Saying 102: The Dog in the Manger
Damn the Pharisees: they are like a dog asleep in the cattle trough, who neither eats nor lets the cattle eat.
Commentary
A Greek fable pressed into service as a woe-saying. The complaint is the same as saying 39 — the gatekeepers block a door they will not go through themselves.
Parallels
Matthew 23:13; Luke 11:52; Aesop
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