“Charlotte, having seen his body
Borne before her on a shutter,
Like a well-conducted person,
Went on cutting bread and butter.”

“[He] spread his bread with all sorts of butter, yet none would stick thereon.”

“Man can not live by bread alone… he must have peanut butter.”

“Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.”

“I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.”

“Yes yes (quoth she) for all those wyse woordis vttred,
I know on which syde my bread is buttred.
But there will no butter cleaue on my breade.
And on my bread any butter to be spreade.
Euery promise that thou therin dost vtter,
Is as sure as it were sealed with butter.”

“The game minus slow bowling is like bread without butter or, even worse, French cuisine without the sauces.”

“.. the sort of white crepe dough with which the person is thickly buttered [in the 'Haute Pâtes' series, Dubuffet made in 1946] was, by its proximity to the tar, dyed the color of burnt bread like a used Meerschaum pipe.”

“You are the butter to my bread, and the breath to my life”

“Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.”