Why doesn't he use a spoon?

-DeValera, EŁ  amon
  On being told that David Lloyd George had said talking to him was like trying to pick up mercury with a fork.

   I see traces of the turtle soup, and venison, and gold spoon in this.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
  Mr Bounderby. Hard Times, bk.1, ch.11.

It is like balancing an egg on a spoon while shooting the rapids.

-Hill, (Norman) Graham
On motor racing. Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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.

-Lear, Edward
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and  Alphabets,'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat'.

And she, being old, fed from a mashed plate as an old mare might droop across a fence to the dull pastures of her ignorance. Her husband held her upright while he prayed to God who is all-forgiving to send down some angel somewhere who might land perhaps in his foreign wings among the gradual crops. She munched, half dead, blindly searching the spoon.

-A'Ghobhainn
Thistles and Roses,'OldWoman', stanzas1^2.