Forks Quotes

• Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

  Emily Post

  Feelings, Awareness Of Others, Behaviour

  Reader's Digest, Volume 68, 1956.

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• You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.

  Paul Prudhomme

  Food, Eating Good, Cooking

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• Everything revolves around the fork.

  Howard Lyman

  Vegetarian

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• I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.

  John Mayer

  Spoons, Use, Enough

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

  Jonathan Swift

  Hands, Knives, Eating

  Jonathan Swift (1857). “The works of Dean Swift: comprising A tale of a tub, The battle of the books, with thoughts and essays on various subjects, together with The Dean's advice to a young lady on her marriage”, p.373

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• If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Happiness, Baseball

  Yogi: It Ain't Over (1989)

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• Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.

  Will Rogers

  Civilization, Taught Us, Use

  Will Rogers (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Roosevelt Years, 1933-1935”

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• The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other.

  Mario Batali

  Food, Eating, Stills

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• Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Animal, Purpose

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.70, 谷月社

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• Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Funny, Peace, Ubuntu

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• I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.

  Mark Haddon

  Dog, Stories, Knows

  "The Curiously Irresistible Literary Debut of Mark Haddon". www.powells.com. October 10, 2006.

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• Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire Cat. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the Cat, 'it doesn't matter.

  Lewis Carroll

  Philosophical, Cat, Choices

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• The fork is your most powerful tool to change your health and the planet; food is the most powerful medicine to heal chronic illness.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Powerful, Health, Medicine

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• One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Bifurcation, Use, Development

  William Irwin Thompson (2015). “Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition”, p.95, Andrews UK Limited

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• Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

  Emily Post

  Honor, Important, Use

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• Food is much better off the hand than the fork.

  Mario Batali

  Food, Hands, Better Off

  "What I've Learned: The 10th Anniversary". www.esquire.com. December 17, 2007.

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• Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Powerful, Halloween

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 14

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• When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!

  Hattie McDaniel

  Mother, Knives, Use

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• And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times faster, just as a smaller tuning fork produces a higher pitch than a large one.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Moving, Tuning, Produce

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• 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

  Gun, Spoons, World

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.19, Ballantine Books

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• High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

  John Mayer

  School, Spoons, Useless

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• One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.

  Mike DeWine

  Journey, Years, Decision

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• In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Respect, Differences, Stories

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• Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Luck, Progress, Use

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• Stick a fork in him. He's done.

  Leo Durocher

  Baseball, Done, Sticks

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