“And now they keep an oyster shop for mermaids down below.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“I think every little girl's dream is to be a mermaid or to see a mermaid. [When I was younger] I would go to the beach and cover myself in the sand. People from different cultures and centuries have the same idea of what mermaids are ... so that's maybe a cool thing to think about.”
Emma Roberts
“Mermaid Avenue Vol. II,”
Billy Bragg
“I've read every oyster book there is, and I always look at oysters first on any menu.”
Jon Diebold
““So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?””
Billy Connolly
“We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell”
Plato
“Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster”
William Shakespeare