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Tag Name "Oyster" (70)

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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.
Ambrose Bierce
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So I was getting into my car and this bloke says to me, 'Can you give me a lift?' I said, 'Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it!'
Tim Vine
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From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.
Victor Hugo
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I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster
William Shakespeare
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I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.
William Shakespeare
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Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.
Louisa May Alcott
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The pearl on my beloved's neck, Afflicted sore the oyster!
Bhartrhari
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Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.
Marcel Proust
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Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.
Carol Ann Duffy
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I think that's okay and that is part of growing up and that is good, to learn that the world isn't always your oyster or isn't everybody's oyster.
Morgan Saylor
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
Oscar Wilde
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Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.
Christopher Morley
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Although oyster mushrooms have been studied extensively and support health in a number of ways, it is also extremely important to always cook oyster mushrooms!
Paul Stamets
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The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
David Hume
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Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.
Randall Jarrell
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I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.
Edward Lear
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I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.
Richard Eyre
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Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.
Eleanor Clark
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What strikes the oyster shell doesn't damage the pearl.
Rumi
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Even though I found you on an ordinary day, it felt like I found a precious pearl in an oyster when I deep dived into the sea. Baby, you are really that precious to me.
Fiona Apple
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.
Sallust
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Me, I'm complicated. But it's a living, I tell myself. Also, every once in a long while this disease manages to produce a fine and beautiful truth--as (they say) some oyster illness makes the wondrously perfect pearl.
Frank Loesser
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