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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

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

When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit. — Hildegard Of Bingen

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

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. — Cyril Connolly

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

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

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

My old hidden dreams that I thought buried for all time lie bare and naked to the day, just as the shells and the stones do on the sands — Daphne Du Maurier

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

The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells - there is no Deity. — R.H. Blyth

Today, however, she didn't go looking for urchins or broken shells. She simply walked to the end of the earth and stood a while. — John Burnside

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

It amazes me, how the pursuit of wisdom tends to turn people into shells of their former selves. — J.M. Darhower

You know that's why mermaids swim around topless all the time, right? It's because their boobs are too big and all bras are C shells. — H.M. Ward

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

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

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

They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Only the balance of the scale, bedded love in the shells, teaches us to find the inner self. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour. — Bel Kaufman

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

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

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

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

What you discover about life's shell game is that it's hardest to follow the pea when you're the pea. — Robert Breault

He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
[Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.] — Plautus

Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore. — Corey Hart

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell. — Plautus

I had drawn away into the salt,
myself, a shell
emptied of life. — Hilda Doolittle

In a nut shell, air travel is the worst part about touring. — Eric Burdon

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity. — Frances Harper

Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help. — Tom Duff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's the old shell game. — Dan Rather

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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