dogs

PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.

J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape.

EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, called a Cause, is said to generate the other - which is no more sensible than it would be . . . to declare the rabbit the cause of a dog [who pursues it].

DOG, n. A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.

CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance - against whom or what does not clearly appear; everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance.

If a dog jumps up into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?

But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.