“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”

“The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone”

“Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.”

“Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets,
With a third dog one of the two dogs meets;
With angry teeth he bites him to the bone,
And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.”

“If a dog is biting a black man, the black man should kill the dog, whether the dog is a police dog or a hound dog or any kind of dog. If a dog is fixed on a black man when that black man is doing nothing but trying to take advantage of what the government says is supposed to be his, then that black man should kill that dog or any two-legged dog who sets the dog on him.”

“The dog had no name. For a dog to have a name someone must have him and someone must love him, and a dog must have someone. The dog had no one, and no one had the dog. The dog had only the silent empty countryside of the few houses. The dog had only the crumbs and cleaned bones he could pick up at the few houses. The dog had only himself, so the dog had nothing, and he was afraid.”

“The man recovered of the bite,
The dog it was that died.”

“When you walk a dog on a short leash, she's close enough to bite you.”

“Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him.”

“The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.”