"Sometimes the lambs slaughter the butcher." — Amarillo Slim

More Butcher Quotes

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• If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business,… — Lord Byron
• Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. — Emile M. Cioran
• Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher. — Alex Comfort
• To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening,… — Charles Dickens
• They are most welcome. We will butcher them. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
• Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language. — Jay Leno
• Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky,… — Carl Sandburg
• When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure… — Clint Eastwood
• Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals… — Kurt Vonnegut
• There was a willow hanging over the mill-pool and I learned to climb it. It belonged to a butcher on… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• Never throw a butcher knife in anger. — Homer
• As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination. — George Bernard Shaw

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