124 Spoon Quotes

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Famous Spoon Quotes

If you can't tell a spoon from a ladle, then you're fat! - Demetri Martin

If you can't tell a spoon from a ladle, then you're fat! — Demetri Martin

I have a phobia of spoons I haven't used one in about 10 years — Liam Payne

Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate! — Paul Lynde

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks? — George Carlin

Once I cried in a restaurant because the waitress told me I couldn't eat my soup with a fork, I had to use a spoon. — Liam Payne

If your eyes hurt after you drink coffee, you have to take the spoon out of the cup. — Norm Crosby

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food. — Paul Prudhomme

I think the serving size of ice cream is when you hear the spoon hit the bottom of the container. — Brian Regan

Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt. — Scott Adams

The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail. — Wole Soyinka

A united family eats from the same plate. — African Proverbs

Ready...set-y...spaghetti! — Dan Wells

Spare your breath to cool your porridge. - Miguel de Cervantes

Spare your breath to cool your porridge. — Miguel de Cervantes

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner. — Sophia Loren

One who has burnt their mouth on milk, blows on yogurt to eat it. — Turkish Proverbs

Short Spoon Quotes

  • You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar. — Saint Francis de Sales
  • When the sea turned into honey, the poor lost his spoon. — Bulgarian Proverbs
  • You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring — Sandra Lee
  • I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth. — Pete Townshend
  • I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. — T. S. Eliot
  • One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey that with twenty casks of vinegar. — Henry IV of France
  • Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. — E. M. Forster
  • Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player. — Dean Smith
  • Give us this day our daily mask. — Tom Stoppard
  • A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. — Benjamin Franklin

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Silver Spoon Quotes

He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul. — Celia Thaxter

If someday, in a morning, you see you, in a mirror or the dent of a spoon, and wonder Where is my soul and Where has it gone, remember this: Catch the gaze of a woman on the metro, subway, tram. Look at a man. Seek and you will find you in the silvered space, a flash between souls. — Naomi Shihab Nye

A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success. — Kailash Kher

The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold. — Guy Finley

Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons? — Victor Hugo

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, Little boy blue and the man in the moon. "When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when, But we'll get together then. You know we'll have a good time then. — Harry Chapin

I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times! — Van Morrison

One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle. — Oliver Goldsmith

Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon. — Mitt Romney

I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth; I came from really humble beginnings - the projects of New York City - and I worked my way to get to where I am. — Adrienne Bailon

Wooden Spoon Quotes

My mom said the two most important kitchen utensils are attached to your arms... you cannot mix up meatballs with a wooden spoon, get in there, get your fingers dirty! — Rachael Ray

Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup. — Buddha

The Schnauzer listens to jazz. I listen to jazz because he likes it, and I have even gone to jazz concerts with him, but truthfully I would rather listen to retarded children pounding on pan lids with wooden spoons. — Augusten Burroughs

You have not been sticking your dirty fingers in my sauce,’’ Eve said, and pointed her wooden spoon at him. He quickly took the finger out of his mouth. ‘‘First off, they’re not dirty. I licked them first. — Rachel Caine

Spoonful Quotes

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger. — Anna Quindlen

Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven. — Barbara Kingsolver

Sunday night meant, in the dark, wintry, rainy Midlands ... anywhere where two creatures might stand and squeeze together and spoon.... Spooning was a fine art, whereas kissing and cuddling are calf-processes. — D. H. Lawrence

It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul. — Willie Dixon

I am too many flavors for one f***ing spoon. I want to erase the lines so I can be me. If we do not speak, who will? — Staceyann Chin

I usually dont like to spoon feed my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same. — The Weeknd

Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way. — James Randi

Women don't want all that. Women just want a partner who is considerate and attentive, who will spoon with them while reciting Keats, and feed them organic yogurt by candlelight on a seaside cliff at sunset. — Stephen Colbert

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water. — Yiddish Proverbs

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Silver Spoons Quotes

Seine and Piave are silver spoons, But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn — Stephen Vincent Benet

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. — Miguel de Cervantes

I was not, though, born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Despite what people seem to think. — Michael Audain

I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth. — David Burge

I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it. — Henry David Thoreau

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon Little boy blue and the man in the moon. — Harry Chapin

I feel cheesy when I see Silver Spoons. Some of it was funny, but some of it was just cheese! My kids love it, but I look at it and cringe. — Ricky Schroder

If you are born into a family with little money but a lot of love, you will find yourself more content than one who is born with a silver spoon and an empty home. — Jake T. Austin

The story of my life can be told in silver: in chocolate mills, serving spoons, and services for twelve. The story of my life has nothing to do with me. The story of my life is things. Things that aren’t mine, that won’t ever be mine. It’s all I’ve ever known. I wish it wasn’t. — Elizabeth Scott

To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed. — Brian Harris

Forks And Spoons Quotes

Forks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did — Theodore Zeldin

But one day I woke up and heard myself saying, I am a fork being used to eat cereal. I am not a spoon. I am a fork. And I can’t help people eat cereal any longer. — Rivka Galchen

When you see a knife, fork and a spoon it seems to me like there are two of them together on one side of a plate, and then there's one on the other. It seems like a couple and a singleton. It seems obvious to me! — Richard McGuire

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner. — John Lubbock

Don't be polite. Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin. It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are. You do not need a knife or fork or spoon. For there is no core or stem or rind or pit or seed or skin to throw away. — Eve Merriam

I'm still not certain on the nature of the spork, whether it is a fork and a spoon, or a fork and a knife mixed together, or maybe a fork and a fork on top. Life is full of mysteries yeah man — Thom Yorke

I've finally been able to trust and have intimacy with somebody, which I've never been able to do. Like a lot of guys, I just have a hard time getting that connected. I can actually sleep with her in my arms - spoons position, right? Women smile, they love the spoons. Men would rather fork. — Greg Fitzsimmons

They danced by the light of the moon. — Edward Lear

When people ask me which I would rather give up, writing or medicine, it's like being asked which eye I'd prefer to have poked out with a spoon: neither, and please use a fork. — Chris Adrian

You bought me some forks. And knives. And spoons. Because you love me! — Sarah Dessen

Teaspoon Quotes

Thank God, He doesn't measure out grace in teaspoons. — Amy Carmichael

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you. — Jim Rohn

The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its mother's back. — Sayings

I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment? — Jack LaLanne

What's the good of living if you don't try a few things? — Charles M. Schulz

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon. — Lionel Shriver

The Lord has an ocean to give. Don't come with teaspoons. — Kalki Bhagavan

Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation. — Anne Lamott

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank. — Arne Jacobsen

Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have. — J. K. Rowling

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More Spoon Quotes

If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful. — Adrian Frutiger

When we raise children, we don't exactly know what situations they will face. We don't spoon feed them the answer to every possible question. Rather we teach them how to find the answer themselves. AI, with its superior intelligence, will find the righteous answer to many of the questions it is bound to face on its own. — Mo Gawdat

But what I sincerely hope is that my life serves as a cautionary tale to the rich and poor alike; to anyone who's living with a spoon up their nose and a bunch of pills dissolving in their stomach sac; or to any person who's considering taking a God-given gift and misusing it; to anyone who decides to go to the dark side of the force and live a life of unbridled hedonism. And to anyone who thinks there's anything glamorous about being known as a Wolf of Wall Street. — Jordan Belfort

Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan]; wit, to be sure, but "Darkness at the break of noon/Shadows even the silver spoon/The handmade blade, the child's balloon/Eclipses both the sun and moon/To understand you know too soon/ There is no sense in trying"? No. — Bob Dylan

When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd? — Tom Stoppard

[on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks and silver sugar spoons and hay ricks and paper-covered novels and picture frames and rag carpets and toothpicks and skating rinks and birds of paradise and roof gardens and burdocks and French grammars before Sunday school time. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons. — Shirley Jackson

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. — Proverbs

When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon. — Navjot Singh Sidhu

They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. — Edward Lear

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