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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• Everything revolves around the fork.

  Howard Lyman

  Vegetarian

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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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• 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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• 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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• Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

  Dean Koontz

  Fate, Different, Path

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.149, Bantam

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

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Funny, Peace, Ubuntu

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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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• A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.

  Bob Dylan

  Cutting, Knives, People

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

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Luck, Progress, Use

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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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• 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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• 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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• The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.

  Rachel Blanchard

  Brother, Children, Nice

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

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• I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Way

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• As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.

  Mario Batali

  Knives, Eating, Cooks

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January/February 2004.

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• If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

  Sam Snead

  Sports, Golf, Knives

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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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• They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party.

  William Henry Ashley

  Spring, Party, Winter

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• I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Sports, Kids, Games

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• If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

  Brendan Behan

  Rain, Ireland And The Irish, Soup

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