Phoenix Desert Dogs

Famous quotes containing the words phoenix, desert and/or dogs:

    “A victorious tomcat is like a tiger; a plucked phoenix is not worth a chicken.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Blame but thyself that hast misdone,
    And well deserved to have blame;
    Change thou thy way so evil begun,
    And then my lute shall sound that same:
    But if till then my fingers play
    By thy desert their wonted way,
    Blame not my lute.”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    “It’s dogs that bite that do not show their teeth.”
    —Chinese proverb.