All Quotes, Oyster

25+ Oyster Quotes

The oyster is a sea animal. Oysters are known for producing pearls. Oyster is the only natural source of pearls. This is a collection of 28 quotes on oyster and oyster sayings.

What strikes the oyster shell doesn't damage the pearl. - Rumi
The world is an oyster, but you don't crack it open on a mattress. - Arthur Miller
Minds are like oysters. They spoil if you pry them open. - Willa Gibbs
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. - Theodore Roosevelt
An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. - M. F. K. Fisher
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. - Urban Saying
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements. - Christian Nestell Bovee
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. - David Hume
There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls. - Sheila Ballantyne
The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the shell and the flesh. - Ian Gardner
We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell. - Plato
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. - Andrew Carnegie
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
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. - Theodore Roosevelt
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster? - C. S. Lewis
The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. - Gore Vidal
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
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. - David Hume
The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls. - Chris Gardner
We girls aren't supposed to fall for the good boys.We are supposed to like a bit of grit in our oyster.That's how you get a pearl, after all. - James Lovegrove
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Federico Fellini
It's important that your shucked oyster is clean and pristine. - Tom Douglas
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
Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster. - William Shakespeare
Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood. - Kenneth Tynan
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
Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time. - Bradley Chicho
Wisdom is a pearl whose oyster is truth. - Matshona Dhliwayo
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