Butchers Quotes

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

  Carson Daly

  Important, Shrinks

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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Calves, Stupidest

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

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Meat, Politician, Should

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• Whoe'er has gone thro' London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat, And how he keeps Gloating upon a sheep's Or bullock's personals, as if his own; How he admires his halves And quarters--and his calves, As if in truth upon his own legs grown.

  Thomas Hood

  Sheep, Gone, Half

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.190, Delphi Classics

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• It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

  Adam Smith

  Business, Invisible Hand, Government

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 2 (1776)

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• O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!

  William Shakespeare

  Dogs Of War, Pieces, Earth

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 254

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• A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Lying, Sheep, Vegetarianism

  "Romance of the Cow" by Dahyabhai H. Jani, The Bombay Humanitarian League, p. 81, 1938.

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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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• Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there.

  Neil Jordan

  Growing Up, Kids, Boys

  Interview with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

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• After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

  Shirley Jones

  Children, School, Salary

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

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• I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.

  Loretta Lynn

  Thinking, Usa, Sound

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.1, Vintage

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• If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

  Lord Byron

  Fall, Tyrants, Gentleman

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.26, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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