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Quotes About Dogs

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• A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.--Robert Benchley (1889--1945), U.S. humorist

• A dog wags its tail with its heart.--Martin Buxbaum

• Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives.--Sue Murphy

• 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.-- Dave Barry, U.S. humorist

• Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.--Agnes Sligh Turnbull (1927--1987), U.S. writer

• Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.-- Charlton Ogburn Jr. (1911--1988), U.S. writer

• Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.--Mark Twain (1835-1910)

• Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.--Alexander Pope 1688--1744), English poet

• I spilled spot remover on my dog--and now he's gone.--Steven Wright (1955--), U.S. comedian

• If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one. -- Andy Rooney (1919-- ), U.S. broadcaster

• I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.--Rita Rudner, US comedienne

• I wonder what goes through his mind when he sees us peeing in his water bowl.--Penny Ward Moser, U.S. magazine writer

• Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.--Holbrook Jackson (1874-- 1948), English writer/critic

• My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpets or ruin our lives.--Rita Rudner, U.S. comedienne

• 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.--H.W. Shaw (aka Josh Billings), (1815-1885), U.S. humorist

• One dog barks at something; the rest bark at him.--Chinese proverb

• People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.--August Strindberg (1849--1912), Swedish writer

• Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend.--Corey Ford, U.S. humorist

• Qui me amat, amet et canem meum. ("Love me, love my dog.")--St. Bernard, A.D. 1150, "Sermo Primus"

• Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job -- Franklin P. Jones (1853-1935), U.S. humorist

• The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.--Andrew A. Rooney, U.S. broadcaster

• The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.--Warren Bennis, U.S. leadership guru

• The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.--Margot Kaufman, American writer

• They never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation. -- Jerome K. Jerome (1859--1927), British comic writer

• To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.--Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), English novelist

• You may have a dog that won't sit up, roll over or even cook breakfast, not because she's too stupid to learn how but because she's too smart to bother.--Rick Horowitz, Chicago Tribune

• The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue." -Anonymous

• "Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful." -Ann Landers

• "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." -Will Rogers

• "There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face." -Ben Williams

• "A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself." -Josh Billings

• "We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made." -M.Facklam

• "Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate." -Sigmund Freud

• "If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons." -James Thurber

• "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." -Dave Barry

• "Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog." -Franklin P. Jones

• "My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. That's almost $21.00 in dog money." - Joe Weinstein

• "Ever consider what they must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul -- chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!" -Anne Tyler

• "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." -Robert A. Heinlein

• A dog is a yes-animal, very popular with people who can't afford to keep a yes-man.--Robertson Davies (1913--1995), Canadian playwright/Novelist

• A dog is not almost human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.--John Holmes

• A dog is the only thing on this earth that loves you more than you love yourself.--Josh Billings (1818--1885), U.S. humorist

• "The greatest 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." --Samuel Butler

• "If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people." --Capek

• "The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two." --Maeterlinck

• "Whoever said you can’t buy happiness forgot about little puppies." --Gene Hill

• "No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does." --Christopher Morley

• "I've seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts." --John Steinbeck

• "If your dog doesn't like someone you probably shouldn't either." --Unknown

• "Old dogs, like old shoes, are comfortable. They might be a bit out of shape and a little worn around the edges, but they fit well." --Bonnie Wilcox 'Old Dogs, Old Friends'

• "The more people I meet the more I like my dog." --Unknown

• "In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog." --Edward Hoagland

• "I once decided not to date a guy because he wasn't excited to meet my dog. I mean, this was like not wanting to meet my mother." --Bonnie Schacter

• "No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich." --Louis Sabin

• "Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail." --Josh Billings

• "A piece of grass a day keeps the vet away." --Unknown Dog

• "Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." --Roger Caras

• "The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic." --Henry Ward Beecher

• "Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs." --Martha Scott

• "Every dog must have his day." --Jonathan Swift

• "I have always thought of a dog lover as a dog that was in love with another dog." --James Thurber

• "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. It is the principal difference between a dog and a man." --Mark Twain

• "The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog." --George Graham Vest

• "Every boy who has a dog should also have a mother, so the dog can be fed regularly." --Anonymous

• "Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress." --Louis Sabin

• "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." --Roger Caras

• "A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk." --O. A. Battista

• "A dog is man's best friend, and vice versa." --Anonymous

• "The dog has got more fun out of man than man has got out of the dog, for man is the more laughable of the two animals." --James Thurber

• "A good dog deserves a good home." --Proverb

• "A watchdog is a dog kept to guard your home, usually by sleeping where a burglar would awaken the household by falling over him." --Anonymous

• "There's just something about dogs that makes you feel good. You come home, they're thrilled to see you. They're good for the ego." --Janet Schnellman

• "Every dog isn't a growler, and every growler isn't a dog." --Anonymous

• "A dog's bark may be worse than his bite, but everyone prefers his bark." --Anonymous

• "The ideal dog food would be a ration that tastes like a postman." --Anonymous

• "A dog can express more with his tail in minutes than his owner can express with his tongue in hours." --Anonymous

• "There is only one smartest dog in the world, and every boy has it." --Anonymous

• "Every dog may have his day, but it's the puppies that have the weekends." --Anonymous

• "It's no coincidence that man's best friend cannot talk." --Anonymous

• "A dog's bark may be worse than his bite, but it's never quite so personal." --Anonymous

• "Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails." --Max Eastman

• "I can train any dog in 5 minutes. It's training the owner that takes longer." --Barbara Woodhouse

• "You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us." --Robert Louis Stevenson

• "You can’t keep a good man down -- or an over-affectionate dog." --Anonymous

• "No animal I know of can consistently be more of a friend and companion than a dog." --Stanley Leinwoll

• "When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget they're not people." --Julia Glass

• "You own a dog; you feed a cat." --Jim Fiebig

• "Any time you think you have influence, try ordering around someone else's dog." --The Cockle Bur

• "Old Yeller was bought for 3 dollars from a shelter; his real name was Spike." --World Features Syndicate

• "Disney's "Shaggy Dog" was bought for 2 dollars at a pound." --World Features Syndicate

• "… none are as fiercely loyal as dog people. In return, no doubt, for the never-ending loyalty of dogs." --Linda Shrieves, Orlando Sentinel

• "Happiness is a warm puppy." --Charles Schulz

• "A collie has the brain of a man, and the ways of a woman." --Scottish Proverb

• "Many dogs will give a greeting grin much like a human smile." --Richard A. Wolters

• "Intelligent dogs rarely want to please people whom they do not respect." --W.R. Koehler

• "There is no faith which has never yet been broken except that of a truly faithful dog." --Konrad Lorenz

• "The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people." --Daniel Pinkwater

• "I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs." --Barbara Woodhouse

Last updated: October 2, 2003