Top 193 Butcher Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I skip breakfast, pop to the butcher and get sunburned while cooking meat.

I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.

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

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

As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language.

I walked in on my wife and the milkman, the first thing she says is "don't tell the butcher"!

Thank God that sow's gone to the butcher.

What is that in his hand?" "A cleaver. As in-" "Butcher's knife." "You got it." "I hope not." "He does not look happy." "Are you sure it's a he?" "I don't want to know.

If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.

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.

A refined sort of butcher, a woman is.

Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.

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

For a while, I dallied with the idea of the law - I didn't really know what it was, but I thought it sounded sensible. And as a child, I wanted to be a goalkeeper. Or a butcher.

There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.

The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart.

It is above all man's social position that decides whether he will sublimate his sadism as a butcher, surgeon, or policeman.

Life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious.

Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.

One of my illest villains was the Butcher from 'Gangs of New York,' Daniel Day-Lewis.

My wife went into the butchers and said: "You've a sheep's head in your window." The butcher said: "That's a mirror."

In The Land of the Pig, The Butcher Is King

I used to go to Sheen High Street with my dad on a Saturday, and there was a butcher next door to the fishmonger. I hated the smell of the fishmonger, but I found the smell of the butcher's much more appealing. And I liked the big knives. I thought it looked like a decent job.

Sometimes the lambs slaughter the butcher.

Governments are different, and philosophies are different, but when it comes down to it, a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher. A butcher is a butcher is a butcher. We are people. And we are far more common than we ever imagine.

I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

Dr. Warthrop chopped off my finger with a butcher knife.

There doesn't seem like there should be an artful way to butcher a cow, but there is, and this is not it.

You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

My dad, he was a construction worker. He was a butcher. He was a deep sea fisherman.

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

I bought some pork chops and told the butcher to make them lean. He said, 'Which way?'

Some maniac butcher is trying to hack away your balls.

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

A friend of mine said, 'Leukemia hasn't met Susan Butcher yet,' and I agree with her. It's going to have to fight awful hard if it wants to take me.

I'm the third or fourth generation of actor in my family; I'm sure if they were butchers, I'd be a butcher, too.

When I was a kid, I was always drawing things. I'd get butcher paper or grocery bags and draw on them.

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 the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

Since I was 14, I worked more than 13 hours a day as a kitchen runner for a butcher.

My father and mother do not know literacy. I cannot go to school due to financial difficulties. I started to working at a butcher as an apprentice when I was 14.

My grandfather, father, and uncle were chefs, and my other uncle was a butcher.

William Ewart Gladstone is credited with the credo that a prime minister must be a "good butcher." The metaphor is apt insofar as the root of the word "decision" is "to cut."

My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didn't enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef.

You get lots of people, especially where I live, who go in to a butcher and insist on organic beef - even when the butcher has better-tasting stuff from a farm that's been producing wonderful meat for 100 years but hasn't jumped through the hoops to get organic certification.

Butcher boy, damn it, butcher boy.

Again Mariner and Butcher are trying to work the oracle on the near post

Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.

In the past, we had several dog butcher shops in Cheongnyangni, but I closed almost all of them down through various measures.

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

Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?

If we each had to butcher our own meat, there would be a great increase in the number of vegetarians.

A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood.

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'.

They are most welcome. We will butcher them.

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 the Red Cross.

A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.

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