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  • Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant. He is tempted to say many things which might better be omitted, or, at least shut up in fewer words.

    John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.121
  • Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.

    Dog   Animal   Car  
    Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.118, Crown Archetype
  • No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

  • I like them all-pointers, setters, retrievers, spaniels-what have you. I've had good ones and bad of several kinds. Most of the bad ones were my fault and most of the good ones would have been good under any circumstances.

    Funny   Dog   Training  
    Gene Hill (1972). “A Hunter's Fireside Book: Tales of Dogs, Ducks, Birds and Guns”, p.137, Academic Learning Company LLC
  • Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from another. But it is in love as in war, we are often more indebted for our success to the weakness of the defence than to the energy of the attack; for mere idleness has ruined more women than passion; vanity more than idleness, and credulity more than either.

    Love   War   Passion  
  • I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash. It was like elephants holding tails. Imagine me undressing a nun, even second hand.

    Funny   Dog   Hands  
    E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial
  • Ive fostered five dogs for the Best Friends Program, which is an amazing no-kill sanctuary for animals, as well as a greyhound named Natasha from the greyhound rescue. All of my fosters have taught me great lessons like patience, nurture, and responsibility. My last foster dog was a Cocker Spaniel, and I couldnt let him go. I adopted him!

  • Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!

    Holes   Spaniels  
    Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.145, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

    Men   Feet   Fawns  
    Samuel Richardson (1754). “The History of Sir Charles Grandison: In a Series of Letters Published from the Originals, by the Editor of Pamela and Clarissa. In Seven Volumes”, p.232
  • Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.

    Men   Friendly   Littles  
  • The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel.

    Stupid   Body   Dear  
    Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.30, Canongate Books
  • I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

    Dog   Witty   Religious  
  • I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cockier spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind.

    "Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.
  • The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness... The mind's sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy. The dear, stupid body is easily satisfied as a spaniel. And, incredibly, the simple spaniel can lure the brawling mind to its dish. It is everlastingly funny that the proud, metaphysically ambitious mind will hush if you give it an egg.

    Stupid   Simple   Eggs  
  • Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.

    Dog   Nature   Silly  
    Gene Hill (2013). “A Hunter's Fireside Book: Tales of Dogs, Ducks, Birds, & Guns”, p.62, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.

  • Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men; As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept All by the name of dogs: the valued file Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, The housekeeper, the hunter, every one According to the gift which bounteous nature Hath in him closed.

    Dog   Men   Names  
    William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (1997). “Macbeth”, p.166, Cambridge University Press
  • A good recipe for a human reducing breakfast is a lot of good things to eat, and three spaniels and two cats to eat with.

    Cat   Two   Three  
  • And so the blasts of calumny, howl they ever so fiercely over the good man's head, contribute to his juster appreciation and to his wider fame. Preserve only a good conscience toward God, and a loving purpose toward your fellow men, and you need not wince nor tremble, though the pack of the spaniel-hearted hounds snarl at your heels.

    William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.31, Adam, Stevenson
  • Dogs are intelligent beings; they are not human beings. The life of a dog - there's no equivalency with the life of a person, and if you are putting a dog in the line of danger to save human life, and they can do the job reasonably well, I mean, seriously, what about dignity and self-respect? I feel like going out to dinner, I think I will have my cocker spaniel host the show tonight.

    Dog   Jobs   Mean  
    "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 7, 2005.
  • Take not into your ear that scum of hell that people call tittle-tattle. Whosoever willingly listens to a slander is equally guilty with the one who tells it, and an old writer says they ought both to be hanged; the one by the tongue and the other by the ear. Do not smile upon such a spaniel, lest like a pleased dog, he puts his dirty paw upon you.

    Dog   Dirty   People  
  • Every time I told my cocker spaniel, Taffy, my very first dog, that we were going for a walk, she would launch into a celebratory dance that ended with her racing around the room, always clockwise, and faster and faster, as if her joy could not be possibly contained. Even as a young boy I knew that hardly any creature could express joy so vividly as a dog.

    Family   Dog   Boys  
    Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (1998). “Dogs Never Lie about Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs”, Broadway Books
  • A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.

    Tree   Walnuts   Spaniels  
    John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.50
  • If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

    Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 16, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)
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