A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

LOVE me, love my dog
Cf. ST. BERNARD Sermon: In Festo Sancti Michaelis iii. qui me amat, amat et canem meum, who loves me, also loves my dog; early 14th-cent. Fr. et ce dit le sage qui mayme il ayme mon chien, and so says the sage, who loves me loves my dog.

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  a 1500 in Archiv (1893) XC. 81 He that lovyeth me lovyeth my hound. 1546 J. HEYWOOD Dialogue of Proverbs II. ix. K4^V Ye haue bene so veraie [veritable] a hog, To my frends. What man, loue me, loue my dog. 1692 R. L’ESTRANGE Fables of Aesop cvi. Love Me, Love my Dog. . . For there are certain Decencies of Respect due to the Servant for the Master’s sake. 1826 LAMB Elia’s Last Essays (1833) 262 That you must love me, and love my dog... We could never yet form a friendship.. without the intervention of some third anomaly. . the understood dog in the proverb. 2001 Spectator 1 Dec. 28 Sir Michael had agreed to take his new job only on the condition that Mr Bolland remained at his right hand. ‘It’s a case of love me, love my dog,’ a courtier told me. ■ associates; love
  

LOVE will find a way

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  a 1607 T. DELONEY Gentle Craft (1648) I. XV. Thus love you see can finde a way, To make both Men and Maids obey. 1661 ‘T. B.’ (title) Love will finde out the way. 1765 in T. Percy Reliques III. III. 236 Over the mountains, And over the waves;.. Love will find out the way. 1962 ‘S. NASH’ Killed by Scandal ix. But he’s so fond of June that I’m sure it’s going to be all right. Love will find a way. 1975 Listener 16 Oct. 504 The red­plush curtain fell on a reprise of ‘Love will find a way’. "love
  

love see also (noun) the COURSE of true love never did run smooth; all’s FAIR in love and war; when the FURZE is in bloom, my love’s in tune; LUCKY at cards, unlucky in love; MONEY is the root of all evil; it is best to be OFF with the old love before you are on with the new; PITY is akin to love; when POVERTY comes in at the door, love flies out of the window; PRAISE the child, and you make love to the mother; the QUARREL of lovers is the renewal of love; (verb) EVERYBODY loves a lord; whom the GODS love die young.