butcher quotes

The bearer of this letter is an old friend of mine not quite the right side of the blanket as they say in fact he is the son of a first rate butcher but his mother was a decent family called Hyssopps of the Glen so you see he is not so bad and is desireus of being the correct article.

- Daisy Mary Margaret Ashford
  TheYoung Visiters, or Mr Salteena's Plan, ch.5.

I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute.

- Robert Browning
  'Shop', stanza 21.

The notion of libertyamuses the people of England, and helps to keep off the taedium vitae.When a butcher tells you that his heart bleeds for his country he has, in fact, no uneasy feeling.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Remark,16 May. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

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.

- Carl Sandburg
  Chicago Poems,'Chicago'.

[To] have an unmannerly fat clerk ask the consent of every butcher in the parish to join John Absolute and Lydia Languish, spinster.Oh that I should live to hear myself called spinster!

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  Lydia Languish, who had hoped for a romantic elopement. The Rivals, act 5, sc.1.

It isnot fromthebenevolence ofthebutcher, thebrewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

- Adam Smith
  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.1, ch.2.