Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1917 — Dog Proverbs. [ARTICLE]

Dog Proverbs.

As one traces the proverbial comments on dogs through the concentrated -wisdom*of the nations, their similarity is most impressive, says the Philadelphia Ledger. For example, the Latins told one another to “Beware of a silent dog and still waters,” concluded that “Dumb dogs and still waters are dangerous,” and characterized an insidious traducer as “a dog that bites silently.” The Russians, who were slightly influenced by the Latin races> say that "dogs bark and the <rWlnd carries it away,” but the French, Spaniards, Germans and English, who have inherited more than they wish to acknowledge from ancient Rome all agree that “barking dogs don’t bite,” and we have also in English the warning to “have a care for a silent dog and still water,” which is clearly a free translation of the Latin original.