I've read every oyster book there is, and I always look at oysters first on any menu.

That's a first line many have heard, whether or not they've read the book.

Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.

It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that poverty and oysters always seem to go together."

He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.