#butcher

Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher. ↗

— Konrad Adenauer

#calves #choose #only #own #stupidest

I met a guy who had an interesting job. He was a meat cutter, or a meat slicer, something like that. I probably butchered his job title.
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— Jarod Kintz

#food #humor #interesting #job #meat

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. ↗

— David Niven

#baker #butcher #care #easy #fees

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

#butchering #cows #craft #meat #art

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#butchers #fear #irrational #life #policemen

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

— Rodney Dangerfield

#bee #birds #butcher #got #him

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. ↗

— Shirley Jones

#after #became #butcher #children #doubled

The butcher died, and he requested to be cremated. But I don’t want to burn him, because I like my meat medium rare.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cannibalism #cook #cooking #cremated #death

In this life, no matter what anyone promises you, what allegiances of love or fealty they swear or what gods they pray to, you will never have more than what you have at this moment. ↗

— Richard Kadrey

#count-non #life

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

— John McCarthy

#book #butcher #critic #favorite #his