Butchers Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately extinguished lamp is enough to cause a miscarriage. And to think that from such a frail beginning a tyrant or butcher may be born! You who trust in your physical strength, who embrace the gifts of fortune and consider yourself not their ward but their son, you who have a domineering spirit, you who consider yourself a god as soon as success swells your breast, think how little could have destroyed you!

Hog butcher for the world,Tool maker, stacker of wheat,Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler;Stormy, husky, brawling,City of the big shoulders.

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.

I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals.

Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.

I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy.

Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel.

The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.

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

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.