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You cannot teach an old dog new tricks -- William Camden
It is hard to teach an old dog tricks. -- William Camden
My dear old dog, most constant of all friends. -- William Croswell Doane
Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left. -- Robert A. Heinlein
I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead. -- Mary Russell Mitford
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The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people. -- Daniel Pinkwater
A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates. -- Josh Billings
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin
If the old dog barke he gives counsell. [If the old dog barks, he gives counsel.] -- George Herbert
An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing. -- Robert Breault
The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it. -- Carlos Castaneda
I have my own method [of acting]. I come from, I've interrogated people; I come from an undercover background, so it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks. -- Mekhi Phifer
...you will do more harm than good by attempting to supplant old dogmas and customs with new dogmas. It will be the same in the end except that the old is less militant, less dangerous than a new order imposed by enthusiasts. -- Gore Vidal
Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog. -- George Horace Lorimer
Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big. -- Erica Jong
The name is not important anymore - it's the tone that counts. I feel like an old dog I know. He will come to any name you call him, just so long as your demeanor carries with it the promise of affection and food -- Robert Fulghum
The way an old dog finds his way back over miles and miles to his home when somebody trues to shove him off on a farm someplace, that is how I find my way back to the library. It's my place, even more than my place is. -- Chris Lynch
I love it, to have the same crew. I'm not married. I don't have children. My 17-year-old dog died. I'm kind of on my own. So I really like having the same camera guy for four years. I love looking around and seeing the hair and makeup people who have been there from the beginning. -- Julianne Moore
And I will love words for their own sake, like 'hyacinth' and 'Piccadilly' and 'onyx.' And I'll have a good old dog, and think what I like, and be part of a different sort of family, with friends, you know? - who understand that things are only worth what you're willing to give up for them. -- Rick Elice
When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas which belong to the past, I feel how great the need is still of a real interest in the religion which builds up character, teaches brotherly love, and opens up to the seeker such a world of usefulness and the beauty of holiness. -- Olympia Brown
An old dog barks not in vain. -- George Herbert
An old dog lives longer by learning new tricks -- Constance Chuks Friday
An old dog lives longer when it learns new tricks -- Constance Chuks Friday
I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab. -- Sue Monk Kidd
My dog is so old, she now has a lot of cats. -- Dana Gould
A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart. -- Erica Jong
I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home -- Doc Watson
I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home. -- Doc Watson
Death is like an old dog. He always knows when you are at his door. -- Pseudonymous Bosch
I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one. -- Dee Brown
You can teach an old dog new tricks with the right kind of doggie treats. -- Cynthia Lewis
The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup. -- Robert Frost
If entertainment years were dog years, man, Id be like Gandhi. Id be like 250 years old. -- Justin Timberlake
If entertainment years were dog years, man, I'd be like Gandhi. I'd be, like, 250 years old. -- Justin Timberlake
If the old dog hadn't got distracted by the fire plug, he would have caught the rabbit. -- Hayes McClerkin
You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don't want to see the dog doing them. -- Bill Cosby
What a childhood I had - I was ten years old when I found out Alpo was dog food. -- Rodney Dangerfield
When I was 3 years old, my parents got a dog. I was jealous of the dog, so they got rid of me. -- Rodney Dangerfield
He's bad, bad Leroy Brown, baddest dude in the whole damn town, badder than old King Kong, and meaner than a junk yard dog. -- Jim Croce
You can't teach an old dog new dog new tricks. Now,you can give an old dog new toys. And we've got one here! -- Si Robertson
The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself. -- Mark Twain
In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for the dog. -- Doris Roberts
Tell me, if you can, of anything that's finer than an evening in camp with a rare old friend and a dog after one's heart. -- Nash Buckingham
I believe I'm done for," said TomThe cussed sneaking dog, to leave me to die alone! My poor old mother always told me 'twould be so." -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
If you have the right to call me a hot dog why do I not have the right to call you a stale 3-day old hamburger? -- Oscar de la Renta
A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist. -- John Major
I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure out if his dog exists. -- Anne Lamott
The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog. -- Jane Bowles
Who hasn't made mistakes? I once french kissed a dog at a party to try to impress what turned out to be a very tall 12 year old. -- LIZ
When you think of dog movies, that genre, Old Yeller is sort of the benchmark and you hope that you can raise your game up to that. -- Jennifer Aniston
The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it. -- Mark Twain
Let's just say that if you were stealing TVs instead of thoughts, you would have been caught by a half-deaf, mostly blind, fifteen year old dog three robberies ago. -- Elizabeth Chandler
I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing. -- Norman Mailer
Somewhere in [China's] soul lurks the cunning of an old dog, and it is a cunning that is strangely impressive. What a strange old soul! What a great old soul! -- Lin Yutang
There will be grace and forgiveness enough, old dog, even for you. I pray you will spare me a drink from that cup, when it overflows for you.- Miles Vorkosigan -- Lois McMaster Bujold

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