You smile and bite. [ Proverb ]
Many smile who bite. [ Cotgrave ]
Dead folks cannot bite. [ Proverb ]
Good goose, don't bite. [ Proverb ]
Barking dogs seldom bite. [ Proverb ]
In every country dogs bite. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
His bark is worse than his bite. [ Proverb ]
Little serpents may bite mortally. [ Proverb ]
Great fleas have little fleas
Upon their backs to bite 'em;
And little fleas have lesser fleas,
And so ad infinitum. [ Lowell ]
Cause not your own dog to bite you. [ Proverb ]
I will never keep a dog to bite me. [ Proverb ]
Dogs ought to bark before they bite. [ Proverb ]
If it were a bear it would bite you. [ Proverb ]
Let dogs delight to bark and bite.
For God hath made them so;
Let bears and lions growl and fight.
For 'tis their nature to. [ Isaac Watts ]
Brag's a good dog, but dares not bite. [ Proverb ]
Dogs that bark at a distance never bite. [ Proverb ]
Then, rising with Aurora's light,
The muse invoked, sit down to write;
Blot out, correct, insert, refine.
Enlarge, diminish, interline;
Be mindful, when invention fails.
To scratch your head and bite your nails. [ Swift ]
Good jests bite like lambs, not like dogs. [ Proverb ]
A man may provoke his own dog to bite him. [ Proverb ]
You have taken a bite out of your own arm. [ Proverb ]
Never show your teeth unless you can bite. [ Proverb ]
Truth has rough flavors if we bite through. [ Mrs. Marian Lewes Cross (pen name George Eliot) ]
Better have a dog fawn upon you than bite you. [ Proverb ]
To fawn with the tail, and bite with the mouth. [ Proverb ]
Fools bite one another, but wise men agree together. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Though the mastiff be gentle, yet bite him not by the lip. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
But now so wise and wary was the knight
By trial of his former harms and cares,
That he descry'd and shunned still his slight;
The fish, that once was caught, new bait will hardly bite. [ Spenser ]
Like those dogs, that meeting with nobody else bite one another. [ Proverb ]
It is rare to find a fish,, that will not sometime or other bite. [ Proverb ]
Men that make envy and crooked malice nourishment, dare bite the best. [ William Shakespeare ]
Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite the man that mocks at it, and sets it light. [ William Shakespeare ]
I have known a very good fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite. [ Izaak Walton ]
Learn a man's limitations. If you make him bite off more than he can chew, don't get mad at him if he has to spit it out. [ George Horace Lorimer ]
Society, that distills so many poisons, resembles that serpent of India whose abode is the leaf of the plant that cures its bite: society usually offers a remedy for the sufferings it causes. [ A. de Musset ]
Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Let your pen fail, begin to trifle with blotting-paper, look at the ceiling, bite your nails, and otherwise dally with your purpose, and you waste your time, scatter your thoughts, and repress the nervous energy necessary for your task. [ G. H. Lewes ]
In the matter of diet - which is another main thing - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince-pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven-thirty in the evening. Eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And I wish to urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - that if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks, and get out at the first way station where there's a cemetery. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]