John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
10445 Appendix John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 10445 |
| AUTHOR: | Appendix |
| QUOTATION: | Months without an R. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in their name to eat an oyster.—Samuel Butler: Dyet’s Dry Dinner. (1599.) |