Dog fighting

 is a type of blood sport that turns game and fighting dogs against each other in a physical fight, often to the death, for the purposes of gambling and entertainment for the spectators.

Quotes

 * What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight—it's the size of the fight in the dog.
 * Dwight D. Eisenhower, quoted in The Washington Post (1 February 1958), p. 1


 * A Mastiff of true English blood Lov'd fighting better than his food.
 * John Gay, "The Mastiffs", Fables (1738)


 * Like as a Mastiffe having at a bay A salvage Bull, whose cruell hornes doe threat Desperate daunger.
 * Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1580)

Proverbs

 * Tulying dogs come halting home.
 * James Kelly, Scottish Proverbs (1721)
 * Spoken when quarrelers come off with the worse. English: Brabling dogs have sore ears.


 * A dogfight at home is more interesting than a civil war in Asia.
 * American (California & New York) Proverb, reported in A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1996)


 * Fighting dogs never win.
 * American (Kentucky & Tennessee) Proverb, reported in A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1996)


 * All's fair in a dogfight.
 * American (New York) Proverb, reported in A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1996)
 * Variant: All's fair in a dog's fight.


 * One dog may kill another, but that doesn't stop dogfights.
 * American (Texas) Proverb, reported in A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1996)