Dog Quotes - quotes for pet owners

"I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better." - George Bird Evans, "Troubles with Bird Dogs"

"Even the tiniest Poodle or Chihuahua is still a wolf at heart." - Dorothy Hinshaw Patent, Dogs: The Wolf Within

"If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one." - Andy Rooney

"They [dogs] 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

"When a dog wags her tail and barks at the same time, how do you know which end to believe?" - Anonymous

"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." - Josh Billings

"Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane." - Smiley Blanton

"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

"What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs." - E V Lucas

"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

"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

"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

"Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer." - Leo Rosten

"If a picture wasn't going very well I'd put a puppy dog in it, always a mongrel, you know, never one of the full bred puppies. And then I'd put a bandage on its foot... I liked it when I did it, but now I'm sick of it." - Norman Rockwell

"Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home his face might burn up." - "DEEP THOUGHTS" by Jack Handy

"I took my dog for a walk... all the way from New York to Florida... I said to him "There now you're done." - Steven Wright

"By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a "noble" animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward- you will never get her full confidence again." - Mark Twain

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

"I named my dog 'Stay'... so I can say 'Come here, Stay. Come here, Stay.'" - Steven Wright

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

"The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's." - Mark Twain, Letter to W D Howells, 4/2/1899

"Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail." - Henry Wheeler Shaw

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

"I spilled spot remover on my dog. He's gone now." - Steven Wright

"I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they chose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas." - "DEEP THOUGHTS" by Jack Handy

"I put contact lenses in my dog's eyes. They had little pictures of cats on them. Then I took one out and he ran around in circles." - Steven Wright

"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

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

"Recipe; a series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don't own, to make a dish the dog won't eat." - Unknown

"Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat." - Rule 46, Oxford Union Society, London

"You gonna bark all day little doggy, or are you gonna bite?" - Mr. Blonde "Reservoir Dogs"

"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs." - Christopher Hampton

"When a dog runs at you, whistle for him." - Henry David Thoreau

"Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs." - George Chapman

"Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end." - Max Eastman

"I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive." - Gilda Radner

"My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money." - Joe Weinstein

"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement." - Snoopy

"Oh, yeah, what are you gonna do? Release the dogs? Or the bees? Or the dogs with bees in their mouth and when they bark, they shoot bees at you?" - Homer from the Simpsons

"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg." - Abraham Lincoln

"Elizabeth's back at the red cross, and I'm walking the dog." - Bob Dole, on the Today Show, describing life after the elections, 1997

"It freshens your breath and helps prevent tartar." - Mel Gibson, while eating a dog biscuit at Harvard, 1996

"Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant." - Unknown

"Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer." - Leo Rosten

"Barking dogs don't bite people they don't know." - Unknown

"Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top." - Robert Burton

"How's it going Mr. Peterson?" - Woody "It's a dog eat dog world, Woody, and I'm wearing milk bone underwear." - Norm from Cheers

"Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar." - Steve Allen

"The biggest dog has been a pup." - Joaquin Miller, US poet

"There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly. The second is from the Psalms; grin like a dog and run about through the city." - Jan Morris

"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs." - John Osborne, Time 31 Oct 77

"[My dog] can bark like a congressman, fetch like an aide, beg like a press secretary and play dead like a receptionist when the phone rings." - Gerald B H Solomon, US Congressman, Entry in contest to identify Capitol Hill's Great American Dog, NY Times 9 Aug 86

"A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas." - H L Mencken, Quoted by Geoffrey H Hartman Easy Pieces Columbia University 85

"This isn't like naming your dog Spot." - Richard Melville, Secretary, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, On scientific Latin names for plants and animals, Wall Street Journal 13 Jul 84

"First you learn a new language, profanity; and second you learn not to discipline your dogs when you're mad, and that's most of the time when you're training dogs." - Lou Schultz, trainer of Alaskan Huskies

"He's fair. He treats us all the same-like dogs." - Henry Jordan, Green Bay Packers right tackle On Vince Lombardi, recalled on Lombardi's death 3 Sep 70

"Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species." - Melvin Maddocks, "Baseball-The Difference between Night and Day" Christian Science Monitor 3 Apr 85

"[London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as you keep them under control, give them their exercise, feed them, pat them, you will find their wild emotions are amusing, and their characters interesting." - V S Pritchett, London Perceived Harcourt, Brace & World 62

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

"Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of ther 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

"When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem." - Edward Abbey

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

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person." - Andrew A. Rooney

"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." - Unknown

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

"Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane." - Smiley Blanton

"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

"When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news." - Charles Anderson Dana, 'What is News?', The New York Sun 1882

"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

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

"I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it." - Abraham Lincoln

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

"My dog is half pit bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!" - Craig Shoemaker

"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends." - Alexander Pope

"I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons." - Will Rogers

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

"If you don't mind throwing tennis balls for eternity, I do have an opening in doggie heaven." - Frank and Ernest comic strip, an angel at St. Peter's gate, to a man seeking admittance

"Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.." - Henry Wheeler Shaw

"J'embrasse mon chien sur la bouche!" (I kiss my dog on the mouth.) - Unknown

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

"They say a reasonable amount 'o fleas is good fer a dog -- keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe." - Edward Westcott

"DOG, n. A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition." - Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.

"There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog." waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there. - Lee Iacocca, US auto business executive

"You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog." - Carl Icahn, US auto business executive

"A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion." - Washington Irving

"I like dogs better [than people]. They give you unconditional love. They either lick your face or bite you, but you always know where they're coming from. With people, you never know which ones will bite. The difference between dogs and men is that you know where dogs sleep at night." - Greg Louganis

"If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around." - cowboy wisdom

"My dog is usually pleased with what I do, because she is not infected with the concept of what I "should" be doing." - Lonzo Idolswine

"I used to look at [my dog] Smokey and think, 'If you were a little smarter you could tell me what you were thinking,' and he'd look at me like he was saying, 'If you were a little smarter, I wouldn't have to.'" - Fred Jungclaus

"A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog." - E N Westcott

"If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already." Actual Twents: "At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene." Meaning:Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.

"The dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup." - Robert Frost

"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience." - Woodrow Wilson

"If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater...suggest that he wear a tail." - Fran Lebowitz

"When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem." - Edward Abbey

"When old dogs bark, it's time to watch out." - Unknown

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

"Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job." - Franklin P Jones

"The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien." - Plato

"Politics are not my concern... they impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies." - Rudyard Kipling

"If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog." - George Bernard Shaw

"No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has." - Will Rogers

"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags it's tail it knocks over a chair." - Arnold Toynbee

"If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog." - George Bernard Shaw

"No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has." - Will Rogers

"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags it's tail it knocks over a chair." - Arnold Toynbee

"The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people." - Daniel Pinkwater 'Train Your Dog, Dammit!'

"A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man." - Frances Thompson New York Times Magazine May 14, 1967

"In a dog-eat-dog world, it is the dogmatic domain of dog lovers to offer dogdom a dog's chance to rise above the dog days for a doggone good time." - AKC Gazette August 1991

"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult." - Rita Rudner

"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

"Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger." - Albert Payson Terhune 'The Coming of Lad'

"Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun!" - Groucho Marx

"In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man." - Maurice Maeterlinck 'Our Friend, The Dog'

"Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit." - Sir Walter Scott 'The Talisman'

"The dog is man's best friend.
He has a tail on one end.
Up in front he has teeth.
And four legs underneath." - Ogden Nash 'An Introduction to Dogs'

"The nose of the Bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go." - Winston Churchill

"If you can't decide between a Shepherd, a Setter or a Poodle, get them all ... adopt a mutt!" - ASPCA

"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog." - Jack London

"If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain." - Adlai E Stevenson Jr.

"I like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether it's aman or a dog; it's best for every day." - George Bernard Shaw

"A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion." - A A Milne

"There's not much you can do with a terrier, ma'am." - Los Angeles dog trainer

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

"Jesse has a new dog. You may have noticed that his former pets have been peculiarly unfortunate. When this dog dies every employee in the White House will be at once discharged." - Ulysses Grant to White house staff when his son got a Newfoundland pup, and after others of his dogs had died mysteriously

"...it takes a strong minded human to appreciate a string-minded dog!" - Mary Webber

"When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog along to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten." - Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

"I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree." - Dana Burnet

"My little dog---a heartbeat at my feet." - Edith Wharton

"Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads." - Harry S Truman

"The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs." - Nietzche

"All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers is contained in the dog." - Kafka

"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. . . .He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. . . .When all other friends desert, he remains." - George G Vest

"If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer." - Alfred North Whitehead

"Never stand between a dog and the hydrant." - John Peers

"I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog." - Wendy Liebman

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

"You do not own a dog, the dog owns you." - Unknown

"Researches have discovered that dogs can comprehend a vocabulary of 2,000 words, whereas cats can only comprehend 25 to 50. No one ever asks how many words researches can comprehend." - Unknown

"I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world." - Samuel Johnson

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

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs." - Aldous Huxley

"If you wish the dog to follow you, feed him." - Unknown

"It's hard to teach an old dog new tricks." - Unknown

"Let sleeping dogs lie." - Charles Dickens

"Every dog has his day -- but the nights are reserved for the cats." - Unknown

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down." - Robert Benchley

"The biggest dog has been a pup." - Joaquin Miller

"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience." - Woodrow Wilson

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

"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

"The difference between cats and dogs is, dogs come when they are called, cats take a message and get back to you." - Unknown

"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." - Samuel Butler

"Rambunctious, rumbustious, delinquent dogs become angelic when sitting." - Dr. Ian Dunbar

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

"All trees have bark.
All dogs bark.
Therefore, all dogs are trees.
The fallacy of barking up the wrong tree." - Unknown

"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. " - August Strindberg

"A dog is a dog except when he is facing you. Then he is Mr. Dog." - Haitian Farmer

Whoever said "let sleeping dogs lie" didn't sleep with dogs. - Unknown

"A dog may bark, but his legs will never grow longer." - Unknown

"If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer." - Alfred North Whitehead

"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." - Dereke Bruce, Taipei, Taiwan

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

"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 in their object-relations." - Sigmund Freud

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

"...Pomeranians speak only to Poodles and Poodles speak only to God." - Charles Kuralt on "48 Hours"

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs." - Aldous Huxley

"A dog wags its tail with its heart" - Martin Buxbaum

"A hungry dog hunts best." - Lee Trevino, US golfer

"I'm a mog. Half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend" - Barf, John Candy (Spaceballs)

"Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend, and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx

"Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses." - Elizabeth Taylor

"Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog." - Mark Twain, speech, 11/23/1900.

"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie!'... till you can find a rock." - Unknown

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

"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace." - Milan Kundera

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself." - Josh Billings

"Man is a dog's idea of what God should be." - Holbrook Jackson

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person." - Andrew A Rooney

"One reason a dog is such a lovable creature is his tail wags instead of his tongue." - Unknown

"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." - Robert Benchley

"I am I because my little dog knows me" - Gertrude Stein

"My goal in life is to become as wonderful as my dog thinks I am." - Toby & Eileen Green

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

"The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls." - Anatole France, "The Coming of Riquet"

"I was desperate. The swine who stole my dog doesn't realize what he did to me!" - Hitler, 1917, After a railroad worker in Alsace stole his terrier

"Man is a dog's idea of what God should be." - Holbrook Jackson

"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion" - Unknown

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person." - Andrew A. Rooney

"To his dog, every man is King; hence the constant popularity of dogs." - Aldous Huxley

The dog is the god of frolic. - Henry Ward Beecher

Lavengro
Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one. - George Borrow.

I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. - Marie Corelli

There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. - Benjamin Franklin

Elegy of the Death of a Mad Dog
The dog, to gain some praivate ends,
Went mad and bit the man. - Oliver Goldsmith

Elegy of the Death of a Mad Dog
The man recovered of the bite,
The dog it was that died. - Oliver Goldsmith

Every Man in His Humour
I do honour the very flea of his dog. - Ben Jonson

The Water Babies "Young and Old"
When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green;
And every goose a swan, lad,
And every lass a queen;
Then hey for boot and horse, lad,
And round the world away:
Young blood must have its course, lad,
And every dog his day. - Charles Kingsley

The Power of the Dog
There is sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and women to fill our day;
But when we are certain of sorrow in store,
Why do we always arrange for more?
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear. - Rudyard Kipling

Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be. - Andre Malraux

Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door. - Charleton Ogburn Jr.

Julius Caesar
I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,
Than such a Roman. - William Shakespeare

Locksley Hall
He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force,
Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

Locksley Hall
Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

It is the way of a dog that if he is hit by a stone, he bites a fellow dog. - The Zohar

Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun. - Noel Coward

The Invitation, To Tom Highes
What we can we will be,
Honest Englishmen.
Do the work that's nearest,
Though it's dull at whiles,
Helping, when we meet them,
Lame dogs over stiles. - Charles Kingsley

Sonnet 12 "I did but prompt the age'
I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs
By the known rules of ancient liberty,
When straight a barbarous noise environs me
Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs. - John Milton

L'Espirit des betes
The more one gets to know of men, the more one values dogs. - A Toussenel

Divine Songs for Children "Against Quarrelling"
Let dogs delight to bark and bite,
For God hath made them so. - Isaac Watts

The White Devil
Cowardly dogs bark loudest. - John Webster

The Let-Down
For months he had been her devoted admirer. Now, at long last, he had collected up sufficient courage to ask her the most momentous of all questions.
"There are quite a lot of advantages in being a bachelor," he began, "but there comes a time when we long for the companionship of another being-a being who will regard one as a perfect, as an idol; whom one can treat as one's absolute property; who will be kind and faithful when times are hard; who will share one's joys and sorrows-"

To his delight he saw a sympathetic gleam in her eyes. Then she nodded in agreement.

"So you're thinking of buying a dog?" she said. "I think it's a fine idea. Do let me help you choose one!"

High-Hat Pooch
Customer: "Has this dog a good pedigree?"
Shop Owner: "Has he? Say, if that dog could talk, he wouldn't speak to either of us."

Second Epistle of Peter Bible
The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. Verse 2:23

For the fifth year in succession I have pored over the catalogue of dogs in the show at Madison Square Garden without finding a dog named Rover, Towser, Sport, Spot or Fido.
Who is the man who can call from the back door at night: "Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme! Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme"? - Westbrook Pegler

He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty. - Senator Thomas P. Gore

Modern houses are so small we've had to train our dog to wag its tail up and down and not sideways. - Tacitus

Our dog chases people on a bike. We've had to take it off him. - Winston Churchill

He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things. - Honore de Balzac

Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? Bible - I Samuel 17:43

As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. Bible - Psalms 26:11

When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news. - Charles Anderson Dana

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. - Diogenes (the Cynic)

Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
And in that town a dog was found,
As many dogs there be,
Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound,
And curs of low degree. - Oliver Goldsmith

"Every boy should have two things: a dog, and a mother willing to let him have one"
- Anonymous

"A dog has lots of friends because he wags his tail and not his tongue."
- Anonymous

It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.
- Henry David Thoreau

Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility.
- S. Parkes Cadman

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
- Sri Aurobindo

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

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

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

"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

"When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma."
- Mark Twain

"Our dogs wil love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage."
- Agnes Replier

"Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves."
- Clarence Day

"The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs."
- Alphonse de Lamartine

"Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives."
- Robert Louis Stevenson

"He that lieth with the dogs, riseth with fleas."
- George Herbert

"Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet."
- Colette

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

A huge dog, tied by a chain, was painted on the wall and over it was written in capital letters "Beware of the Dog".
- Petronius Arbiter 1st Century Ad.

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