# Spoon

Spoon, a term for an eating utensil that is considered an inherently funny word, has been featured in many quotations.

## Quotes

    Alphabetized by author or specified source
* Ugh, he spooned me
** Random guard, after being hit in the stomach with a ladle in Aladdin
* High diddle diddle, The Cat and the Fiddle, The Cow jump'd over the Moon, The little dog laugh'd to see such Craft, And the Dish ran away with the Spoon.
** Anonymous nursery rhyme, "Hi Diddle Diddle" in Mother Goose's Melody (c. 1765)
** Variant: Hey diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon, The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the fork ran away with the Spoon
*** The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1951) edited by Opie and P. Opie
* Better take her to the White Queen, she'll be safe there. Spoon.
** The March Hare, in Alice in Wonderland
* She came in through the bathroom window, protected by a silver spoon.
** The Beatles
* What did the fork say to the spoon? Who was that ladle I saw you with last night? That was no ladle that was my knife!
** The Joker
* Do you know that's the third spoon I've heard drop this month?
** Algy Longworth, in Bulldog Drummond
* And the cat's in the cradle with the silver spoon, Little Boy Blue, and the Man in the Moon When you coming home Dad? I don't know when — we'll get together then, Son, You know we'll have a good time then.
** Harry Chapin, in "Cats in the Cradle"
* Check it out, Guys. I got a Springfield spoon for my spoon collection... if it weren't for my spoons, I'd probably go insane.
** Adam Clayton of U2 in an episode of The Simpsons
* You there! What the hell is this?
** Father Jack, in Father Ted
* You spoony bard!
** Tellah, in Final Fantasy IV
* A man that's fond precociously of stirring, Must be a spoon.
** Thomas Hood, Morning Meditations (1839), St. 10
* Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I did an original sin. I poked a badger with a spoon.
** Eddie Izzard
* They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.
** Edward Lear, in The Owl and the Pussycat (1871)
* The Dolomphious Duck, who caught Spotted Frogs for her dinner with a Runcible Spoon
** Edward Lear, in Twenty-Six Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures
* We found this spoon sir.
** Sergeant, in Life of Brian
* Mike Wazowski: I think I have a plan here: using mainly spoons, we dig a tunnel under the city and release it into the wild. James P. Sullivan: … Spoons.
** Dialogue from Monsters Inc.
* A sweet lounge lizard, with a silver spoon,
** Motorhead, in Stone Dead Forever
* Sheriff of Nottingham: Locksley! I'm gonna cut your heart out with a spoon. Guy of Gisbourne: Why a spoon cousin? Why not an axe? Sheriff of Nottingham: Because it's dull, you twit! It'll hurt more.
** Dialogue in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
* Just when I thought things couldn't get any better... he spooned me.
** Carrie, Sex and the City
* Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
** William Shakespeare in The Comedy of Errors; original orthography: Marrie he must haue a long spoone that must eate with the diuell
* That tall drink of water with the silver spoon up his ass.
** Red, in The Shawshank Redemption
* Australian: "You call that a knife? This is a knife!" Bart Simpson: "That's not a knife; that's a spoon." Australian: Alright, alright, you win. I see you've played knifey-spoony before.
** The Simpsons This should have an episode citation added.
* Spoon!!!
** Battle cry of The Tick
* I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth
** Substitute, The Who
* There is no spoon.
** "Spoon Boy" in, The Matrix by the Wachowski brothers, indicating that all perceptions of external objects as entirely separate entities are constructs of the mind; this was also quoted in response to the rather grisly death of Private Witherspoon in the horror film Dog Soldiers (2002).
* They'll eat their words with a fork and spoon, and watch 'em! They'll hit the road and all be surfin' soon.
** Brian Wilson and Mike Love, in "Catch a Wave" for The Beach Boys
* The spoon came alive with spoon-ness and the ball with ball-ness and the block with block-ness, and the girl laughed.
** Roger Zelazny in Lord of Light