Butchers Quotes

• In The Land of the Pig, The Butcher Is King

  Meat Loaf

  Kings, Pigs, Land

  Song: In The Land Of The Pig, The Butcher Is King, 2006

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• You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Patience, Sheep, Years

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.10, A&C Black

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• The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

  William Blake

  Knives, Forgiving, Lambs

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.286, Pearson Education

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• If we each had to butcher our own meat, there would be a great increase in the number of vegetarians.

  Ernest Howard Crosby

  Numbers, Meat, Would Be

  Ernest Howard Crosby (1904). “Tolstoy and His Message”

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• To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite.

  Charles Dickens

  Art, Block, Food

  Charles Dickens (2006). “Martin Chuzzlewit: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink.

  Carson Daly

  Important, Shrinks

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• Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.

  Andy Rooney

  Food, Advice, Cooking

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.265, PublicAffairs

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• Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.

  Patti LaBelle

  Anger, Knives, Long

  Patti LaBelle, Laura Randolph Lancaster (2001). “Patti's Pearls: Lessons in Living Genuinely, Joyfully, Generously”, p.55, Hachette UK

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• A refined sort of butcher, a woman is.

  John Osborne

  Refined

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• A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Motivational, Atheist

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Doctors, Vegetarianism, Vaccines

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• Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Calves, Stupidest

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• Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Government, Shepherds

  'The Piccini Notebooks' (c.1735-c.1750) in T. Besterman (ed.) 'Notebooks' (2nd ed., 1968) vol. 2, p. 517

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• If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

  Larry McMurtry

  Men, Temptation, Common

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Dream, Sleep, Genius

  "The Temptation to Exist". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1956.

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• I walked in on my wife and the milkman, the first thing she says is "don't tell the butcher"!

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Wife

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• As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

  Cyril Connolly

  Life, Fear, Publishing Books

  Enemies of Promise (1938) ch. 10

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• I can get a great look at a t-bone steak by shoving my head up a bull's ass but I'd rather take the butchers word for it.

  Chris Farley

  Looks, Bulls, Bones

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• A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Meat, Politician, Should

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• The butcher seldom sees much interest in allowing the herd to be armed.

  Theodore Beale

  Herds, Interest, Allowing

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• I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Government, People, Looks

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• I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy.

  David Niven

  School, Writing, Years

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

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• I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute.

  Robert Browning

  Song, Blow, Soul

  'Shop' (1876) st. 21

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• Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Fear, Integrity, Literature

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...”, p.93

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• Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  War, Struggle, Thrones

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