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| A bad dog never sees the wolf. Geo. Herbert. | 1 |
| A barking dog was never a good hunter. Portuguese. | 2 |
| A bashful dog never fattens. German. | 3 |
| A cursed cur should be short tied. | 4 |
| A cur’s tail grows fast. Italian. | 5 |
| A dog has nothing to do and no time to rest. Tamil. | 6 |
| A dog in the manger, that neither eats nor lets others eat. Portuguese. | 7 |
| A dog is a dog whatever his color. Danish. | 8 |
| A dog is never offended at being pelted with bones. | 9 |
| A dog is stout on his own dung-hill. French. | 10 |
| A dog knows his own master. Turkish. | 11 |
| A dog may look at a bishop. French. | 12 |
| A dog never bit me but I had some of his hair. Italian. | 13 |
| A dog of an old dog, a colt of a young horse. (Same say, a calf of a young cow and a colt of an old horse.) | 14 |
| A dog’s life, hunger and ease. | 15 |
| A dog that bites silently. (An insidious traducer.) Latin. | 16 |
| A dog will not cry if you beat him with a bone. | 17 |
| A dog with a bone knows no friend. Dutch. | 18 |
| A good bone never falls to a good dog. | 19 |
| A good dog deserves a good bone. | 20 |
| A good dog hunts by instinct. French. | 21 |
| A good dog never barks at fault. French. | 22 |
| A good hound hunts by kind. French. | 23 |
| A hair of the dog cures the bite. Italian. | 24 |
| A hunting dog will at last die a violent death. Chinese. | 25 |
| A kitchen dog was never good for the chase. Italian. | 26 |
| A lean dog gets nothing but fleas. Spanish. | 27 |
| A man may provoke his own dog to bite him. | 28 |
| A man’s best friend is his dog, better even than his wife. Esquimaux. | 29 |
| A man who wants to drown his dog says he is mad. French. | 30 |
| A mastiff groweth the fiercer for being tied up. | 31 |
| A mischievous cur must be tied short. French. | 32 |
| A schock dog is starved and nobody believes it. Spanish. | 33 |
| A sorry dog is not worth the whistling after. | 34 |
| A staff is quickly found to beat a dog. Shakespeare. | 35 |
| A stranger’s care makes old the dog. Modern Greek. | 36 |
| All bite the bitten dog. Portuguese. | 37 |
| Although dogs together fight they are very soon all right. Chinese. | 38 |
| An ill hound comes halting hame. | 39 |
| An ill-tempered dog has a scarred nose. Danish. | 40 |
| An old dog biteth sore. | 41 |
| An old dog cannot alter its way of barking. | 42 |
| An old dog does not bark for nothing. French, Italian. | 43 |
| An old dog does not grow used to the collar. Italian. | 44 |
| An old dog will learn no tricks. | 45 |
| A waking dog barks from afar at a sleeping lion. | 46 |
| Barking dogs don’t bite. French, German, Dutch. | 47 |
| Better have a dog fawn upon you than bite you. | 48 |
| Better have a dog for your friend than your enemy. Dutch. | 49 |
| Beware of a silent dog and still water. Latin. | 50 |
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| Beware the dog himself; his shadow does not bite. Danish. | 51 |
| Beware of the dog that does not bark. Portuguese. | 52 |
| Brabbling curs never want sore ears. | 53 |
| By gnawing skin a dog learns to eat leather. Danish. | 54 |
| Cats and dogs do not go together without wounds. German. | 55 |
| Cut off the dog’s tail he remains a dog. Italian. | 56 |
| Dogs are hard drove when they eat dogs. | 57 |
| Dogs bark and the wind carries it away. Russian. | 58 |
| Dogs bark as they are bred. | 59 |
| Dogs bark at those they don’t know. Italian. | 60 |
| Dogs begin in jest and end in earnest. | 61 |
| Dogs gnaw bones because they cannot swallow them. | 62 |
| Dogs have more good in them than men think they have. Chinese. | 63 |
| Dogs have teeth in all countries. Spanish. | 64 |
| Dogs love no companion in the kitchen. Latin. | 65 |
| Dogs never go into mourning when a horse dies. | 66 |
| Dogs ought to bark before they bite. | 67 |
| Dogs that hunt foulest scent the most faults. | 68 |
| Dogs that put up many hares kill none. | 69 |
| Dogs wag their tails not so much to you as your bread. | 70 |
| Do not give a dog bread every time he wags his tail. Italian. | 71 |
| Dumb dogs and still water are dangerous. German. | 72 |
| Every dog hath its day, and every man his hour. | 73 |
| Every dog is a lion at home. | 74 |
| Every dog is not a lion at home. Italian. | 75 |
| Flesh never stands so high but a dog will venture his legs for it. | 76 |
| Give a dog an ill name and you may as well hang him. | 77 |
| Have a care of a silent dog and still water. | 78 |
| He fells twa dogs wi’ ae stane. | 79 |
| He is as good a Catholic as Duke Alva’s dog who ate flesh in Lent. | 80 |
| He that is bitten by a dog must apply some of its hair. Dutch. | 81 |
| He that keeps another man’s dog shall have nothing left him but the line. | 82 |
| He that pelts every barking dog, must pick up a great many stones. | 83 |
| He that wants to beat a dog is sure to find a stick. Italian. | 84 |
| He that wants to hang a dog is sure to find a rope. Danish. | 85 |
| He that wants to hang a dog says it bites the sheep. Danish. | 86 |
| He that would hang his dog gives out at first that he is mad. | 87 |
| He who has loaves has dogs. Italian. | 88 |
| He who has not bread to spare should not keep a dog. Spanish. | 89 |
| He who would buy a sausage of a dog must give him bacon in exchange. Danish. | 90 |
| Hold your dog in readiness before you start your hare. Dutch. | 91 |
| Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings. | 92 |
I had rather be a dog and bay the moon,
Than such a Roman. Shakespeare. | 93 |
| I will never keep a dog to bite me. | 94 |
| “I will not bite any dog” says the shepherd’s dog, “for I must save my teeth for the wolf.” German. | 95 |
| I will not keep a dog and bark myself. | 96 |
| If the bitch were not in such haste she would not litter blind puppies. German. | 97 |
| If the dog bark go in, if the bitch bark go out. | 98 |
| If the old dog bark he gives counsel. | 99 |
| If you eat a pudding at home your dog shall have the skin. | 100 |
| If you would have the dog follow you, you must give him bread. Spanish, Dutch. | 101 |
| In the mouth of a bad dog falls many a good bone. | 102 |
| It grieveth one dog that another goeth into the kitchen. Dutch. | 103 |
| It is a good dog that can catch anything. | 104 |
| It is a hard winter when dog eats dog. | 105 |
| It is all one whether you are bit by a dog or a bitch. French. | 106 |
| It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust. | 107 |
| It is bad coursing with unwilling hounds. Dutch. | 108 |
| It is bad for puppies to play with cub bears. Danish. | 109 |
| It is easy robbing when the dog is quieted. Italian. | 110 |
| It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog. Italian, Dutch. | 111 |
| It is ill to waken sleeping dogs. | 112 |
| It is the nature of the greyhound to carry a long tail. Italian. | 113 |
| Let a dog get a dish of honey and he will jump in with both legs. | 114 |
| Let the dog bark so he does not bite me. Spanish. | 115 |
Like dogs that snarl about a bone
And play together when they’ve none. Butler. | 116 |
| Little dogs start the hare but great ones catch. | 117 |
| Mad dogs get their coats torn. Danish. | 118 |
| Make the dog your companion but hold fast your staff. Modern Greek. | 119 |
| Many dogs are the death of the hare. Danish. | 120 |
| Many dogs soon eat up a horse. | 121 |
| Many ways to kill a dog besides hanging him. | 122 |
| Mastiff never liked greyhound. French. | 123 |
Never yet the dog our country fed,
Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread. Bulwer. | 124 |
| No mad dog runs seven years. Bulwer. | 125 |
| Not every dog that barks bites. French. | 126 |
| Old dogs bark not for nothing. | 127 |
| One dog growls to see another go into the kitchen. German. | 128 |
| One must talk soothingly to the dog until he has passed him. French. | 129 |
| On finding a stone we see no dog, on seeing a dog we find no stone. Tamil. | 130 |
| Quarrelling dogs come halting home. | 131 |
| Rear dogs and wolf cubs to rend you. Latin. | 132 |
| Snarling curs never want sore ears. French. | 133 |
| Spaniels that fawn when beaten will never forsake their master. | 134 |
| Stones or bread—one must have something in hand for the dogs. Italian. | 135 |
| That dog barks more out of custom than care of the house. | 136 |
| The best dog leaps the stile first. | 137 |
| The dog barks and the ox feeds. Italian. | 138 |
| The dog barks and the caravan passes. Turkish. | 139 |
| The dog does not get bread every time he wags his tail. German. | 140 |
| The dog gets into the mill under cover of the ass. Italian. | 141 |
| The dog guards the night, the cock rules the morn. Chinese. | 142 |
| The dog has no aversion to a poor family. Chinese. | 143 |
| The dog in his kennel barks at his fleas, the dog that hunts does not feel them. Chinese. | 144 |
| The dog rages at the stone, not at him who throws it. German. | 145 |
| The dog that starts the hare is as good as the one that catches it. German. | 146 |
| The dog that barks much is never good for hunting. Portuguese. | 147 |
| The dog that bites does not bark in vain. Italian. | 148 |
| The dog that has been beaten with a stick is afraid of its shadow. Italian. | 149 |
| The dog that has his bitch in town never barks well. Spanish. | 150 |
| The dog that is forced into the wood will not hunt many deer. Danish. | 151 |
| That dog that is idle never tires of running. Turkish. | 152 |
| The dog that is quarrelsome and not strong, woe to his hide. Italian. | 153 |
| The dog that kills wolves is killed by wolves. Spanish, Portuguese. | 154 |
| The dog that licks ashes is not to be trusted with flour. Italian. | 155 |
| The dog wags his tail not for you but for your bread. Italian, Spanish, Portuguese. | 156 |
| The dog understands his master’s mood. Chinese. | 157 |
| The dog who hunts foulest hits at most faults. | 158 |
| The dog will not get free by biting his chain. Danish. | 159 |
| The dogs bite the hindermost. German. | 160 |
| The dog’s kennel is not a place to keep a sausage. Danish. | 161 |
| The flitch hangs never so high but a dog will look out for a bone. Danish. | 162 |
| The gardener’s dog is neither full nor hungry. Spanish. | 163 |
| The greyhound that starts many hares kills none. Spanish, Portuguese. | 164 |
| The hair of the dog is good for his bite. (Similia similibus curantur.) | 165 |
| The hindmost dog may catch the hare. | 166 |
| The honest watch-dog never barks when his own friends come round. Sam. Randall. | 167 |
| The hound that lies in the kitchen is not hungry. German. | 168 |
| The lean dog is all fleas. Spanish. | 169 |
| The leaner the dog the fatter the flea. German. | 170 |
| The mad dog bites its master. Portuguese. | 171 |
| The watch-dog does not get sweet milk unless there be drowned mice in it. Danish. | 172 |
| The well-bred hound if he does not hunt to-day will to-morrow. Spanish. | 173 |
| There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging. | 174 |
| There are good dogs of all sizes. French. | 175 |
| There are more ways to kill a dog than to choke him to death on bread and butter. | 176 |
| There is danger when a dog has once tasted flesh. Latin. | 177 |
| There is never wanting a dog to bark at you. Portuguese. | 178 |
| There is no dog, be he ever so wicked, but wags his tail. Italian. | 179 |
| There is no showing the wolf to a bad dog. French. | 180 |
| Though the mastiff be gentle, yet bite him not on the lip. Spanish, Portuguese. | 181 |
| Throw no stones at a sleeping dog. Danish. | 182 |
| Throw that bone to another dog. Spanish, Portuguese. | 183 |
| Timid dogs bark worse than they bite. Latin. | 184 |
| Timid dogs bark most. German. | 185 |
| ’Tis a good dog can catch anything. | 186 |
| ’Tis an ill dog deserves not a crust. | 187 |
| ’Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog’s honest bark. | 188 |
| To beat the dog in presence of the lion. French. | 189 |
| Wash a dog, comb a dog, still a dog remains a dog. French, Danish. | 190 |
| We’ll bark ourselves ere we buy dogs so dear. | 191 |
| What, keep a dog and bark myself! German. | 192 |
| What matters the barking of the dog that does not bite. | 193 |
| When a dog is drowning every one offers him water. French. | 194 |
| When a dog runs away, hit him! hit him! | 195 |
| When a man will throw at a dog, he soon finds a stone. German. | 196 |
| When an old dog barks, look out. German, Dutch. | 197 |
| When mastiffs fight, little curs will bark. | 198 |
| When the dog is awake the shepherd may sleep. German. | 199 |
| When the dog is down every one is ready to bite him. Dutch. | 200 |
| When the old dog barks he giveth counsel. Spanish, Portuguese. | 201 |
| When two dogs fight for a bone the third runs away with it. Dutch. | 202 |
| While the dogs growled at each other, the wolves devoured the sheep. French. | 203 |
| While the dogs yelp the hares fly to the wood. Danish. | 204 |
| While you trust to the dog the wolf slips into the sheepfold. | 205 |
| Who has no bread to share should not keep a dog. Spanish. | 206 |
| Whoso is desirous of beating a dog will readily find a stick. Latin. | 207 |
| With the hide of the dog its bite is cured. | 208 |
| Yelping curs may anger mastiffs at last. | 209 |
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