“In the law of torts there is the maxim: Every dog has one free bite.”
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“No tort is assignable, in law or equity. It is not within any species of action at common law.”
Joseph Yates (judge) (1722–1770) English barrister and judge
4 Burr. Part. IV., 2386.
Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)
“Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.”
Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love
Source: Time Enough for Love
“The man recovered of the bite,
The dog it was that died.”
Oliver Goldsmith book The Vicar of Wakefield
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 17, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 8.
Giovanni Boccaccio book The Decameron
Essere la natura de' motti cotale, che essi come la pecora morde deono cosi mordere l'uditore, e non come 'l cane: percio che, se come cane mordesse il motto, non sarebbe motto, ma villania.
Sixth Day, Third Story
The Decameron (c. 1350)
“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
As quoted in "A Beautiful Child" in Music for Chameleons (1980) by Truman Capote
“The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone”
Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor
"Lowside of the Road", Mule Variations (1999).
“Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.”
Diogenes of Sinope (-404–-322 BC) ancient Greek philosopher, one of the founders of the Cynic philosophy
Stobaeus, iii. 13. 44
Quoted by Stobaeus
Newton Lee American computer scientist
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