Quotations About / On: DOG

  • 41.
    All men are intrinsical rascals, and I am only sorry that not being a dog I can't bite them.
    (George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet. letter, Oct. 20, 1821, to the publisher John Murray. Byron's Letters and Journals, vol. 8, ed. Leslie Marchand (1973-1981).)
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  • 42.
    A leaky faucet, a barking dog—those are things you tolerate.
    (Candace Gingrich (b. c. 1967), U.S. computer technician and gay/lesbian rights activist. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 24 (March 13, 1995). The half-sister of conservative Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (b. 1943), she was responding to remarks he had made that she considered offensive to homosexuals and to his recommendation that homosexuality be "tolerated.")
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  • 43.
    Lately, I've become accustomed to the way
    The ground opens up and envelopes me
    Each time I go out to walk the dog.
    (Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934), U.S. poet. Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note (l. 3-5). . . Poetry of Black America, The; Anthology of the 20th Century. Arnold Adoff, ed. (1973) Harper & Row.)
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  • 44.
    An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.
    (Samuel Butler (1835-1902), British author. The Way of All Flesh, ch. 72 (1903).)
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  • 45.
    A dog starv'd at his Master's Gate
    Predicts the ruin of the State.
    (William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. Auguries of Innocence (l. 9-10). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.)
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  • 46.
    The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Hamlet, in Hamlet, act 5, sc. 1, l. 292. One cannot stop a creature from acting according to its nature. Hamlet may refer to Laertes (as the cat), and himself (as the dog whose turn will come). The saying about the dog was proverbial.)
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  • 47.
    This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage,
    Snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.
    (Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. Faces, sct. 2.)
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  • 48.
    The paper boy curses the dog through the latched screen door.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection, New York (1991).)
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  • 49.
    Habit is the ballast that chains a dog to his vomit.
    (Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. First published in 1931. Proust, p. 8, Grove Press (1957).)
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  • 50.
    She is a procession no one can follow after
    But be like a little dog following a brass band.
    (George Barker (b. 1913), British poet, novelist, playwright, scriptwriter. Sonnet to My Mother (l. 7-8).)
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