The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread
Portuguese Proverb
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TYPEWRITING EXERCISE Without commitment, you are like a dog chasing his tail.
JOHN DI LEMME Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
UNKNOWN Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.
KINKY FRIEDMAN And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that...
LEWIS CARROLL Cat got your tongue, or dog got your tail?
SEAN CROSBY Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
JOSH BILLINGS Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
JOSH BILLINGS A Portuguese is not going to punch you for no reason.
DANIELA RUAH When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a ...
GIOVANNI GUARESCHI The Traveler and His Dog
A Traveler about to set out on a journey saw his Dog stand at the door stre...
AESOP Einstein vigorously wagged his tail. Thoughtfully, Nora said, “Escaped . . .” Travis knew what s...
DEAN KOONTZ I will not call that person happy who knows no rest because of his enemies, who is the butt of fun b...
MUNSHI PREMCHAND How many legs does a dog have, if you call his tail a leg? The answer is four, because calling a tai...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwin...
GIOVANNI GUARESCHI Every dog has his day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weak-end.
JUNE CARTER If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
FRAN LEBOWITZ If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater. . . suggest that he wear a tail.
FRAN LEBOWITZ If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
FRAN LEBOWITZ How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN If his tail is wagging, he likes you. You're either a friend or a relative, ... But if his tail is n...
ELIZABETH DAVIS You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just ...
CRISS JAMI Thanks for working your tail off.” Leglin turned his head to check his hindquarters. “My tail is...
GAYLA DRUMMOND Alice didn't think that proved it at all; however, she went on: 'And how do you know that you're mad...
LEWIS CARROLL Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at th...
MARK TWAIN Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, the...
EMMA GOLDMAN A dog can express more with his tail in minutes than an owner can express with his tongue in hours.
KAREN DAVISON The tail is definitely wagging the dog here,
MICHAEL DONOVAN We don't run the game for betting. To have it regulated to suit punters would see the tail wagging t...
DAVID GALLOP The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.
ROBERT FALCON SCOTT The tax tail should never wag the investment dog.
DAVID BERGMANN But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The
dog is turned to his own vomit agai...
BIBLE How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make i...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I don't treat my dog like that. I buried my dog. You can do everything for other countries but you c...
DANIEL EDWARDS Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog.
GEORGE HERBERT I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.
KINKY FRIEDMAN I think the tail is definitely wagging the dog here.
MICHAEL DONOVAN For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated: “Hunt when h...
JANE LINDSKOLD Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've wa...
NICHOLSON BAKER Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can't answer.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ No one can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog. A dog can show you more hon...
GENE HILL If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a le...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Do not bring your dog. (advice for attending a funeral)
MARK TWAIN Every dog has his day - but the nights are reserved for the cats
MARGARET BENSON Every dog has his day - but the nights are reserved for the cats
ROGER CARAS Every dog has his day - but the nights are reserved for the cats
SIGMUND FREUD Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don'...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Don’t feed your body and keep your spirit starving. Butter bread for your body and living bread fo...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I don't have a command for 'stop wagging your tail'.
ELLE SAVERINI A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS You can trust your dog to guard your house but never trust your dog to guard your sandwich.
ANONYMOUS Eat for lunch, but let something for dinner.
ERBLIN VUKAJ Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians.
SUNDAY ADELAJA If you are among the good fellows chances are that you will be among the blemishes for the wicked ar...
APURVA GAGLANI It's hard when you have things but lose them, it's even harder when you feel that you're being left ...
GARY F EVANS... Starting today, must forget what gone yesterday,appreciate what remains today & look forward what ca...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA call it chicken salad
SARAH DESSEN Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and s...
SARAH DESSEN He has a heart as big as his country, ... Nuno Gomes is like that, he can be having a bad patch for ...
LUIS FIGO The Fox Who Had Lost His Tail
A fox caught in a trap escaped, but in so doing lost his tail. Therea...
AESOP I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he ...
MADELINE MILLER If you're not being pessimistic, you're not being very realistic. But I think one must alway...
DAVID SUZUKI Who hath a Wolfe for his mate, needes a Dog for his man.
GEORGE HERBERT The eldest and biggest of the litter was a dog cub, and when he drew his first breath he was less th...
HENRY WILLIAMSON Once you raise your own child and you will comprehend the hardship of your parents.
– Chinese prov...
CHINESE PROVERB I am not your dog that you whistle for; I’m not a stray animal you call over, and I am not, I neve...
JOY JENNINGS This book is divided into chapters, though not in the traditional chapter division of subject matter...
YOHAI REUBEN After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. ...
ROBERT MCCAMMON You can stick your questions up your ass.”
He slammed his tail in front of her. “I don’t ...
G.A. AIKEN Every man experiences what you call love for every pretty woman and least of all for his wife. That ...
LEO TOLSTOY Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor i...
NIKOLAI BORDYAEV The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of ...
BIBLE I guess my first reaction was 'Ask not what you can do for your cousin but what you can do for his m...
JOSEPH KENNEDY Once a dog is allergic, it will have that allergy for the rest of its life. If it's an environmental...
WILLIAM MILLER Dog parks can be a fantastic way to socialize your dog, but it's important for owners to underst...
CESAR MILLAN Italy, a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the proverb goes
ROBERT BURTON It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the
bread of sorrows: for so he giveth...
BIBLE It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth h...
BIBLE We know, no matter what you say, what you think. I don't know what you believe, but the tail that is...
ED WALSH Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme?
Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,
By win...
GEORGE CRABBE Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look ba...
DON HENLEY Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither
desire thou his dainty meats:
For as...
BIBLE Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: / For as ...
BIBLE Economics should always be paramount over tax considerations. Don't let the tax tail wag the investm...
ROBERT MASON I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb, but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathe...
ERNEST SHAKLETON Thank God you didn't do that to him, ... Your dog, maybe, but not your son. They would have picked o...
ALAN TRAMMELL Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while
And like a peacock sweep along his tail;
We'll pull his...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
DENIS WAITLEY The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get...
SARAH DESSEN This is a 911? You know you only text that when someone is dead or dying. You scared the crap out of...
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PORTUGUESE PROVERB Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure
PORTUGUESE PROVERB Hell is paved with good intentions, roofed in with lost opportunities.
PORTUGUESE PROVERB What is bought is cheaper than a gift
PORTUGUESE PROVERB Good management is better than good income.
PORTUGUESE PROVERB Change yourself, and fortune will change
PORTUGUESE PROVERB Never cut what can be untied
PORTUGUESE PROVERB Better a red face than a black heart
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PROVERB Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
PROVERB The time to make friends is before you need them.
PROVERB Short judgments make long friends.
PROVERB It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
PROVERB A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
PROVERB Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
PROVERB Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
PROVERB From small beginnings come great things.
PROVERB Some will, some don't, so what!
PROVERB Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
PROVERB Try and trust will move mountains.
PROVERB He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
PROVERB Make peace with man and war with your sins.
PROVERB A sin confessed is half forgiven.
PROVERB All sins cast long shadows.
PROVERB Simplicity is the seal of truth.
PROVERB A silent mouth is melodious.
PROVERB Silence implies consent.
PROVERB The Laws of Clothing Shopping:
If you like it, they don't have it in your size.
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PROVERB Shame is worse than death.
PROVERB God likes help when helping people.
PROVERB One is rated by others as he rates himself.
PROVERB Attack is the best form of defense.
PROVERB Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
PROVERB A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
PROVERB When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
PROVERB It is better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB Better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB Kings have many ears and eyes.
PROVERB It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
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PROVERB A soft answer turneth away wrath.
PROVERB Cunning surpasses strength.
PROVERB What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
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PROVERB The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
PROVERB Two great talkers will not travel far together.
PROVERB A closed mouth catches no flies.
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PROVERB A good speaker makes a good liar.
PROVERB Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
PROVERB When at a loss how to go on, cough.
PROVERB Speak when you are spoken to.
PROVERB Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
PROVERB The less people think the more they talk.
PROVERB Speak little and to the purpose.
PROVERB Speak and the man shall be shown.
PROVERB The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.
PROVERB A little body often harbors a great soul.
PROVERB Life without a friend is death without a witness.
PROVERB The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.
PROVERB You can't steal second base with your foot on first.
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PROVERB Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.
PROVERB What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.
PROVERB Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
PROVERB Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
PROVERB He has hard work who has nothing to do.
PROVERB How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
PROVERB Rest breeds rust.
PROVERB The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.
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PROVERB Respect starts with yourself.
PROVERB He who is near the Church is often far from God.
PROVERB Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
PROVERB An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.
PROVERB Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm.
PROVERB Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
PROVERB Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.
PROVERB Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
PROVERB By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
PROVERB The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
PROVERB Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
PROVERB A wicked book cannot repent.
PROVERB The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
PROVERB Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
PROVERB Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
PROVERB He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
PROVERB There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
PROVERB Live to live and you will learn to live.
PROVERB Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
PROVERB No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
PROVERB What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home.
PROVERB Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
PROVERB He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
PROVERB We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
PROVERB One of these days, is none of these days.
PROVERB Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
PROVERB Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.
PROVERB Manana is often the busiest day of the week.
PROVERB Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.
PROVERB Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.
PROVERB None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
PROVERB Today must not borrow from tomorrow.
PROVERB Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
PROVERB Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
PROVERB When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
PROVERB One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
PROVERB No one can pray well, but those who live well.
PROVERB Short prayers reach heaven.
PROVERB People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
PROVERB Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
PROVERB Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
PROVERB Practice is the best master.
PROVERB The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
PROVERB Force without forecast is to little avail.
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PROVERB He who pays the piper calls the tune.
PROVERB Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
PROVERB A poor man is all schemes.
PROVERB When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
PROVERB Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.
PROVERB Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
PROVERB When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.
PROVERB Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.
PROVERB There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.
PROVERB Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
PROVERB Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
PROVERB Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.
PROVERB Why kill time when one can employ it.
PROVERB Forever is a long bargain.
PROVERB The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
PROVERB Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
PROVERB Time and I against any two.
PROVERB The longest day soon comes to an end.
PROVERB Soon enough is well enough.
PROVERB Now is the watchword of the wise.
PROVERB Lost time is never found again.
PROVERB Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.
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PROVERB Never offer to teach a fish to swim.
PROVERB In teaching others we teach ourselves.
PROVERB He who does not research has nothing to teach.
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PROVERB He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.
PROVERB No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.
PROVERB Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.
PROVERB Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.
PROVERB Who has a trade may go anywhere.
PROVERB No one was ever lost on a straight road.
PROVERB Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
PROVERB He that falls by himself never cries.
PROVERB More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
PROVERB Those that will not hear must be made to feel.
PROVERB That which proves too much, proves nothing!
PROVERB When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth.
PROVERB If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential.
PROVERB The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
PROVERB Never say die.
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PROVERB If you wish for peace be ready for war.
PROVERB When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.
PROVERB Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
PROVERB Peace with a club in hand is war.
PROVERB If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
PROVERB Rome was not built in a day.
PROVERB Patience, money and time bring all things to past.
PROVERB Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.
PROVERB Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.
PROVERB Patience is the key to paradise.
PROVERB There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
PROVERB Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
PROVERB Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
PROVERB That which is escaped now is pain to come.
PROVERB A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
PROVERB Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
PROVERB It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
PROVERB Riches have wings.
PROVERB A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
PROVERB As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
PROVERB You can't take it with you when you go.
PROVERB After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
PROVERB To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
PROVERB The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
PROVERB Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.
PROVERB Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
PROVERB No price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.
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