He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating…

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

— Eleanor Clark

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

I went up to the camp and Paul had me eat my first oyster I had never had an oyster in my life. And…

— Jerry Seinfeld

“Even a grain of sand united with an oyster can make a pearl.”

— Truth Devour

From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.

— Confucius

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

— Oscar Wilde

“But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”

— David Hume

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

— Ambrose Bierce

A cocktail and an oyster is an awfully good thing after a park, especially one close to water.

— Chris Thile

An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I blurbed a nice book, not at all like my book 'The Big Oyster,' called 'The Essential Oyster.' I blurbed a pretty good book…

— Mark Kurlansky

“I think about pearls. Pearls are congealed oyster spit.”

— Margaret Atwood

“A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the…

— Stephan Hoeller

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are…

— Yotam Ottolenghi