Dogs

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The dog is a mammal in the order Carnivora. Dogs were first domesticated from wolves at least 17,000 years ago, but perhaps as early as 150,000 years ago based upon recent genetic fossil and DNA evidence. In this time, the dog has developed into hundreds of breeds with a great degree of variation.

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  • A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat's eyes don't even look entirely warm-blooded to me, whereas a dog's eyes look human except less guarded. A dog will look at you as if to say, "What do you want me to do for you? I'll do anything for you." Whether a dog can in fact, do anything for you if you don't have sheep (I never have) is another matter. The dog is willing.
    • Roy Blount, Jr., "Dogs Vis-A-Vis Cats," Now Where Were We?, Random House (1989).
  • Near this spot
    Are deposited the Remains of one
    Who possessed Beauty without Vanity,
    Strength without Insolence,
    Courage without Ferocity,
    And all the virtues of Man, without his Vices.
    This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery
    If inscribed over human ashes,
    Is but a just tribute to the Memory of
    BOATSWAIN, a DOG
  • When a dog wags her tail and barks at the same time, how do you know which end to believe?
  • Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
  • As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
  • Yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
  • There are three faithful friends,
an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
  • 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.
  • It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
  • A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest but poor.
    • Bertrand Russell, Human Knowledge: It's Scope and Limits (1948), pt. 2, Chapter 1.
  • The little dogs and all,
    Tray, Blanche, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me.
  • On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
  • I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
  • You are a mystery in an enigma in a big ball of fur,
    An irresistible magnet to every child and flea and burr.
    Your nose is high-resolution while I live in a near-scentless fog
    You run at high speed, while I just have to slog (but it's a good ol' slog)
    So I just want to thank you for being my dog....
    • Richard Summerbell, (Thank You For Being) My Dog, 2004.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations [edit]

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 198-200.
  • Non stuzzicare il can che dorme.
  • Il fait mal éveiller le chien qui dort.
    • It is bad to awaken a sleeping dog.
    • From a Manuscript of 13th Cen. in Le Roux de Lincy's Collection, Volume I, p. 108; Volume II, p. 392. La Guerre de Genève. Poem. (1534). Franck—Sprichwörter. (1541). An earlier version in Ignaz von Zingerle, Sprichwörter im Mittelalter. For Earlier idea, with cat substituted; see Gabriel Meurier, Trésor des Sentences; Nuñez de Guzman, Refranes, Salamanca. Wake not a sleeping lion. Countryman's New Commonwealth. (1647). Wake not a sleeping wolf. Henry IV, Part II (1597-99), Act I, scene 2, line 174. Henry VIII, Act I, scene 1, line 121.
  • Qui me amat, amet et canem meum.
  • Mother of dead dogs.
    • Quoted by Carlyle in Reminiscences, Volume I, p. 257; Volume II, p. 54. Froude's ed. Also in Life in London. (Froude). Volume I, p. 196.
  • On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh,
    No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I;
    No harp like my own could so cheerily play,
    And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.
  • His faithful dog salutes the smiling guest.
  • It is nought good a sleeping hound to wake.
  • A living dog is better than a dead lion.
    • Ecclesiastes, IX. 4.
  • Old dog Tray's ever faithful;
    Grief can not drive him away;
    He is gentle, he is kind—
    I shall never, never find
    A better friend than old dog Tray!
  • And in that town a dog was found,
    As many dogs there be,
    Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound,
    And curs of low degree.
  • Plus on apprend a connaître l'homme, plus on apprend à estimer le chien.
    • The more one comes to know men, the more one comes to admire the dog.
    • Joussenel, quoted by Paul Franche, La Legende Dorée des Bêtes, p. 191. The saying is attributed generally to Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné. Belloy, Siege de Calais, says: Ce qu'il y a de mieux dans l'homme, c'est le chien. Quoted in this form by Voltaire.
  • Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?
    • II Kings, VIII. 13.
  • 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.
  • Plus je vois des représentants du peuple, plus 'j'aime mes chiens.
    • The more I see the representatives of the people, the more I love my dogs.
    • Alphonse de Lamartine. Quoted in a letter from Comte Alfred d'Orsay to John Forster. (1850). See Notes and Queries, Oct. 3, 1908, p. 273.
  • Qui m'aime il aime mon chien.
    • Who loves me loves my dog.
    • Le Roux de Lincy, French Proverbs. Gives date 13th Cent. In Tresor de Jeh. de Meung. Vers. 1,567.
  • But in some 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.
  • The dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
    • Matthew, XV. 27.
  • Whosoever loveth me loveth my hound.
  • The dog is turned to his own vomit again.
    • II Peter, II. 22.
  • I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
    Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
  • 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. Oct. 9, 1709.
  • Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet.
    • The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites.
    • Quintus Curtius, De Rebus Best, Alexand. Magn, 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!
  • We are two travellers, Roger and I.
    Roger's my dog—come here, you scamp!
    Jump for the gentleman—mind your eye!
    Over the table,—look out for the lamp!
    The rogue is growing a little old;
    Five years we've tramped through wind and weather,
    And slept out-doors when nights were cold,
    And ate and drank and starved together.
  • Gentlemen of the Jury: The one, absolute, unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.
    • Senator George Graham Vest, Eulogy on the Dog. Found in Elbert Hubbard's Pig-Pen Pete, p. 178.

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