Dog fighting
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Dog fighting is a type of blood sport that turns game and fighting dogs against each other in a physical fight, often to the death, for the purposes of gambling and entertainment for the spectators.
Quotes
[edit]- What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight—it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, quoted in The Washington Post (1 February 1958), p. 1
- A Mastiff of true English blood
Lov'd fighting better than his food.- John Gay, "The Mastiffs", Fables (1738)
- Like as a Mastiffe having at a bay
A salvage Bull, whose cruell hornes doe threat
Desperate daunger.- Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1580)
Proverbs
[edit]- Tulying dogs come halting home.
- James Kelly, Scottish Proverbs (1721)
- Spoken when quarrelers come off with the worse. English: Brabling dogs have sore ears.
- A dogfight at home is more interesting than a civil war in Asia.
- American (California & New York) Proverb, reported in A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1996)
- Fighting dogs never win.
- American (Kentucky & Tennessee) Proverb, reported in A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1996)
- All's fair in a dogfight.
- American (New York) Proverb, reported in A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1996)
- Variant: All's fair in a dog's fight.
- One dog may kill another, but that doesn't stop dogfights.
- American (Texas) Proverb, reported in A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1996)