A dog in a kennel barks at his fleas; a dog hunting does not notice them


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AFRICAN PROVERB
One dog barks at something and a hundred bark at his sound
CHINESE PROVERBS
If a dog fights with other dogs, if a dog does anything aggressive, he has to stay in the kennel.
BARBARA MARINO
But not Angus, not in a million years. He's a very mellow dog. Everyone likes him, except the dog in...
BARBARA MARINO
Never trust a man whose dog barks at him.
VIKRANT PARSAI
An old dog barks not in vain.
GEORGE HERBERT
A dog barks, but a lion strikes.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
DAVID STARR JORDAN
He is not an American Kennel Club dog who needs to prove his breed.
DAVID LANE
But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.
CHINESE PROVERB
A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.
PROVERB
But where's the wild dog that has praised his fleas?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.
EDWARD NOYES WESTCOTT
A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog - keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.
PETER NIVIO ZARLENGA
A guilty dog barks first but never forget they run in packs.
FLOWER ROSE
They say a reasonable number of fleas is good for a dog - keeps him from broodin' over being' a dog
EDWARD NOYES WESTCOTT
A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
H. L. MENCKEN
Arguing whether or not God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over ...
ROBERT FULGHUM
If the old dog barks, he gives counsel
GERMAN PROVERB
A dog as he sleeps barks as if on the track of the hare
PROVERB
The dog barks backwards without getting up; I can remember when he was a pup
ROBERT FROST
We might miss the sign or we may be unable to read the expression, but it is almost a contradiction ...
JEFFREY MOUSSAIEFF MASSON
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked a...
JOHN CALVIN
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked a...
PEARL S. BUCK
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL
The Mischievous Dog A dog used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them w...
AESOP
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attack...
PEARL S. BUCK
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attack...
JOHN CALVIN
Wax was a one in a lifetime dog and I don't know if I'll ever see one like him again. His retirement...
RICARDO PACHECO
They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog--keeps him from broodin' over bein' a bog, m...
EDWARD NOYES WESTCOTT
Beware of a man that does not talk and a dog that does not bark
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When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not jud...
ECKHART TOLLE
There is no virtue in the relationship between man and dog that does not originate in the dog.
ROBERT BRAULT
Two fleas are coming out of a bar when one asks the other 'Do we take a dog or do we walk home?'
ANONYMOUS
Truth is a dog that must to kennel. He must be whipped, when Lady, the brach, may stand by the fir...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
My only rule: If you show up with fleas, I kill the owner and the dog.
KEN MATTHEWS
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem
EDWARD ABBEY
A dog that intends to bite does not bear its teeth.
TURKISH PROVERB
The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites. [Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam ...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS)
The barking of a dog does not disturb the man on a camel
EGYPTIAN PROVERB
It's a wolf, not a dog and not a wolf-dog hybrid.
ROB EDWARD
He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A dog with big names does not live to see many day.
AIHEBHOLO-ORIA OKONOBOH
But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit agai...
BIBLE
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
EDWARD ABBEY
Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS...
One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mout...
WILLIAM MAXWELL
The Dog in the Manger A dog lay in a manger, and by his growling and snapping prevented the oxen fr...
AESOP
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER
The exact same thing happened down the road. A little 5-pound dog was in the yard while the lady was...
FLORENCE TOMITA
Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cann...
GARTH STEIN
Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812 A dog b...
JOHN CALVIN
I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
ALEXANDER POPE
I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
ALEXANDER POPE
I'm not about showing you how to crochet a dog bed, ... But I'll show you 10 chic dog beds, where yo...
CHRIS MADDEN
God created Dog, for when men forget love, a dog can show them how
ROYALTON AMBROSE
How does the healthy dog bark? Ruff Ruff.
How does the cold dog bark ? Scarf Scarf.
How...
GROUCHO MARX
The Dog and the Shadow A DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, sa...
AESOP
A dog is a dog.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
ALEXANDER POPE
One day a small monkey was always getting ignored by the other monkeys ,so to get attention he said ...
GARY F EVANS...
Who's the bigger person in the end? The man who allows his dog to do what he does or the dog, who gi...
BRUCE DERN
A dog starved at his master's gate, Predicts the ruin of the state
WILLIAM BLAKE
I have always thought of a dog lover as a dog that was in love with another dog
JAMES THURBER
Take care of your dog because a dead dog is NOT a fun companion!
DARLENE ARDEN
Our dog sat down at a dog show at a time when the dog was supposed to stand up. That person went to ...
MICHAEL MCCULLOCH
After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. ...
ROBERT MCCAMMON
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS
Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
A.A. MILNE
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER
I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.
WILL ROGERS
Like a bullet out of a gun. His big paws had caught the dog before the dog could even flinch.
MICHAEL GRANT
A Blue Dog, you know, is the opposite of a yellow dog. And a yellow dog was somebody who was willing...
MIKE THOMPSON
A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liber...
FRANCES THOMPSON
Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
SAINT BASIL
I'm not a dog
C.E. MURPHY
You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make e...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN
Now, with Annie gone, I'm looking for a new dog. I have a lot of duck hunting planned, and I can...
BUD GRANT
The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be r...
DAN RATHER
Our dog kind of got a little jumpy ... and the dogs went to kind of say hello and he swung his stick...
AMANDA OGDEN
We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w...
PIERCE BROWN
I don't want my neighbors shooting at a dog in the neighborhood. Something has to be done about this...
JAMES WRIGHT
Hugo is my family now. I've always had Great Danes, but Hugo is the most loving dog I've ever had. W...
ANNA LEE
I'm really glad that we have this carrot of going undefeated, to dangle out there in front of them t...
SHERRI COALE
A dog has one aim in life... to bestow his heart.
J.R. ACKERLEY
Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
He's such a great dog. I never thought I was going to be a weird dog person, because there are a lot...
DANNY PINO
Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this--one dog does not change a bone with...
ADAM SMITH
When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.
CHARLES A. DANA
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
MARK TWAIN
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's
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