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His name was Shadow, short for ShadowThat Comes in Sight, an old Indian name, Apache or Cheyenne. I very much approved of this.You don't want dogs called Spot or Pooch.You don't want dogs called Nigel or Keith. The names of dogs should salute the mystical drama of the animal life. Shadowthat's a good name.
In the nightmare of the dark All the dogs of Europe bark, And the living nations wait, Each sequestered in its hate.
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine. And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me,O mine enemy?
Give notthat which isholy untothe dogs, neithercast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
And she said,Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters'table.
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles. And ate the cheeses out of the vats.
Lo sguardo dei cani che non capiscono e non sanno che possono aver ragione a non capire. The gaze of dogs who don't understand and who don't know that they may be right not to understand. 185
I hate'Humanity'and all such abstracts: but I love people. Lovers of 'Humanity'generally hate people and children, and keep parrots or puppy dogs.
Mad dogs and Englishmen Go out in the midday sun.
'Orses and dorgs is some men's fancy. They're wittles and drink to melodging, wife, and children reading, writing and 'rithmeticsnuff, tobacker, and sleep.
Anybody who hates children and dogs can't be all bad.
Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs. 380
Don't let's go to the dogs tonight For mother will be there.
'Twould ring the bells of heaven The widest peal for years, If Parson lost his senses And people came to theirs, And he and they together Knelt down with angry prayers For tamed and shabby tigers And dancing dogs and bears, And wretched, blind, pit ponies, And little hunted hares.
Players, Sir! I look upon them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.
I dislike almost all dogs, but Alsatians, I do truly believe, should be prohibited by law in any civilised country The more I see of dogs, the more I admire men.
If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot.
His English reminds me of tattered washing on the lineof stale bean-soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. 566
Dogs with broken legs are shot; men with broken souls write through the night.
The dogs had eaten the upholstery of a Packard convertible that afternoon, and were consequently somewhat subdued.
Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor; This year a reservoir, to keep and spare, The next a fountain, spouting through his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him 'till they burst.
The only thing I can sayabout W C Fields, whom I have admired since the day he advanced upon Baby LeRoy with an ice pick, is this: any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
And Sir Richard said again: 'We be all good English men. Let us bang these dogs of Seville, the children of the devil, For I never turned my back upon Don or devil yet.'
Nothing like blood, sir, in hosses, dawgs, and men.
They that sleep with dogs shall rise with fleas.
It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.
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