Quotes for National Oyster Day

In honor of a seafood lover’s favorite aphrodisiac

Whether they eat them for the taste, the nutritional benefits, or because they’re an aphrodisiac, seafood lovers can celebrate the oyster on August 5, which is National Oyster Day. Below are some quotes to honor this seafood favorite.

1. “He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.” -Jonathan Swift 2. “In the sea of my emotions, his presence is like a pearl in the oyster. Very hard to locate, yet very precious and still beautiful.” -Mehek Bassi

3. “Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.” -Rumi

4. “Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson?” -Arthur Conan Doyle

5. “Oysters are supposed to enhance your sexual performance, but they don’t work for me. Maybe I put them on too soon.” -Garry Shandling

6. “The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.” -Andrew Carnegie

7. “You’re enough to try the patience of an oyster!” -Lewis Carroll

8. “The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.” -Oscar Wilde

9. “A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer’s mouth without a fee.” -Barten Holyday

10. “I live absolutely like an oyster.” -Gustave Flaubert

11. “I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.” -Zora Neale Hurston 12. “A lover’s a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!” -Kurt Vonnegut

13. “We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.” -Plato 14. “The pearl on my beloved’s neck, Afflicted sore the oyster!” -Bhartrhari

15. “Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.” -Charles Dickens

16. “The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.” -David Hume 17. “I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.” -George Berkeley

18. “What strikes the oyster shell doesn’t damage the pearl.” -Rumi 19. “So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?” -Billy Connolly

20. “Minds are like oysters. They spoil if you pry them open.” -Willa Gibbs

21. “Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time.” -Bradley Chicho 22. “Sand irritates the oyster and the oyster responds by becoming a beautiful pearl. Allow difficulties to serve your transformation in the blossoming consciousness that you are.” -Anonymous 23. “The world is an oyster, but you don’t crack it open on a mattress.” -Arthur Miller 24. “The world is your oyster. It’s up to you to find the pearls.” -Chris Gardner

25. “Never serve oysters in a month that has no paycheck in it.” -P. J. O’Rourke 26. “Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them.” -Joseph B. Wirthlin 27. “Oyster, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails!” -Ambrose Bierce

28. “It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster’s shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.” -Stephen King 29. “Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes.” -Christie Brinkley

30. “The truth in every myth is the pearl in every oyster.” -J. Earp

31. “Oysters are the usual opening to a winter breakfast. Indeed, they are almost indispensable.” -Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière

32. “Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.” -Christian Nestell Bovee 33. “Obviously, if you don’t love life, you can’t enjoy an oyster.” -Eleanor Clark

34. “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

35. “It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods.” -Jean-Paul Sartre

36. “Pearls. Take, like an oyster, your irritations, your pain. Use these to create your masterpiece.” -Jessica de la Davies

37. “Describing Ostend oysters: ‘small and rich, looking like little ears enfolded in shells, and melting between the palate and the tongue like salted sweets.’” -Guy de Maupassant

38. “For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.” -John Banville 39. “An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life.” -M. F. K. Fisher

40. “As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” -Ernest Hemingway

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