Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.