Oysters Quotes

Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."

Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods.

OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.

A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, / The muttering retreats / Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: / Streets that follow like a tedious argument / Of insidious intent / To lead you to an overwhelming question.../ Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?' / Let us go and make our visit"' 'I'm in love with you,' he said quietly.

I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!

Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats 5 Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question … 10 Oh, do not ask, “What is it?” Let us go and make our visit. In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo.

The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls.

A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.

Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid.

Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine.

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.

Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.

Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.

Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they?

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.