Two cats and one mouse,
Two wives in one house,
Two dogs at one bone,
Can never agree in one. [ Proverb ]
A good dog deserves a good bone. [ Proverb ]
There is a bone for you to pick. [ Proverb ]
Fair words never break a bone,
Foul words have broke many a one. [ Proverb ]
Two dogs over one bone seldom agree. [ Proverb ]
The world goes whispering to its own,
This anguish pierces to the bone;
And tender friends go sighing round,
What love can ever cure this wound?
My days go on, my days go on. [ E. B. Browning ]
A good bone never falls to a good dog. [ French Proverb ]
He that will be served must be patient. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Flesh of flesh,
Bone of my bone, thou art, and from thy state
Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe. [ Milton ]
A dog will not cry if you beat him with a bone. [ Proverb ]
In the mouth of a bad dog falls often a good bone. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Into the mouth of a bad dog falls many a good bone. [ Proverb ]
The dog gnaws the bone because he cannot swallow it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
What of them is left, to tell
Where they lie, and how they fell?
Not a stone on their turf, nor a bone in their graves:
But they live in the Verse that immortally saves. [ Byron ]
Cast a bone in the devil's teeth and it will save you. [ Proverb ]
The tongue breaks the bone, though it hath none itself. [ Proverb ]
He that bestows but a bone on you would not have you die. [ Proverb ]
Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it. [ Proverb ]
That which is bred in the bone will never come out in the flesh. [ Proverb ]
Were it not for the bone in the leg all the world would turn carpenters. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this, - one dog does not change a bone with another. [ Adam Smith ]
Beauty, wit, high birth, vigor of bone, desert in service, love, friendship, charity, are subjects all to envious and calumniating time. [ William Shakespeare ]