“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
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William Shakespeare699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“What man love me, love my dog.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part II, chapter 9
Recorded in the 11th century by Bernard of Clairvaux in one of his sermons as a common proverb.
Proverbs (1546)
“193. If the old dog barke he gives counsell.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 1, member 1, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
Source: The moon and the bonfire (1950), Chapter XVIII, p. 107
Babe Ruth (1895–1948) American baseball player
As quoted in "'Never Happier in My Life' Ruth Tells Grantland Rice..."
“By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.”
William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice
Source: The Merchant of Venice
“The old dog barks backward without getting up;
I can remember when he was a pup.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
" The Span of Life http://members.tripod.com/~AMDB7/poems/thespanoflife.html" (1936) <br class="br">1930s
“3736. One barking Dog, sets all the Street a barking.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)