“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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English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“What man love me, love my dog.”
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.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Section 1, member 1, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
Source: The moon and the bonfire (1950), Chapter XVIII, p. 107
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.”
Source: The Merchant of Venice
“The old dog barks backward without getting up;
I can remember when he was a pup.”
" The Span of Life http://members.tripod.com/~AMDB7/poems/thespanoflife.html" (1936)
1930s
“3736. One barking Dog, sets all the Street a barking.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)