Oyster Quote by George Berkeley Download Open image “I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.” — George Berkeley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Oyster Stupid
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Oysters are a lot like women. It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty.” — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
“1. "It is what we believe about ourselves that determines how others see us" 2. (regarding friends) "cherish the good and pretend not to… — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of… — Eleanor Clark Copy Share Image
“Oyster, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails!” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
The method of Fluxions is the general key by help whereof the modern mathematicians unlock the secrets of Geometry, and consequently of Nature. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers,… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Atheism ... that bugbear of women and fools ... is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum to which… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
A cocktail and an oyster is an awfully good thing after a park, especially one close to water. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful before all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
My first concert - maybe it was 1979 - was a blur. I'm not sure whether it was Blue Oyster Cult/Cheap Trick/Pat Travers at… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is his oyster,… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open,… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd say this, but to any child listening, the world is your oyster. — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
“Oyster, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails!” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image