“Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
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“Therfore bihoveth hire a ful long spoon
That shal ete with a feend.”
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The Canterbury Tales
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Terry Jones (1942–2020) Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director and author
Graham Chapman A Liar's Autobiography (London: Eyre Methuen, 1980) p. 152.
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Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter
Rolling Stone Magazine interview, March 1970 http://crosstowntorrents.org/archive/index.php/t-1112.html
“A man that's fond precociously of stirring,
Must be a spoon.”
Thomas Hood (1799–1845) British writer
Morning Meditations (1839), St. 10.
1830s
“There is no spoon. I am completely spoonless over here.”
Jim Butcher book Ghost Story
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“Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book IV, Ch. 73.