Quotes and Sayings about Oysters
"Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all."
- Nicolas De Chamfort
(Related: Men, Eating, End, First)
"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."
- Sylvia Earle
(Related: Time, Fish, Oysters, Pretty)
"Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total."
- Bobby Jindal
(Related: Time, Economy, Fishermen, Harm, Living, Oysters)
"She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it."
- Elizabeth Montagu
(Related: Ladies, Opinion, Oysters, Party)
"We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters."
- Roger Moore
(Related: France, Oysters)
"You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed."
- Hector Hugh Munro
(Related: Love, Soul, Being, Instinct, Man, Oysters)
"Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood."
- Kenneth Tynan
(Related: Disease, Hollywood, Oysters)