When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away: Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day.

-Kingsley, Charles
  Song. The Water Babies, ch.2.

   We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart; But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: 'It's clever, but is it Art?'

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'The Conundrum of the Workshops'.

There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store, Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'The Power of the Dog'.

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Manö There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:ö That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  Rudyard Kipling's Verse,'The Gods of the Copybook Headings'.

It's been a hard day's night, And I've been working like a dog.

-Paul
  'A Hard Day's Night'.

I had learned that if one cannot call a country to heel like a dog, neither can one dismiss the past with a smile in an easygushof feeling, saying: Icould not help it,Iamalsoa victim.

-Lessing, Doris May ne¤  e Tayler
This was the Old Chief's Country,'The Old Chief Mshlanga'.

Let's goömuch as that dog goes, intently haphazard.

-Levertov, Denise
  Overland to the Islands,'Overland to the Islands'.

Who is able to paint the existence of a dog as Picasso paints the existence of a cubic shape?

-Marc, Franz
Quoted in Briefe,  Aufzeichnungen und  Aphorismen (2 vols,1920), translated by Chipp in his Theories of Modern  Art (1968).

He that is a traveller must have the back of an ass to bear all, atonguelikethetail ofa dog toflatterall, themouthof a hog to eat all what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing; and if this be not the highest step of thraldom, there is no liberty or freedom.

-Nashe,Thomas
  The Unfortunate Traveller, or the Life of  Jack Wilton.

I am his Highness'dog at Kew; Pray, tell me sir, whose dog are you?

-Pope, Alexander
'Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog which I gave to His Royal Highness'.

Thou art a beaten dog beneath the hail, A swollen magpie in a fitful sun, Half black half white Nor knowst'ou wing from tail Pull down thy vanity.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
  The Pisan Cantos, no.81.

   You ain't nothin' but a hound dog cryin'all the time. You ain't nothin' but a hound dog cryin'all the time. Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine.

-Presley, Elvis Aaron
  'Hound Dog' (written byJerry Leiber and Mike Stoller).

Were I (who to my loss already am One of those strange prodigious creatures, Man) A spirit, free to choose for my own share What case of flesh and blood I'd choose to wear, I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear.

-Rochester,JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of
  'A SatyrAgainst Mankind', l.1^5 (published1679).

Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.

-Simon, Caroline K(lein)   d.1993
Comment the year after her candidacy for Postmaster General was barred by federal officials who claimed the job was unsuited to a woman. Recalled on her death, in the NewYork Times, 30 Jul1993.

I've already had medical attentionöa dog licked me when I was on the ground.

-1st Viscount
  OnlyWhen I Laugh.

Beware of anything that promises freedom or enlightenmentötraps for eager and clever foolsöa dog has a keener noseöevery creature in a cave can justify himself. Three-fourths of philosophyand literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.

-Snyder, Gary Sherman
  Earth House Hold,'Japan FirstTimeAround, 24: X'.

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

-Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich
  In the Listener,15 Feb.

He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'Locksley Hall', l.49^50.

Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'Locksley Hall', l.79.

Portrait of the Artist as aYoung Dog.

-Thomas, Dylan Marlais
  Title of book.