Butchers Quotes

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

  

  Carson Daly
  • Good
  • Important
  • Shrinks

• 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
  • Novel
  • Ultimate

• 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
  • Sound
  • States

• I like to see cats in movement. A galloping cat is a fine sight. See it cross the road in a streak, cursed by the drivers of motor cars and buses, dodging the butcher's bicycle, coming safe to the kerb and bellying under its home gate.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Home
  • Car
  • Cat

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

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Earth
  • Gentle
  • Bleeding

• Thank God that sow's gone to the butcher.

  

  Odilo Globocnik
  • God
  • Gone
  • Thank God

• I went to the butchers to buy a leg of lamb. "Is it Scotch?", I asked. "Why?" the butcher said in reply. "Are you going to talk to it or eat it?". "In that case, have you got any wild duck?". "No", he responded, "but I've got one I could aggravate for you."

  

  Chic Murray
  • Funny
  • Humor
  • Cases

• Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.

  

  Blake Morrison
  • Property
  • Editing
  • Surgeons

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

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Food
  • Advice
  • Chef

• I don’t duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Risk
  • Boys
  • Soldier

• 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
  • Admire
  • Gazing
  • Calves

• 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
  • Terror
  • Fair
  • Butchers