Praying without fervency is like hunting with a dead dog.

No one ever kicks a dead dog

— Proverb

I was raised by a hard-working single mother, so my first role model was a woman. My only caretaker was a woman, and I…

— Louis C. K

God, please watch over the soul of this dead dog and carry him up to heaven... because he sure as hell can't walk... he's…

— American Dad

“But our logic is skewed in this respect. A dog that bites is a dead dog. First day at the shelter and I already…

— Mindy McGinnis

“West Wind #2 You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But listen to me. Without fanfare,…

— Mary Oliver

No man is the boss of his own house, but he can make up for it, he thinks, by making a dog play dead.

— W. C. Fields

You're over there in the corner either thinking about the dead dog or whatever, you're bringing up your personal life and you need the…

— Marcia Gay Harden

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

— Anonymous

“All the doctors and nurses assigned to Blake had that sad look in their eyes, like they were treating a damn dead dog or…

— Debra Anastasia

“The real problem here is that we’re all dying. All of us. Every day the cells weaken and the fibres stretch and the heart…

— Caitlin Moran

“The leash snaps loose and trails after the little white dog like a kite streamer; then the knot closes, sealing shut. In seconds, an…

— Veronica Rossi

“As the sun went down, I saw a solitary boatman disporting on the smooth lake. The falling dews seemed to strain and purify the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The fly that should be dead and the dog that should be dead in the house that should be dead, and the bride, who…

— Nancy Holder

Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits, and spermatozoa…

— Alasdair Gray

“Somebody threw a dead dog after him down the ravine.”

— Malcolm Lowry