<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Oysters - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA['Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none,  Than with a tenderness like mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45352]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none,  Than with a tenderness like mine   And sensibilities so fine!    Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell     Forever in my native shell,      Ordained to move when others please,       Not for my own content or ease;        But toss'd and buffeted about,         Now in the water and now out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that poverty and oysters always seem to go together." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45354]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that poverty and oysters always seem to go together."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An oyster may be crossed in love! Who says A whale's a bird?--Ha! did you call my love?--  He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45356]]></link><description><![CDATA[An oyster may be crossed in love! Who says A whale's a bird?--Ha! did you call my love?--  He's here! He's there! he's everywhere!   An me! he's nowhere!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a bold man that first eat an oyster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45357]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oyster is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not the letter R in their name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oyster is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not the letter R in their name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17016]]></link><description><![CDATA[If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17016</guid></item></channel></rss>