
"Confession" in Complete Works of Jack London, Delphi Classics, 2013
Variant: Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
The quote "Give a dog a bone, leave a dog alone. Let a dog roam and he'll find his way home." is famous quote attributed to DMX (rapper) (1970), American rapper and actor from New York.
"Ruff Ryders' Anthem" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpHtEa2II_s (1998), It's Dark and Hell Is Hot
1990s
"Confession" in Complete Works of Jack London, Delphi Classics, 2013
Variant: Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
“Those that look for bones are dogs.”
Poster against relatives of people forcibly disappeared during the military dictatorship. Cartaz contra desaparecidos do Araguaia irrita deputados http://politica.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,cartaz-contra-desaparecidos-do-araguaia-irrita-deputados,378349. Estadão (28 May 2009).
“What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm. ”
Source: (1776), Book I, Chapter II, p. 14.
Source: The Wealth of Nations
“The worst dog gets the best bone.”
Mesiras Nefesh, c. 1910. Alle Verk, vii. 155.
Hurry Home, Candy (1953)
“Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.”
As quoted in Sex from Plato to Paglia : A Philosophical Encyclopedia (2006) by Alan Soble, Volume 2, p. 378, ISBN 9780313334252
“Always had more dogs than bones.”
Square One
Lyrics, Highway Companion (2006)
“If they let me choose between you and the dog, I'll choose the dog.”