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It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should? — Epictetus

Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland. — Cormac McCarthy

A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God! — William Beveridge

Their methods were especially crude and most of these former friends were now born again model citizens; lobotomized; or burnt out shells. — H.M. Forester

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self. — Jerzy Kosinski

A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A baby's feet. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I know that a creed is the shell of a lie. — Amy Lowell

If I replaced my ears with conch shells, would you surf on the sound waves? — Jarod Kintz

Had I told the sea what I felt for you, it would have left its shores, its shells, its fish, and followed me.
- Nizar Qabbani — Nizar Qabbani

By 1917, thanks to the new munitions factories and the women that worked in them, the British Empire was supplying more than 50 million shells a year. — Saul David

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells. — Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells. — Richard Paul Evans

Like hermit crabs, addictions are resourceful impersonators hidden in vacated snail shells, protecting soft bodies in borrowed homes. Not — Caryl Ann Casbon

Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale. — John Milton

He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells ... — William S. Burroughs

What we wear is the shell of who we are. — Audrey Tautou

How impossibly clean-cut, with its twin sets of twelve, neat as walnut shells. — Karen Thompson Walker

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. — Karl Kraus

If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and listen, you will hear an alibi. — Fred Beck

Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you. — Bryan Brown

All I can say to people who hate their mothers for giving birth to them is "get the fuck out of your scaredy shells and kiss the world". — Jay Woodman

If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music. — Maurice Ravel

It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back to hit you. — Ernest Rutherford

One man's fight is another man's freedom. — Carla H. Krueger

up shells, and waded at the water's edge, — Danielle Steel

Put your hands where I can see 'em, so they look like 12 PM
On the dot, see this Glock? Don't make me give these shells freedom. — Elzhi

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell. — Plato

Our bodies are simply our shells, the package for the spirit and the soul. — Eric Samuel Timm

I guess we all have some of these - memories like artillery shells, fired at close range. — Lauren Oliver

The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow. — D.T. Suzuki

The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early. — Anais Nin

Two broken shards, two drained batteries, two men who were merely shells. What — Cambria Hebert

If ELF don't exist, I would just be an empty shell — Leeteuk

It's been my experience that those with the toughest shells have the softest hearts — Richard Paul Evans

Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block. — Janine Benyus

In my experience, telling someone to switch Unix shells for ease of use is like telling him to switch cigarette brands for his health. — Chris Espinosa

I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face. — Aristophanes

One cannot collect all the beautful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps
adjusting the ash heaps;
opening and shutting itself like
an
injured fan. — Marianne Moore

Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word! — Gaston Bachelard

A man who can own pearls does not bother about shells, and those who aspire to virtue do not trouble themselves over honors. — Francis De Sales

All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out Â£17 for economical? — Howard Jacobson

I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don't bring puka shells back. You've got to be careful of your vacation purchases. — Josh Homme

The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail. — James Longstreet

Rang in my ears like Easter morning churchbells in Rome, rumble from an unmuffled Harley, fireworks shells exploding over a Fourth-of-July parade. — Dennis Vickers

Men are like turtles; they are classified and valued according to their shells. In — Jose Rizal

Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store. — Saadi

Sir Isaac Newton is said to have avowed that he felt like a child picking up shells beside the great and unexplored ocean of truth. — Mary Shelley

What strikes the oyster shell
doesn't damage the pearl. — Rumi

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious. — Walter Savage Landor

Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells. — Tennessee Ernie Ford

Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces. — Hervey Allen

Q: How do you tell when there's an elephant in the pit?
A: Peanut shells on the floor. — Bucky Sinister

The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell. — Meister Eckhart

The masks. that men have as faces, the outward shells they hold up for others to see while their minds shift in hidden directions. Discard 2 — Lois Charles

I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved. — Andy Rooney

As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are
the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in
much poison. — Ovid

Without ELF, I'm just an empty shell. I'll always love E.L.F., even if E.L.F. already forgot about SJ. — Leeteuk

The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life. — Sylvia Plath

I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere. — Dan Shechtman

It's the old shell game. — Dan Rather

As an actor, you've got to live and learn, and you gotta just kind of form a hard shell and be confident in yourself. — Jessica Stroup

I can't do nuttin' for you man

Go lean on shells answer man
I can't do nuttin' for ya man
You jumped out of the jelly into a jam — Flava Flav

I want to live my life without filters. I don't walk on egg shells. I say what I want and I'm a very free spirit. — Demi Lovato

Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells ... Easy to crush. — Melissa Marr

There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up. — Elliot Johnson

Miss Sarah Pocket, whom I now saw to be a little dry brown corrugated old woman, with a small face that might have been made of walnut shells ... — Charles Dickens

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell. — Friedrich Nietzsche

As soon as we get out of our urban shell, we're still at the mercy of nature as individuals. — Julia Kent

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire. — Robert Louis Stevenson

At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or something. — Joshua Greenberg

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument. — Sappho

If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell. — William Shakespeare

reeking of sewage and rotting corpses, burned-out shells of houses, feral dogs — Rick Yancey

The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside. — Sam Vaknin

I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game. — W.C. Fields

We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun. — Taisen Deshimaru

Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through. — Learned Hand

Britney [Spears]'s actually kind of like a broken-down shell of a human being, that's what makes her so endearing and compelling. — Moby

Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life. — Edward Weston

Within the oyster's shell uncouth
The purest pearl may hide,
Trust me you'll find a heart of truth
Within that rough outside. — Frances Sargent Osgood

It is easier to port a shell than a shell script. — Larry Wall

The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth. — Giovanni Battista Brocchi

I have a hobby. I have the world's largest collection of sea shells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen some of it. — Steven Wright

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells. — Khalil Gibran

Theta loved pretty things more than air or food. She had a deep fondness for full red roses, pink shells, and starry sunsets. — Lena Goldfinch

Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case ... — Tupac Shakur

People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell. — Jackson Pollock

E canchis amnia.
Everything from shells. — Erasmus Darwin

Went to get coffee today-opened my change purse. Sea shells fell out. Barista goes "Sorry, we only take cash or credit." So there's that. — Taylor Swift

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own. — Ken Thompson

I don't want someone shoving his views down my throat, unless they're covered in a crunchy candy shell. — Stephen Colbert

Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone. — John Ruskin

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean. — Henry Grunwald

Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat. — Jimmy Buffett

Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells. — Tom Stoppard

Perhaps we are all shells; but some of us have found the pearls inside, and this makes all the difference! — C. JoyBell C.