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Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations. - Sigmund Freud And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound, And curs of low degree. - Oliver Goldsmith, Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity. - Margaret Halsey The more one comes to know men, the more one comes to admire the dog. [Lat., Plus on apprend a connaltre l'homme, plus on apprend a estimer le chien.] - Joussenel, quoted in Paul Franche's "La Legende Doree des Betes", p. 191 Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day. - Charles Kingsley There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers and sisters I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear. - Rudyard Kipling, The Power of the Dog The more I see the representatives of the people, the more I love my dogs. [Fr., Plus je vois des representants du peuple, plus j'aime mes chiens.] - Alphonse de Lamartine, quoted in a letter from Comte Alfred d'Orsay to John Forster Who loves me loves my dog. [Fr., Qui m'aime il aime mon chien.] [Lat., Qui me amat, amat et canem meam.] - Antoine Jean Victor Le Roux de Lincy, French Proverbs, 13th century Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot. - Konrad Zacharias Lorenz But in come canine Paradise Your wraith, I know, rebukes the moon, And quarters every plain and hill, Seeking its master. . . . As for me This prayer at least the gods fulfill That when I pass the flood and see Old Charon by Stygian coast Take toll of all the shades who land, Your little, faithful barking ghost May leap to lick my phantom hand. - St. John Welles Lucas, To a Dog The biggest dog has been a pup. - Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller) Whosoever loveth me loveth my hound. - Sir Thomas More, First Sermon on the Lord's Prayer The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you? - Alexander Pope, Epigrams--On the Collar of a Dog To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 109) Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. - Alexander Pope, Letters to and from H. Cromwell, Esq.--Letter X A dog with a bone is always in danger. - Proverb, (African) Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer. - Leo Rosten I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. - Rita Rudner The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites. [Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet.] - Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus), De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (VII, 14) I have a dog of Blenheim birth, With fine long ears and full of mirth; And sometimes, running o'er the plain, He tumbles on his nose: But quickly jumping up again, Like lightning on he goes! - John Ruskin, My Dog Dash Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men; As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept All by the name of dogs: the valued file Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, The housekeeper, the hunter, every one According to the gift which bounteous nature Hath in him closed. - William Shakespeare The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart--see, they bark at me. - William Shakespeare, King Lear (King Lear at III, vi) Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? . . . And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority--a dog's obeyed in office. - William Shakespeare, King Lear (King Lear at IV, vi) Every dog must have his day. - Jonathan Swift Displaying page 2 of 3 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3
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