
“193. If the old dog barke he gives counsell.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
" The Span of Life http://members.tripod.com/~AMDB7/poems/thespanoflife.html" (1936)
1930s
“193. If the old dog barke he gives counsell.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“[ An old dog barks not in vain. ]”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Inarticulate Touches
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IX - A Painter's Views on Painting
John Calvin, quoted in The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations (2001) by Martin H. Manser, p. 56
Misattributed
Source: The moon and the bonfire (1950), Chapter XVIII, p. 107
“3736. One barking Dog, sets all the Street a barking.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
St. 28.
The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1785)