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“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."”

Said Humor Funny Cases Legs Ducks Lambs Butchers Scotch

Author:Chic Murray

“I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New York Times ... a hack Californian editor came to New York to butcher some films and he needed an assistant. For some reason I read it that day and it changed my life. I went to work for him and he was horrible, butchering these masterpieces by Antonioni, Visconti, but I learned enough to know what he was doing wrong.”

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens.”

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations0: With a life of the author : Also a view of the doctrine of Smith, compared with that of the french economists ...

“A refined sort of butcher, a woman is.”

Refined Butchers

Author:John Osborne

“So long as men are compassionate to such a degree that they cannot hear a fly struggling in a spider's web without emotion it can never be reasonably maintained that it is their natural impulse to wound and kill the dumb animals, or to butcher one another in what is called the field of honour.”

Men Long Natural Animal Emotion Struggle Fields Degrees Wounds Dumb Impulse Honour Compassionate Animal Rights Spiders Butchers

Author:John Newton

“Whatever littleness and vanity is to be observed in the minds of women, it is, like the cruelty of butchers, a temper that is wrought into them by that life which they are taught and accustomed to lead.”

Mind Christian Religious Taught Cruelty Vanity Temper Accustomed Butchers

Book:A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love

Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love

“It may indeed be doubted whether butchers' meet is anywhere a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of milk, cheese, and butter, or oil where butter is not to be had, afford the most plentiful, the most wholesome, the most nourishing, and the most invigorating diet. Decency nowhere requires that any man should eat butchers' meat.”

Men Should May Helping Oil Meat Diets Vegetables Milk Grain Cheese Decency Vegetarianism Doubted Butchers Invigorating Plentiful

Book:An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2

Source: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2

“All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors (who for the most part are but the great butchers of mankind) farther mislead growing youth, who by this means come to think slaughter the laudable business of mankind, and the most heroic of virtues.”

Thinking Mean War Fighting Virtue Growing Mankind Youth Killing Entertainment Honour Heroic Mislead Slaughter Conqueror Butchers Renown

Book:Some Thoughts concerning Education ... The eleventh edition

Source: Some Thoughts concerning Education ... The eleventh edition

“In The Land of the Pig, The Butcher Is King”

Land Kings Pigs Butchers

Author:Meat Loaf

“It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?.”

Hands Levels Civilization Salvation Lifts Civilized Knives Baskets Banner Butchers Prince Of Peace

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got loads of beef. My grandmother, Meg, was a fine Scottish cook who did slow cooking.”

Poverty Fine Cooking Hills Cooks Grandmother Load Grandfather Grandparent My Grandmother My Grandfather Scottish Beef Butchers Meg Ferguson

Author:Kenneth Cranham

“The extremes to which Western elites will go to avoid blaming radical Islam for terrorism cripples our efforts to protect innocent Muslims. Terrified of offending butchers, we insist that we're the bigots, not them. We make excuses for monsters.”

Effort Protect Blame Islam Western Excuse Extremes Terrorism Monsters Innocent Radical Elites Terrified Butchers Bigots Cripples Offending Radical Islam

Author:Ralph Peters

“I don't believe in "average people" doing anything [about the climate]. People outght to support mitigation and adaptation within their own line of work, no matter how un-average that is. I mean: if you're a butcher, baker, ballerina, banker, or a plumber, envision yourself as the post-fossil-fuel version of yourself, and get right after it”

People Ifs Believe Mean Matter Lines Support Climate Don't Believe Average Versions Posts Fuel Fossils Adaptation Bankers Fossil Fuel Butchers Bakers Ballerina Plumber

Author:Bruce Bruce

“It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers to suppress religion and undermine the traditional family. Theophobes would find such a characterization truly horrifying, but it's true. This explains why theophobia - while popular in faculty lounges, journalism seminars and Hollywood bacchanals - has not and probably never will attract a public following of any appreciable influence or size.”

Pain Careers Influence Special Hollywood Notes Size Following Accidents Traditional Journalism Faculty Pot Butchers Characterization Seminars Traditional Family

Author:Tony Snow

“The butcher seldom sees much interest in allowing the herd to be armed.”

Interest Allowing Herds Butchers

Author:Theodore Beale

“With Congress and the S.E.C. so heavily peopled by lawyers, and with lawyers having been so heavily involved in drafting financial disclosure documents now seen as bogus, there was a new "lawyer" joke every week. One such was: "The butcher says 'the reputation of lawyers has fallen dramatically', and the check-out clerk replies: "How do you fall dramatically off a pancake?”

Fall Week Involved Jokes Financial Congress Lawyer Checks Reputation Fallen Documents Butchers Clerks Disclosure Pancakes Drafting

Author:Charlie Munger

“Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.”

Giving Reason Ought Judgment Life And Death Physicians Butchers Jurors

Author:Jonathan Swift

“My grandmother was amazing. She completely believed in me and was very encouraging. She would go to the supermarket or the butcher or wherever and tell people, 'My grandson is going to be the next Calvin Klein.'”

People Next Grandmother My Grandmother Supermarkets Butchers Grandson

Author:Marc Jacobs

“My school music teacher, Al Bennest, introduced me to jazz by playing Louis Armstrong's record of "West End Blues" for me. I found more jazz on the radio, and began looking for records. My paper route money, and later, money I earned working after school in a print shop and a butcher shop went toward buying jazz records. I taught myself the alto saxophone and the drums in order to play in my high school dance band.”

“I think the Priem Minister has to be a butcher and know the joints.”

Thinking Knows Ministers Joints Butchers

Author:Rab Butler

“I love Korean food, and it's kind of like home to me. The area that I grew up in outside Chicago, Glenview, is heavily Korean. A lot of my friends growing up were Korean and when I would eat dinner at their houses, their parents wouldn't tell me the names of the dishes because I would butcher the language.”

Kind Home House Names Language Parent Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up My Friends Areas Dinner Chicago Dishes Korean Butchers Friends Growing Up Korean Food

Author:Patrick Stump

“One would expect an actress to stand onscreen mostly as a caricature. If she would say, "I'm selling shoes," you would believe her. She says it and it creates this fiction, non-fiction perception of the film. People believe it because she says it. If she said, "I'm a butcher," people would believe it too, I think.”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Said Film Fiction Perception Shoes Actresses Selling Non Fiction Caricatures Butchers Selling Shoes

Author:Isabelle Huppert

“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.”

Children Made School My Friends Raises My Children Oscars Salary Maids Popular Song Butchers

Author:Shirley Jones

“Hillary Clinton, as an awful judge of the character of a dictator and butcher in the Middle East. Is she guilty or not guilty?”

Character Middle Judging Clinton East Guilty Awful Middle East Dictator Butchers Not Guilty

Author:Chris Christie

“I had this radical idea that the police should obey the law. My view was that any human system without adequate checks and balances will tend towards corruption and abuse. That's why you have meat inspectors. Not because you hate butchers, but because of an understanding of human nature.”

Should Humans Ideas Law Hate Understanding Views Human Nature Balance Abuse Police Corruption Checks Radical Meat Adequate Butchers Inspectors Radical Ideas

Author:Van Jones

“First of all, when you have a doctor who cut the leg to prevent the patient from the gangrene if you have to, we don't call butcher ; you call him a doctor, and thank you for saving the lives.”

Ifs Firsts Cutting Doctors Patient Legs Saving Doctor Who Butchers

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“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.”

Lying Vegetarian Cows Sheep Hung Vegetarianism Butchers Pastures Vegetarian Food Carrion Green Pastures

Author:John Harvey Kellogg

“There is no moral equivalent between that butcher and thug and KGB colonel Vladimir Putin and the United States of America, the country that Ronald Reagan used to call a shining city on a hill.”

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Author:John McCain

“It's amazing being a member of perhaps the last analog generation - being born in the late '40s, growing up in the '50s and '60s, when it was still a very analog world. And in New Orleans those days, the country was just next door, as it were. You didn't have to travel miles and miles to get out in the woods. There's tons of fishing, obviously, in New Orleans, and tons of hunting. That was part of the cycle of life, to get fresh meat from the butcher or go duck hunting and get it yourself. It wasn't malicious or insensitive. It was just there, and you used it.”

“In India the new government - the members of the radical Hindu Right who want India to be a 'Hindu Nation' - they're bigots. Butchers. Massacres are their unofficial election campaigns - orchestrated to polarise communities and bring in the vote.”

Want Government Nations Community Members Vote India Election Campaigns Radical Butchers Bigots Massacres New Government

Author:Arundhati Roy

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

Thinking States Sound United United States Usa Butchers

Book:Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter

Source: Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter

“I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.”

People Knows Want Giving Film Night Winning Watches Tvs Program Meat Awards Butchers

Author:Karl Pilkington

“Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.”

War Might Struggle Crime Secure Innocence Thrones Criminal Mind Butchers Crime And Criminals Criminals Crime

Author:Maximilien Robespierre

“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.”

“Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.”

Needs Government Funny Shepherds Butchers

Author:Voltaire

“i want to hear what's happened to you," she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. "it's just that there is nowhere else to start," she said gently. "niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.”

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Author:Louise Erdrich

“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.”

“Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old song. They fit my lifestyle with newly arriving butcher/censors every month. Only six weeks ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some 75 separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel which, after all, deals with censorship and book-burning in the future, write to tell me of this exquisite irony.”

Source: Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

“The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs.... Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.”

Giving Order Voice Office Anxiety Fats Chairs Knives Sweat Rulers Butchers Arses Piglet

Book:Poems, 1913-1956

Source: Poems, 1913-1956

“But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.”

People Men Children Lost Streets Victory Paper Lays Fishes Newspapers Papers Men Women Butchers Lost Hope Fresh Fish

Book:The Joy Luck Club: A Novel

Source: The Joy Luck Club: A Novel

“Like all stories of creators who bring life from the dead, his story began with a struggling butcher, who chased a gray cat, caught it, took off its studded collar, and slit its throat.”

Stories Struggle Cat Caught Creator Gray Throat Collars Butchers Slits

Author:Salvador Plascencia

“My father was in the kitchen putting a new washer in the kitchen faucet. He looked relieved to see Morelli standing in the hallway. He'd probably prefer I bring home someone useful, like a butcher or a car mechanic, but I guess cops are a step up from undertakers.”

Home Father Steps Car Standing Kitchen Cop Mechanic Step Up Relieved Butchers Hallways Undertaker

Book:Three Plums In One: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly

Source: Three Plums In One: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly

“The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.”

Forgiving Knives Strife Lambs Butchers Misused

Book:William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

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

Earth Pieces Gentle Pardon Bleeding Meek Butchers Julius Pardon Me Dogs Of War

Author:William Shakespeare

“When a cow lives with the butcher, sooner or later he gets eaten unless he helps the other cows off to their slaughter. (Nick)”

Helping Cows Sooner Or Later Slaughter Butchers

Book:Dark Side Of The Moon

Source: Dark Side Of The Moon

“Julian was the son of Diokles of Sparta, also known as Diokles the Butcher. That man made the Marquis de Sade look like Ronald McDonald. (Ben)”

Men Looks Made Known Son Mcdonalds Butchers Sparta Ronald Mcdonald

Book:Fantasy Lover

Source: Fantasy Lover

“Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say 'Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,' instead of saying 'there is no butcher'.”

Able Next Healing Sitting Butchers

Author:Tori Amos

“The mishandling of food and equipment with panache was always admired; to some extent, this remains true to this day. Butchers still slap down prime cuts with just a little more force and noise than necessary. Line cooks can't help putting a little English on outgoing plates, spinning them into the pass-through with reverse motion so they curl back just short of the edge. Oven doors in most kitchens have to be constantly tightened because of repeatedly being kicked closed by clog-shod feet. And all of us dearly love to play with knives.”

Source: Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw

“...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue. This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your day. I was lying on the examining table, and Butters, complete with his surgical gown and his tray of autopsy instruments, stood over me. 'I'm not dead!' I sputtered. 'I'm not dead!' - Harry Dresden, Death Masks, Jim Butcher”

Enough Eye Lying Next Tables Instruments Ruins Mask Next Time Examining Gowns Butchers Dresden Harry Dresden Trays Autopsy Morgues

Book:Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files

Source: Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files

“Right,' Thomas said. 'Where are we headed?' 'To where they treat me like royalty,' I said. 'We're going to Burger King?' I rubbed the heel of my hand against my forehead and spelled fratricide in a subvocal mutter, but I had to spell out temporary insanity and justifiable homicide, too, before I calmed down enough to speak politely. 'Just take a left and drive. Please.' 'Well,' Thomas said, grinning, 'since you said 'please' - Thomas Raith & Harry Dresden, Small Favor, Jim Butcher”