Butchers Quotes - Page 6

Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.

Alex Comfort

Freedom, Liberty, Want

Alex Comfort, John Bayliss (1969). “New Road ...: New Directions in European Art and Letters”

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This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better, and as for anatomy, my butcher can dissect a joint full as well; no, young man, all that is stuff; you must go to the bedside, it is there alone you can learn disease!
Comment to Hans Sloane on Robert Boyle's letter of introduction describing Sloane as a 'ripe scholar, a good botanist, a skilful anatomist'.

Thomas Sydenham

Science, Men, Garden

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He could still see the dragon just fine. It was about sixty feet long, snout to tail, its body made of interlocking bronze plates. Its claws were the size of butcher knives, and its mouth was lined with hundreds of dagger-sharp metal teeth. Steam came out of its nostrils. It snarled like a chain saw cutting through a tree.

Rick Riordan

Cutting, Knives, Feet

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I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real people with the metaphysical absurdity known as ‘flesh and blood’. In fact, ‘flesh and blood’ describes them very well: they resemble cuts of meat laid out on the butcher’s marble slab, dead creatures bleeding as though still alive.

Fernando Pessoa

Real, Book, Character

Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.47, Profile Books

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...We have seven people who knew the skewers were there: the wedding planner, the reception hall manager, the dressmaker, the florist, the veil-maker, the cake-maker, and the caterer. I haven't ruled out the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker, either.

Linda Howard

Cake, People, Veils

Linda Howard (2010). “Veil of Night: A Novel”, p.139, Ballantine Books

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What man with a human heart, who has ever cared for domestic animals, could look into their eyes, so full of confidence and affection, and willingly give them over to the butcher's knife? How could he devour their flesh as a sweet morsel?

Ellen G. White

Sweet, Eye, Heart

Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Miscellaneous Periodical Articles - Book III of III”, p.305, Lulu Press, Inc

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What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician -- these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.

Polly Adler

Father, Real, Cities

Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.9, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism, Forever

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My laboratory,' I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. 'Why is it that saying it like that always makes me want to follow it with 'mwoo-hah-hah-hahhhhh'? ' 'You were overexposed to Hammer Films as a child?' - Harry Dresden & Bob the Skull, Changes, Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher

Children, Skulls, Drawing

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I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.

Karl Pilkington

Night, Winning, Awards

"Karl Pilkington On Ricky Gervais’s Golden Globe Show: I Don’t Watch Or Understand Awards". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2012.

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... all professional ideologies are high-minded. Hunters, for instance, would not dream of calling themselves the butchers of the woods.

Robert Musil

Dream, Woods, Hunters

Robert Musil (1961). “The Man Without Qualities”

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They are most welcome. We will butcher them.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Funny, Military, Baghdad

"Report: U.S. Bags 'Baghdad Bob'", www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2003.

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Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language.

Jay Leno

President, Hussein, Baghdad

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The best of Donald Westlake's pseudonymous thrillers about Parker, the toughest burglar who ever lived. . . .Out of print for years and years, Butcher's Moon is the ultimate Parker novel, best read as an installment in the series as a whole but comprehensible and wholly satisfying on its own.

Terry Teachout

Moon, Years, Thrillers

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Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be. So the Galapagos Islands could be hell in one moment and heaven in the next, and Julius Caesar could be a statesman in one moment and a butcher in the next, and Ecuadorian paper money could be traded for food, shelter, and clothing in one moment and line the bottom of a birdcage in the next, and the universe could be created by God Almighty in one moment and by a big explosion in the next--and on and on.

Kurt Vonnegut

Islands, People, Heaven

Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Galapagos: A Novel”, Dial Press

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There was a willow hanging over the mill-pool and I learned to climb it. It belonged to a butcher on the Stratford Road, I think. One day they cut it down. They didn't do anything with it: the log just lay there. I never forgot that.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Cutting, Thinking, One Day

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My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got loads of beef. My grandmother, Meg, was a fine Scottish cook who did slow cooking.

Kenneth Cranham

Grandmother, Grandparent, Cooking

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It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?.

Mark Twain

Knives, Civilization, Hands

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3701, Delphi Classics

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Soon it will be daybreak. Soon the day will break. I can't stop it from breaking in the same way it always does, and then from lying there broken; always the same day, which comes around again like clockwork. It begins with the day before the day before, and then the day before, and then it's the day itself. A Saturday. The breaking day. The day the butcher comes.

Margaret Atwood

Lying, Broken, Doe

Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.295, Anchor

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All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors (who for the most part are but the great butchers of mankind) farther mislead growing youth, who by this means come to think slaughter the laudable business of mankind, and the most heroic of virtues.

John Locke

War, Mean, Fighting

John Locke (1752). “Some Thoughts concerning Education ... The eleventh edition”, p.174

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In India the new government - the members of the radical Hindu Right who want India to be a 'Hindu Nation' - they're bigots. Butchers. Massacres are their unofficial election campaigns - orchestrated to polarise communities and bring in the vote.

Arundhati Roy

Government, Community, Want

Source: www.truth-out.org

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i want to hear what's happened to you," she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. "it's just that there is nowhere else to start," she said gently. "niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.

Louise Erdrich

Rivers, Different, Want

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... They paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and unique. May be it's my lack of fashion sense talking, but I thought they should have held out for one of those gorillas who has learned to paint. The results would have been of similar quality, and they could have paid in fresh produce. - Harry Dresden, Small Favor, Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher

Fashion, Unique, Talking

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Right,' Thomas said. 'Where are we headed?' 'To where they treat me like royalty,' I said. 'We're going to Burger King?' I rubbed the heel of my hand against my forehead and spelled fratricide in a subvocal mutter, but I had to spell out temporary insanity and justifiable homicide, too, before I calmed down enough to speak politely. 'Just take a left and drive. Please.' 'Well,' Thomas said, grinning, 'since you said 'please' - Thomas Raith & Harry Dresden, Small Favor, Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher

Kings, Temporary Insanity, Hands

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Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.

Gene Spafford

Wish, Cows, Sacred

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