Bold Quote by Jonathan Swift

He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.

— Jonathan Swift

“He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating of oysters.”

— James VI & I

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

— Shirley Chisholm

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

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 had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

— George Berkeley

“An oyster has hardly any more reasoning power than a scientist has; and so it it is reasonably certain that this one jumped to…

— Mark Twain

“Oyster, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails!”

— Ambrose Bierce

“Shall the world, then, be overrun by oysters?”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive the arrows…

— M. F. K. Fisher

“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

Almost any normal oyster never knows from one year to the next whether he is he or she, and may start at any moment,…

— M. F. K. Fisher