A dog's life=--hunger and ease.
I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel; that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject.
A lion is a lion though his claws be clipped, and a dog is a dog though he wear a collar of gold.
Your Honor,” Blumberg rang out, “every dog must have his day!” And he got perhaps the first standing ovation ever given in New York City night court.
Here the train was halted. The Scotch half-breed slowly retraced his steps to the camp they had left. The men ceased talking. A revolver-shot rang out. The man came back hurriedly. The whips snapped, the bells tinkled merrily, the sleds churned along the trail; but Buck knew, and every dog knew, what had taken place behind the belt of river trees.
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.
"You don't go out and kick a mad dog. If you have a mad dog with rabies, you
So, from your own point of view, suppose a mind-stuff--[--Greek--]--a noumenal cosmic light such as is shadowed in the fourth gospel. The brain of a dog will convert it into one set of phenomenal pictures, and the brain of a man into another. But in both cases the result is the consequence of the way in which the respective brains perform their "function."
Deil stick pride, for my dog deed o'd.
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
There are times I feel like I'm the kid screaming at the bottom of the well, and my dog runs off to pee on trees instead of getting help.
The dog, to gain his private ends, / Went mad, and bit the man.
Canina facundia=--Dog (
The nature of man may be considered in two ways, one according to its end, and then it is great and incomparable; the other according to popular opinion, as we judge of the nature of a horse or a dog, by popular opinion which discerns in it the power of speed, _et animum arcendi_; and then man is abject and vile. These are the two ways which make us judge of it so differently and which cause such disputes among philosophers.
Je fetter der Floh, je magerer der Hund=--The fatter the flea, the leaner the dog.
There is no question in the mind of anyone acquainted with the facts that, so far as observation and experiment can take us, the structure and the functions of the nervous system are fundamentally the same in an ape, or in a dog, and in a man. And the suggestion that we must stop at the exact point at which direct proof fails us, and refuse to believe that the similarity which extends so far stretches yet further, is no better than a quibble. Robinson Crusoe did not feel bound to conclude, from the single human footprint which he saw in the sand, that the maker of the impression had only one leg.
Your acts are detectives, keener and more unerring than ever the hand of sensational novelist depicted; they will dog you from the day you sinned till the hour your trial comes off.
Let Hercules himself do what he may, / The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
Alcibiades had a very handsome dog, that cost him seven thousand drachmas; and he cut off his tail, "that," said he, "the Athenians may have this story to tell of me, and may concern themselves no further with me."
Mieux vaut voir un chien enrage, qu'un soleil chaud en Janvier=--Better see a mad dog than a hot sun in January.
Latrante uno, latrat statim et alter canis=--When one dog barks, another straightway begins to bark too.
Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.
But what do they get by the change? One dog sated with meat is replaced by a hungrier dog who bites nearer the bone. Out goes the man grown fat with honor, and in comes a hungry and a lean man.
Cao que muito ladra, nunca bom para a caca=--A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.
Truth is a good dog; but beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
To no man does Fortune throw open all the kingdoms of this world, and say: It is thine; choose where thou wilt dwell! To the most she opens hardly the smallest cranny or dog-hutch, and says, not without asperity: There, that is thine while thou canst keep it; nestle thyself there, and bless Heaven!
Better a living dog than a dead lion.
The dog that fetches will carry.
The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
To a dog the choicest thing in the world is a dog: to an ox, an ox; to an ass, an ass; and to a sow, a sow.
A roaming dog is better than a couching lion.
It was like approaching a rabid dog. All the caution in the world wouldn’t protect you if you stuck your hand in its mouth.
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
Oaths are straws, ... and holdfast is the only dog.
A dog winna yowl if you fell him wi' a bane.
I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
One barking dog sets all the street a-barking.
Can che morde non abbaia in vano=--A dog that bites does not bark in vain.
Every dog must have his day.
I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine.
Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.
He cuddled her back into his arms and sighed, closing his eyes as the flames in the gas logs danced like sugar-plums. Gracie watched them across his broad chest, feeling the happiness like a flame inside her heart. Somewhere she heard Christmas carols being sung and a dog barking in the distance. Closer, she heard the strong, regular beat of Jason’s heart under her ear. Christmas wasn’t only in her heart. It was in her arms.
Gie the greedy dog a muckle bane.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Lang syne, in Eden's bonny yaird, / When youthfu' lovers first were pair'd, / And all the soul of love they shared, / The raptured hour, / Sweet on the fragrant flowery swaird, / In shady bower, / Then you, ye auld sneck-drawing= (latch-lifting) =dog, / Ye cam' to Paradise incog, / And play'd on man a cursed brogue, / (Black be your fa') / And gied the infant warld a shog= (shake), / ='Maist ruin'd a'.
Whatever may be the natural propensity of any one, it is very hard to overcome. If a dog were made king, would he not gnaw his shoe-straps?
Beware of a silent man and a dog that does not bark.
And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
A bon chien il ne vient jamais un bon os=--A good bone never falls to a good dog.
Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is better.
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Nubs?” the doctor asked. “It’s okay,” Charlie said. “He’s our dog. He isn’t a person or anything.” “I would hope not.” “Sometimes he eats his own poop,” Charlie explained.
Non destare il can che dorme=--Do not wake a sleeping dog.
If you want a pretence to whip a dog, say that he ate the frying-pan.
Schlagt ihn tot den Hund! Er ist Rezensent=--Strike the dog dead! it's but a critic.
The good nature of the dog is not discouraged, although it often brings upon him only rebuffs; the abusive treatment of man never offends him, because he loves man.
"Pascal is Pascal is Pascal is dog meat."
Bon chien chasse de race=--A good dog hunts from pure instinct.
Bole com o rabo o cao, nao por ti, senao pelo pao=--The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread.
If a dog has a man to back him, he will kill a baboon.
Like the dog in the manger, he will neither eat himself nor let the horse eat.
The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, sits afar and retired off the road, hangs out no sign of refreshment for man and beast, but says, by all possible hints and signs, "I wish to be alone--good-bye--farewell!"
Lazy as Ludlam's dog, that laid his head against the wall to bark.
Nicht alle sind Diebe, die der Hund anbellt=--All are not thieves whom the dog barks at.
Who loves me, loves my dog.
If we ... / Cannot defend our own doors from the dog, / Let us be worried, and our nation lose / The name of hardiness and policy.
Il can battuto dal bastone ha paura dell' ombra=--The dog that has been beaten with a stick is afraid of its shadow.
One dog can drive a flock of sheep.
John Thornton stood over Buck, struggling to control himself, too convulsed with rage to speak. "If you strike that dog again, I'll kill you," he at last managed to say in a choking voice.
But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Cane vecchio non abbaia indarno=--An old dog does not bark for nothing.
What you call dog with no legs? Don't matter what you call him, he ain't gonna come.
Give a dog an ill name and hang him.
Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?
The question at this age is what kind of dog you will shortly resemble. She will be a beagle, Prue a terrier. Pamela will be an Afghan, or something equally unearthly.
Take a hair of the same dog that bit you, and it will heal the wound.
Inter canem et lupum=--Between the dog and the wolf; at the twilight.
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring it was peace.
Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to presume to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog, not under proper control. I could find no label that would suit me, so, in my desire to range myself and be respectable, I invented one; and, as the chief thing I was sure of was that I did not know a great many things that the -ists and the -ites about me professed to be familiar with, I called myself an Agnostic. Surely no denomination could be more modest or more appropriate; and I cannot imagine why I should be every now and then haled out of my refuge and declared sometimes to be a Materialist, sometimes an Atheist, sometimes a Positivist, and sometimes, alas and alack, a cowardly or reactionary Obscurantist.
I am Sir Oracle, / And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.
Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew and dog will have his day.
So they went forth both, and the young man's dog went with them.
And if thou, O poet, wishest to describe the works of nature by thine unaided art, and dost represent various places and the forms of diverse objects, the painter surpasses thee by an infinite degree of power; but if thou wishest to have recourse to the aid of other sciences, apart from poetry, they are not thy own; for instance, astrology, rhetoric, theology, philosophy, geometry, arithmetic and the like. Thou art not then a poet any longer. Thou transformest thyself, and art no longer that of which we are speaking. Now seest thou not that if thou wishest to go to nature, thou reachest her by the means of science, deduced by others from the effects of nature? And the painter, through himself alone, without the aid of aught appertaining to the various sciences, or by any other means, achieves directly the imitation of the things of nature. By painting, lovers are attracted to the images of the beloved to converse with the depicted semblance. By painting whole populations are led with fervent vows to seek the image of the deities, and not to see the books of poets which represent the same deities in speech; by painting animals are deceived. I once saw a picture which deceived a dog by the image of its master, which the dog greeted with great joy; and likewise I have seen dogs bark at and try to bite painted dogs; and a monkey make a number of antics in front of a painted monkey. I have seen swallows fly and alight on painted {68} iron-works which jut out of the windows of buildings.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity. One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.--_Goldsmith._
Ut canis e Nilo=--Like the dog by the Nile,
_Cel._ Not a word? _Ros._ Not one to throw at a dog.
I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
The dog, to gain his private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.
1 Dog Pound = 16 oz. of Alpo
Truth's a dog that must to kennel. He must be whipped out, when the lady brach may stand by the fire and stink.
Mine enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire.
The oak is a more complex thing than the little rudimentary plant contained in the acorn; the caterpillar is more complex than the egg; the butterfly than the caterpillar; and each of these beings, in passing from its rudimentary to its perfect condition, runs through a series of changes, the sum of which is called its development In the higher animals these changes are extremely complicated; but, within the last half century, the labours of such men as Von Baer, Rathke, Reichert, Bischoff, and Remak, have almost completely unravelled them, so that the successive stages of development which are exhibited by a dog, for example, are now as well known to the embryologist as are the steps of the metamorphosis of the silk-worm moth to the schoolboy. It will be useful to consider with attention the nature and the order of the stages of canine development, as an example of the process in the higher animals generally.
Bellet ein alter Hund, so soll man aufschauen=--When an old dog barks, one must look out.
Entre chien et loup=--In the dusk (
Chien sur son fumier est hardi=--A dog is bold on his own dunghill.
You know, Callahan's is a peaceable bar, but if you ask that dog what his
Contaminate our fingers with base bribes?... I'd rather be a dog and bay the moon than such a Roman.
Cave canem=--Beware of the dog.
Thrasyllus the Cynic begged a drachm of Antigonus. "That," said he, "is too little for a king to give." "Why, then," said the other, "give me a talent." "And that," said he, "is too much for a Cynic (or, for a dog) to receive."
A weel-bred dog gaes oot when he sees them preparing to kick him oot.
But Radulf had always proved very discreet in his observations about Ben’s sex life, so he trusted the dog not to comment to anyone on his sartorial dilemmas either.
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
"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs.
Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
"If you don't want your dog to have bad breath, do what I do: Pour a little
He pleaded with his eyes to remain there. The driver was perplexed. His comrades talked of how a dog could break its heart through being denied the work that killed it, and recalled instances they had known, where dogs, too old for the toil, or injured, had died because they were cut out of the traces. Also, they held it a mercy, since Dave was to die anyway, that he should die in the traces, heart-easy and content. So he was harnessed in again, and proudly he pulled as of old, though more than once he cried out involuntarily from the bite of his inward hurt. Several times he fell down and was dragged in the traces, and once the sled ran upon him so that he limped thereafter in one of his hind legs.
The breeding of a man makes him courageous by instinct, true by instinct, loving by instinct, as a dog is; and therefore, felicitously above, or below (whichever you like to call it), all questions of philosophy and divinity.
Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog.
Amittit merito proprium, qui alienum appetit=--He who covets what is another's, deservedly loses what is his own. (Moral of the fable of the dog and the shadow.)
Pshaw! what is this little dog-cage of an earth? what art thou that sittest whining there? Thou art still nothing, nobody; true, but who then is something, somebody?
A hair of the dog that bit him.
Beware of a silent dog and still water.
Non e si tristo cane che non meni la coda=--No dog is so bad but he will wag his tail.
Take your thirst to the stream, as the dog does.
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
A science is more useful in proportion as its fruits are more widely understood, and thus, on the other hand, it is less useful in proportion as it is less widely understood. The fruits of painting can be apprehended by all the populations of the universe because its results are subject to the power of sight, and it does not pass by the ear to the brain, but by the same channel by which {62} sight passes. Therefore it needs no interpreters of diverse tongues, as letters do, and it has instantly satisfied the human race in the same manner as the works of nature have done. And not only the human race, but other animals; as was shown in a picture representing the father of a family to whom little children still in the cradle gave caresses, as did the dog and the cat in the same house; and it was a wonderful thing to see such a sight.
Dem Hunde, wenn er gut gezogen / Wird selbst ein weiser Mann gewogen=--Even a wise man will attach himself to the dog when he is well bred.
The dog is turned to his own vomit again.
For oaths are straws, men's faith are wafer cakes, / And holdfast is the only dog, my duck.
Latrantem curatne alta Diana canem?=--Does the high-stepping Diana care for the dog that bays her?
Ilka dog has his day.
Can ch' abbaia non morde=--A dog that barks does not bite.
He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
'T is sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home; 'T is sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come.
The dog that starts the hare is as good as the one that catches it.
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
Canis in pr?sepi=--The dog in the manger (that would not let the ox eat the hay which he could not eat himself).
Exactly in those respects in which the developing Man differs from the Dog, he resembles the ape, which, like man, has a spheroidal yolk-sac and a discoidal, sometimes partially lobed, placenta. So that it is only quite in the later stages of development that the young human being presents marked differences from the young ape, while the latter departs as much from the dog in its development, as the man does.
The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
Man is too near all kinds of beasts--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, a rapacious vulture=.
Collective bargaining has become a dog chasing its own tail, with inflation eating up wage increases before workers ever get a chance to spend them. Even the union leaders who bring home the fattest contracts these days are concluding that some new stabilizing element is needed to keep the extra purchasing power from draining out of their members’ pay envelopes.[p]The welcome fruit of this discontent may be a growing concentration on wage plans geared to sharing efficiency, as measured by productivity or profits, in place of the sterile “battle for the buck.” [Labor Editor, New York Times ]
But such fault-finders pass over in silence the fact that this is the true manner of knowing the Artificer of such great and marvellous things, and that this is the true way in which to love so great an Inventor! For great love proceeds from the perfect knowledge of the thing loved; and if you do not know it you can love it but little or not at all; and if you love it for the gain which you anticipate obtaining from it and not for its supreme virtue, you are like the dog which wags its tail and shows signs of joy, leaping towards him who can give him a bone. But if you knew the virtue of a man you would love him more--if that virtue was in its place.
He that meddleth with strife belonging not to him is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
Like a hog, or dog in the manger, he doth only keep it because it shall do nobody else good, hurting himself and others.
~Action.~--Action can have no effect upon reasonable minds. It may augment noise, but it never can enforce argument. If you speak to a dog, you use action; you hold up your hand thus, because he is a brute; and in proportion as men are removed from brutes, action will have the less influence upon them.--_Johnson._
So they went their way, and the dog went after them.
To excite a fierce dog to capture a lame rabbit is to attack a contemptible enemy.
"It's a dog-eat-dog world out there, and I'm wearing Milkbone underware."
Hac urget lupus, hac canis=--On one side a wolf besets you, on the other a dog.
I took by the throat the circumcised dog, And smote him, thus.
A man is known to his dog by the smell--to the tailor by the coat--to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of man is known only to God.--_Ruskin._
Love me, love my dog.
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too
A bad dog never sees the wolf.
Een hond aan een been kent geene vrienden=--A dog with a bone knows no friends.
Kuhl bis an's Herz hinan=--Cool to the very heart. _Goethe._ [Greek: Kynos ommat' echon]--Having dog's eyes.
There is some use in having two attorneys in one firm. Their movements resemble those of the man and woman in a Dutch babyhouse. When it is fair weather with the client, out comes the gentleman partner to fawn like a spaniel; when it is foul, forth bolts the operative brother to pin like a bull-dog.
When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.
Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.
A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.
_Mine, Thine._--"This is my dog," say poor children, "that is my place in the sunshine." Here is the beginning and the image of the usurpation of the whole earth.