Dog fighting

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

• 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

• 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)