“Old Rover in his moss-greened house
Mumbles a bone, and barks at a mouse.”

“Fenugreek, Tuesday's spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni book The Mistress of Spices

“it wont be long now It won't be long
till earth is barren as the moon
and sapless as a mumbled bone”

Don Marquis (1878–1937) American writer

“Dark green is my favorite color. It's the color of nature and the color of money and the color of moss!”

Leonardo DiCaprio (1974) American actor and film producer

“Merry the green, the green hill shall be merry.
Hungry, the owlet shall seek out the mouse
And Jack his Joan, but they shall never marryAnd snow shall fly, the big flakes fat and furry.
Lonely, the traveler shall seek out the house,
And Jack his Joan, but they shall never marry.Weary the soldiers go, and come back weary,
Up a green hill and down the withered hill,
And Jack from Joan, but they shall never marry.”

Donald Justice (1925–2004) Poet, teacher

“[ An old dog barks not in vain. ]”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest

“A mouse lived in a windmill in Old Amsterdam”

Myles Rudge (1926–2007) English songwriter and scriptwriter

“His hair just grizzled,
As in a green old age.”

John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century

“193. If the old dog barke he gives counsell.”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest

“Let any man show the world that he feels
Afraid of its bark and ’t will fly at his heels:
Let him fearlessly face it, ’t will leave him alone:
But ’t will fawn at his feet if he flings it a bone.”

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) English statesman and poet