
"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.
Square One
Lyrics, Highway Companion (2006)
"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.
Hurry Home, Candy (1953)
“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).
“The worst dog gets the best bone.”
Mesiras Nefesh, c. 1910. Alle Verk, vii. 155.
“Give a dog a bone, leave a dog alone. Let a dog roam and he'll find his way home.”
"Ruff Ryders' Anthem" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpHtEa2II_s (1998), It's Dark and Hell Is Hot
1990s
“The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone”
"Lowside of the Road", Mule Variations (1999).
Source: (1776), Book I, Chapter II, p. 14.
Source: The Wealth of Nations
“5324. Two Dogs fight for a Bone, and a third runs away with it.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“A bruise to the ego hurts more than a break to the bone.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 60