Quotes of: Silver-spoon Keyword

The devil sweetens another man's wife with a spoonful of honey.

French

He who has no spoon will burn his hands.

Mauritanian

He who sups with the devil should have a long spoon.

Traditional

Sally: Lunch! Dr. Finkelstein: Mm, what's this? [sniffs] Dr. Finkelstein: Wormswort! Mmm... [prepares to take a bite but then sniffs suspiciously] Dr. Finkelstein: ...And frog's breath? Sally: [innocently] What's wrong? I thought you *liked* frog's b...

The Nightmare Before Christmas

We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence—crowned as it has been by the recent creation of the earth's greatest wonder, MAN, can be set aside, or its seemingly necessary result withhe...

George Poulett Scrope

I'll bite: Hard science TA's and RA's often repair equipment; it's part of our science. If you want a silver spoon, don't go to grad school. Science is all about dangerous chemicals, semi-safe experimental equipment, and 4am drives down gravel roads ...

Life

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

E. M. Forster

Teddy Brewster: Mr. Witherfork! Mr. Witherspoon: Spoon! [Mortimer hands him a spoon]

Arsenic and Old Lace

When the sea turned into honey, the beggar lost his spoon.

Bulgarian

Food tastes best when you eat it with your own spoon.

Danish

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

Yiddish

Icey Spoon: What could have possessed that girl? Rev. Harry Powell: Satan. Icey Spoon: Ah.

The Night of the Hunter

More flies are caught with a spoonful of syrup than with a barrel full of vinegar.

Dutch

One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey than with twenty casks of vinegar.

French

One who speaks fair words feeds you with an empty spoon.

Italian

Do not put your spoon into the pot which does not boil for you.

Romanian

I’ve come to the end of another book alive. At times like this I’m always at a loss for words.

Sailing in a Spoonful of Water

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

Mick Jagger

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

Love

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

Welsh

When the sea turned into honey, the poor man lost his spoon.

Bulgarian