tormented presently by baffled blows, by sudden, unseasonable apathies, by epilepsies of wit and of animal spirits, in the heyday of friendship and thought. Our faculties do not play us true, and both parties are relieved by solitude.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)