“You made your own jean shorts… with a butter knife?”

“Jean, Jean, you're young and alive
Come out of your half-dreamed dream
And run, if you will, to the top of the hill
Open your arms, bonnie Jean.”

Rod McKuen (1933–2015) American poet, songwriter, composer, and singer

“life is too short for fake butter or fake people.”

Karen Salmansohn American writer

“5930. You lay on your Butter, as with a Trowel.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

“If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

“I tell ya, I grew up in a tough neighborhood. The other night a guy pulled a knife on me. I could see it wasn't a real professional job. There was butter on it.”

Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American actor and comedian

“There never was a good knife made of bad steel.”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

“If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound. They won't even admit the knife is there.”

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist

“317. Be not a baker if your head be of butter.”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest

“If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.”

Terry Pratchett book Moving Pictures