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LOVE me, love my dog
Cf. ST. BERNARD
Sermon: In Festo Sancti Michaelis
iii.
qui me amat
,
amat et canem meum
, who loves me, also loves my dog; early 14th-cent. Fr.
et ce dit le sage qui mayme il ayme mon chien
, and so says the sage, who loves me loves my dog.
a
1500
in
Archiv
(1893) XC. 81
He that lovyeth me lovyeth my hound.
1546
Dialogue of Proverbs
II. ix. K4
V
Ye haue bene so veraie [veritable] a hog, To my frends. What man, loue me, loue my dog.
1692
Fables of Aesop
cvi. Love Me, Love my Dog …
For there are certain Decencies of Respect due to the Servant for the Master's sake.
1826
Elia's Last Essays
(1833) 262
That you must love me
,
and love my dog
. .. We could never yet form a friendship without the intervention of some third anomaly the understood dog in the proverb.
1975
Snow Tiger
xvi.
I'll have to bring Victor …Love me—love my dog.
associates
;
love
Sermon: In Festo Sancti Michaelis
iii.
qui me amat
,
amat et canem meum
, who loves me, also loves my dog; early 14th-cent. Fr.
et ce dit le sage qui mayme il ayme mon chien
, and so says the sage, who loves me loves my dog.
a1500
in
Archiv
(1893) XC. 81
He that lovyeth me lovyeth my hound.
1546
Dialogue of Proverbs
II. ix. K4
V
Ye haue bene so veraie [veritable] a hog, To my frends. What man, loue me, loue my dog.
1692
Fables of Aesop
cvi. Love Me, Love my Dog …
For there are certain Decencies of Respect due to the Servant for the Master's sake.
1826
Elia's Last Essays
(1833) 262
That you must love me
,
and love my dog
. .. We could never yet form a friendship without the intervention of some third anomaly the understood dog in the proverb.
1975
Snow Tiger
xvi.
I'll have to bring Victor …Love me—love my dog.
associates;
love
LOVE will find a way
a1607
Gentle Craft
(1648) I. XV.
Thus love you see can finde a way, To make both Men and Maids obey.
1661
‘T.B.’ (
title
)
Love will finde out the way.
1765
in
Reliques
III. III. 236
Over the mountains, And over the waves; Love will find out the way.
1962
Killed by Scandal
ix.
But he's so fond of June that I'm sure it's going to be all right. Love will find a way.
1975
Listener
16 Oct. 504
The red-plush curtain fell on a reprise of ‘Love will find a way.’
lovelove
see also (noun)
the COURSE of true love never did run smooth
;
all's FAIR in love and war
;
when the FURZE is in bloom, my love's in tune
;
LUCKY at cards, unlucky in love
;
MONEY is the root of all evil
;
it is best to be OFF with the old love before you are on with the new
;
PITY is akin to love
;
when POVERTY comes in at the door, love flies out of the window
;
PRAISE the child, and you make love to the mother
;
the QUARREL of lovers is the renewal of love
; (verb)
EVERYBODY loves a lord
;
whom the GODS love die young
.
the COURSE of true love never did run smooth
;
all's FAIR in love and war
;
when the FURZE is in bloom, my love's in tune
;
LUCKY at cards, unlucky in love
;
MONEY is the root of all evil
;
it is best to be OFF with the old love before you are on with the new
;
PITY is akin to love
;
when POVERTY comes in at the door, love flies out of the window
;
PRAISE the child, and you make love to the mother
;
the QUARREL of lovers is the renewal of love
; (verb)
EVERYBODY loves a lord
;
whom the GODS love die young
.
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