“Therfore bihoveth hire a ful long spoon
That shal ete with a feend.”
The Squire's Tale, l. 594-95
The Canterbury Tales
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“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
“Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.”
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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“A Horse, a Bucket and a Spoon.”
Graham Chapman A Liar's Autobiography (London: Eyre Methuen, 1980) p. 152.
Jones' suggested title for the show that was eventually named Monty Python's Flying Circus.
“Start with a shovel, wind up with a spoon”
Rolling Stone Magazine interview, March 1970 http://crosstowntorrents.org/archive/index.php/t-1112.html
About the Proposed Amendment to the Constitution that would ban nepotism in public sectors. Câmara discute nesta terça projeto que proíbe nepotismo nos três Poderes http://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/vida-publica/camara-discute-nesta-terca-projeto-que-proibe-nepotismo-nos-tres-poderes-ae4kwcuwkopja36kryzji3w3y. Gazeta do Povo (5 March 2007).
“A man that's fond precociously of stirring,
Must be a spoon.”
Morning Meditations (1839), St. 10.
1830s
“There is no spoon. I am completely spoonless over here.”
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