A Quote by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Polish - Poet
March 6, 1909 - May 7, 1966

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Kids today and for the last 20 years have held the fork and knife in unbelievable ways. They hold the fork with a fist and the knife like a saw and they shovel it in. It doesn't matter to them which way they hold their knife and fork. They eat every which way. I'm amazed they get food into their mouths at all.

Letitia Baldrige

I'm still not certain on the nature of the spork, whether it is a fork and a spoon, or a fork and a knife mixed together, or maybe a fork and a fork on top. Life is full of mysteries yeah man

Thom Yorke

I have a fork and a spoon, but never a knife… as if I’m lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. That’s why I’m not allowed a knife.

Margaret Atwood

If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife.

Malcolm X

If this is the end of the world, give me a fork and a knife.

Dana Goodyear

Never trust machinery more complicated than a knife and fork.

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Sam Snead

What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.

Irene Nemirovsky

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are major CEOs who do not know how to hold a knife and fork properly, but I don't worry about that as much as the lack of kindness.

Letitia Baldrige

A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece of wood? He has a right to use his knife to cut his meat, a fork to hold it; may a patentee take from him the right to combine their use on the same subject? Such a law, instead of enlarging our conveniences, as was intended, would most fearfully abridge them, and crowd us by monopolies out of the use of the things we have.