[ An old dog barks not in vain. ]

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks,

Before there were horses the Kiowas had need of dogs. There was a man who lived alone; he had been thrown away. ...He had one arrow left, and he shot a bear; but the bear... ran away. ...Then a dog came... and said that many enemies were coming... The man could think of no way to save himself. But the dog said, "...If you take care of my puppies, I will show you how to get away." The dog led the man... to safety.

Old Rover in his moss-greened house
Mumbles a bone, and barks at a mouse.

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.

93. — Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

Advice, chuckled Doña Vorchenza. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.

The old dog barks backward without getting up; I can remember when he was a pup.

Why, an old, mangy dog, warming himself at the hearth, and struggling to his feet with a little
whimper to welcome his master home — why, that dog has more memories than I! At least he
recognizes his master. His master. But what can I call mine?

A dead father's counsel, a wise son heedeth.

Old man, forswear that dogged rumba Go home and yield to Christian slumba.

“A dog,” said Mr. Baldock, in his lecture-room style, which was capable of rousing almost anybody to violent irritation, “has an extraordinary power of bolstering up the human ego.”