Two cats and one mouse,
Two wives in one house,
Two dogs at one bone,
Can never agree in one. [ Proverb ]
Barking dogs seldom bite. [ Proverb ]
Mad dogs cannot live long. [ Proverb ]
Dogs are fine in the field. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Dogs bark as they are bred. [ Proverb ]
In every country dogs bite. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Many dogs soon eat up a horse. [ Proverb ]
Old dogs bark not for nothing. [ Proverb ]
Quarrelling dogs come halting home. [ 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 ]
Dogs ought to bark before they bite. [ Proverb ]
Two dogs over one bone seldom agree. [ Proverb ]
Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings. [ Proverb ]
And in that town a dog was found,
As many dogs there be,
Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound.
And curs of low degree. [ Oliver Goldsmith ]
All are not thieves that dogs bark at. [ Proverb ]
Dogs that put up many hares kill none. [ Proverb ]
They agree like dogs and cats coupled. [ Proverb ]
It is a hard winter when dogs eat dogs. [ Proverb ]
Dogs are hard drove when they eat dogs. [ Proverb ]
Dogs that bark at a distance never bite. [ Proverb ]
Cry Havock,
and let slip the dogs of war. [ William Shakespeare ]
Dumb dogs and still waters are dangerous. [ German Proverb ]
For fashion's sake, as dogs go to church. [ Proverb ]
Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it. [ William Shakespeare ]
Good jests bite like lambs, not like dogs. [ Proverb ]
Dogs that hunt foulest hit off most faults. [ Proverb ]
We'll bark ourselves if we buy dogs so dear. [ Proverb ]
He that lies with the dogs riseth with fleas. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Little dogs start the hare, the great get her. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Dogs never go into mourning when a horse dies. [ Proverb ]
Quarrelling dogs should be kicked out of doors. [ Proverb ]
Dogs once scalded are afraid even of cold water. [ Proverb ]
Those who sleep with dogs will rise up with fleas. [ Italian Proverb ]
We will bark ourselves ere we'll buy dogs so dear. [ Proverb ]
Keep the dogs near when thou suppest with the wolf. [ Eastern Proverb ]
Little dogs start the hare, but great ones catch it. [ Proverb ]
He that lies down with the dogs must rise with the fleas. [ Proverb ]
Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it. [ Proverb ]
None but cats and dogs are allowed to quarrel in my house. [ Proverb ]
The little dogs hunt out the hare, but the big ones catch it. [ Italian Proverb ]
Dogs wag their tails, not so much in love to you as your bread. [ Proverb ]
Like those dogs, that meeting with nobody else bite one another. [ Proverb ]
He delights in horses, and dogs, and the grass of the sunny plain. [ Horace ]
Society has gone to the dogs: a lot of nobodies talking about nothing. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs. [ Swift ]
Silly dogs are more angry with the stone, than with the hand that flung it. [ Proverb ]
The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is quiet. [ Richter ]
Give not that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine. [ Jesus ]
It's sad that a family can be torn apart by something as simple as a pack of wild dogs. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
He sleeps as dogs do when wives bake, (i.e. is wide awake, though pretending not to see). [ Scotch Proverb ]
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. [ William Penn ]
I think people tend to forget that trees are living creatures. They're sort of like dogs. Huge, quiet, motionless dogs, with bark instead of fur. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
If you seek warmth of affection from a similar motive to that from which cats and dogs and slothful persons hug the fire, you are on the downward road. [ Thoreau ]
I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they chose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Truth is vanishing from the earth, and of fidelity is the day gone by. The dogs still wag the tail and smell the same as ever, but they are no longer faithful. [ Heine ]
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labour and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. [ Burton ]
I wish scientists would come up with a way to make dogs a lot bigger, but with a smaller head. That way, they'd still be good as watchdogs, but they wouldn't eat as much. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
If as much care were taken to perpetuate a race of fine men as is done to prevent the mixture of ignoble blood in horses and dogs, the genealogy of every one would be written on his face and displayed in his manners. [ Voltaire ]
Granted the ship comes into harbour with shrouds and tackle damaged; the pilot is blameworthy; he has not been all-wise and all-powerful; but to know how blameworthy, tell us first whether his voyage has been round the globe or only to Ramsgate and the Isle of Dogs. [ Carlyle ]
One is more honest in youth, and to the age of thirty years, than when one has passed it. It is only after that age that one's illusions are dispelled. Until then, one resembles the dog that defends the dinner of his master against other dogs: after this period, he takes his share of it with the others. [ Chamfort ]