Butchers Quotes

107 quotes by 100 authors

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… — Lord Byron
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… — Miguel de Cervantes
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, was to forget breakfast instantly.… — Charles Dickens
They are most welcome. We will butcher them. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too. — Blake Morrison
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, brawling, City of big shoulders. — Carl Sandburg
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… — Chris Farley
When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for… — Clint Eastwood
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… — Terry Teachout
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… — Kurt Vonnegut
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.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator. — Homer
Never throw a butcher knife in anger. — Homer
Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They… — Mahatma Gandhi
Of 472 civilian occupations defined by the Department of Commerce, only six are majority immigrant (legal and illegal). These six occupations account for 1 percent… — Mark Krikorian
As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination. — George Bernard Shaw
When I took my clothes off in Blue Velvet, I wanted to convey the brutality of sex abuse. I wanted to look like a quartered… — Isabella Rossellini

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