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  • As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Proverbs 26:11.

  • The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Peter 2:22.

  • Like Rome, Nkongsamba was built on seven hills, but there all similarity ended. Set in undulating tropical rain forest, from the air it resembled nothing so much as a giant pool of crapulous vomit on somebody's expansive unmown lawn.

    -William Andrew Murray Boyd
    A Good Man in  Africa, ch.1.

  • As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man There are only four things certain since Social Progress began: That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire.

    - (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
      Rudyard Kipling's Verse,'The Gods of the Copybook Headings'.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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