Dog Quotes 1
collected by Kennel Benfro
The Quotes is presented alphabetically by the person who said the wise words. On this page you will find:
A - B - C - D
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A
- ABBEY, EDWARD
- "When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem."
- ACKERLY, J.R.
- "Dogs love company. They place it first in their short list of needs."
- ALEXANDER, LLOYD
- "She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place."
- AMSTERDAM, MOREY
- "My neighbor has two dogs. One of them says to the other, "Woof!" The other replies, "Moo!" The dog is perplexed. "Moo? Why did you say, "Moo'?" The other dog says, "I'm trying to learn a foreign language."
- AMOROS, LARRY
- "I bought my grandmother a Seeing Eye dog. But he's a little sadistic. He does impressions of cars screeching to a halt."
- ANDERSON, HJORDIS
- "Some dogs live for praise they look at you as if to say "Don't throw balls... just throw bouquets."
B
- BAGNOLD, ENID
- "If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal."
- BALZAC, HONORE DE
- "When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary."
- BARRY, DAVE
- "Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.
- "Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued in the next yard."
- "You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, 'My God, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!"
- BATTISTA, O. A.
- "A dog is one of the few remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk."
- BAUDELAIRE
- "How often have I not smiled and been touched as I contemplated these four-footed Philosophers, these obliging, obedient, devoted slaves, that the republican dictionary might well describe as unofficial, if the Republic, far too concerned with the happiness of men, could find a little time to treat with respect the honor of dogs!" "And many times I have thought that somewhere (who knows after all?) There may be a special paradise for the good dogs, the poor dogs, the dirty and lonely dogs, to reward so much courage, so much patience and labour."
- BEECHER, HENRY WARD
- "The dog was created specifically for children. He is the god of frolic."
- BENCHLEY, ROBERT
- "A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."
- "There is no doubt that every healthy, normal boy (if there is such a thing in these days of Child Study) should own a dog at sometime in his life, preferably between the ages of forty-five and fifty."
- "Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that a child cannot do much harm one way or another."
- "Every boy should have a dog. It teaches him to turn around three times before lying down. "
- BENJAMIN, CAROL LEA
- "Trained or not, he'll always be his own dog to a degree."
- BERRY, DAVID
- "You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, "My God, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would have thought of that!"
- BESTON, HENRY
- "Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time."
- BIERCE, AMBROSE
- "Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship."
- "The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog."
- "Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man."
- BILLINGS, JOSH
- "A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself."
- "Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland."
- "The dog that will follow everybody ain 't worth a curse. "
- "The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other. "
- BISMARK, OTTO VON
- "Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. The believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their companions in life. I wish I could believe that too.
- BLAKE, WILLIAM
- "A dog starved at his master's gate predicts the ruin of the state."
- BLANTON, SMILEY
- "Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane."
- BLUESTONE, STEVE
- "Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window."
- BOGART, JOHN
- "When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news."
- BOMBECK, ERNA
- "When you leave them in the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until you turn the key eight hours later."
- BONAPARTE, NAPOLEON
- "Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity"
- BOONE, J. ALLEN
- "There's facts about dogs, and then there's opinions about them. The dogs have the facts, and the humans have the opinions. If you want the facts about the dog, always get them straight from the dog. If you want opinions, get them from humans ."
- BROWN, CHIP
- "The Airedale... an unrivaled mixture of brains, and clownish wit, the very ingredients one looks for in a spouse."
- BROWN, H. G.
- "One barking dog set all the street a-barking"
- "Dogs begin in jest and end in earnest"
- BROWN, JACK
- "A dog lives for the moment and always hopes for the best."
- BRUCE, DEREKE
- "In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him."
- BRYAN III, J.
- "When you point out something to a dog, he looks at your finger. "
- BUBER, MARTIN
- "An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language."
- BUCKINGHAM, NASH
- "Tell me, if you can, of anything that's finer than an evening in camp with a rare old friend and a dog after one's heart. "
- BURNET, DANA
- "I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree."
- BUTLER, SAM
- "The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."
- BUXBAUM, MARTIN
- "A dog wags its tail with its heart."
- BYRON, LORD
- 'Tis sweet to hear the watch dogs' honest bark Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming and look brighter when we come.' From Don Juan.
- Inscription on the monument raised for Lord Byron's dog, Boatswain:
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery, if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just Tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog.
C
- CAMDEN, WILLIAM
- "It is hard to teach an old dog tricks."
- CAPEK, KAREL
- "If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people."
- CARAS, ROGER
- "If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life."
- "Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole."
- "Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made."
- "I am as confounded by dogs as I am indebted to them."
- "Children growing up with pets they love and care for seem to turn out to be good parents and more selfless mates"
- We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.
- "Being patted is what it is all about."
- CELESTE, JIMI
- "I have a great dog. She's half Lab, half pit bull. A good combination. Sure, she might bite off my leg, but she'll bring it back to me."
- CHANEY, MARKOFF
- "Dogs love us, but they are very observant animals. I'm sure they notice that we keep the best food for ourselves."
- CHAUCER
- "It is naught good a sleeping hound to wake."
- CHEEVER, BENJAMIN H.
- "When I was a child, my father told me that when he died he expected to be judged by a panel of Labrador Retrievers. I pictured the scene: a semicircle of dogs with stainless steel choke collars and crimson rabies tags. Souls would come forward. The dogs would count sins. The court would be silent, although there might be the jangle of a collar now and then if His Highness, or Her Highness, had a flea."
- CHRISTIE, AGATHA
- "Why keep a dog and bark yourself?"
- CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON
- "The nose of the Bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go."
- CLARK, J.
- "Into the mouth of a bad dog often falls a good bone."
- CLIFFORD, YVONNE
- "I know that dogs are pack animals, but it's difficult to imagine a pack of standard poodles . . . and if there was such a thing as a pack of standard poodles, where would they rove to? Bloomingdales?"
- COLETTE
- "Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on."
- " Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. "
- COLLAS, JUDITH
- "Her life was okay. Sometimes she wished she were sleeping with the right man instead of with her dog, but she never felt she was sleeping with the wrong dog."
- COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR
- "When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will."
- CORELLI, MARIE
- "I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband: I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night."
- COREN, STANLEY
- "Dogs do know fear. . . . The greatest fear dogs know . . . is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them."
- CORLONEL, WILLIAM
- "I don't eat anything a dog won't eat. Like Sushi. Ever see a dog eat sushi? He just sniffs it and says, "I don't think so." And this is an animal that licks between its legs and sniffs fire hydrants."
- COWARD, NOEL
- "Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun."
- CRANE, FRAZIER
- "Give a dog an hour and you can charge him for seven."
- CUPPY, WILL
- "If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence."
D
- DALAI LAMA
- "Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures."
- DANA, CHARLES ANDERSON
- "When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.
- DARWIN, CHARLES
- "I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like a conscience."
- DAVIES, MARY C.
- "A good dog never dies, he always stays, he walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near, his head is within our hand in his old way. "
- DAY, CLARENCE
- "Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves."
- DICKINSON, E.
- "You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself that my father bought me. They are better than beings, because they know, but do not tell."
- DIOGENES
- I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.
- DODMAN, DR. NICHOLAS
- "Dogs are, after all, man's best friend. The least we can do is try to understand them a little better."
- DORAN, CHARLES F.
- "Folk will know how large your soul is, by the way you treat a dog
- DUNBAR, DR. IAN
- "Rambunctious, rumbustious, delinquent dogs become angelic when sitting."
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