In Festo Sancti Michaelis, Sermo 1, sect. 3; translation from Richard Chevenix Trench, Archbishop of Dublin On the Lessons in Proverbs ([1853] 1856) p. 148
Bernard quotes this as being a proverb in common use.
Qui me amat, amat et canem meam.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“What man love me, love my dog.”
Part II, chapter 9
Recorded in the 11th century by Bernard of Clairvaux in one of his sermons as a common proverb.
Proverbs (1546)
“I am not a dog lover. A dog lover to me means a dog that is in love with another dog.”
"I Like Dogs", For Men (April 1939); reprinted in People Have More Fun Than Anybody (1994); slightly paraphrased in "And So to Medve", Thurber's Dogs (1955)
From other writings
“I love my dog as much as I love you
But you may fade, my dog will always come through.”
I Love My Dog (1966), his first single, later included on Matthew and Son (1967)
Song lyrics
“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog.”
From The More Boys I Meet from the album, Carnival Ride (2007). [Misattributed: performer not credited as writer.]
As quoted by Anna Freud in the preface to the (1981) edition of Topsy: The Story of a Golden-Haired Chow by Princess Marie Bonaparte.
Attributed from posthumous publications
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Bhakti
“My eye is ever on those who love me.”
Saying stated to his disciples
