Dogs Quotations

Edward Abbey

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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

- Edward Abbey

Unknown Author

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My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.

- Unknown Author

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

- Unknown Author

One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why.

- Unknown Author

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

- Unknown Author

The dog is the only animal that has seen his god.

- Unknown Author

Dave Barry

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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

Henry Ward Beecher

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The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Robert Benchley

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

- Robert Benchley

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

- Robert Benchley

Josh Billings

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

- Josh Billings

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

Samuel Butler

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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

Karel Capek

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

- Karel Capek

Roger Caras

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Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

- Roger Caras

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Sir Winston Churchill

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The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.

- Sir Winston Churchill

Colette

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Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on.

- Colette

Robertson Davies

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The dog is a yes-animal, very popular with people who can't afford to keep a yes-man.

- Robertson Davies

Emily Dickinson

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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 human beings, because they know but do not tell.

- Emily Dickinson

Max Eastman

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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

George Eliot

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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

- George Eliot

George Gordon

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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.

- George Gordon

Aldous Huxley

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

- Aldous Huxley

Holbrook Jackson

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Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

- Holbrook Jackson

Jerome K. Jerome

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Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.

- Jerome K. Jerome

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

Franklin P. Jones

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Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

- Franklin P. Jones

David Star Jordan

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When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

- David Star Jordan

Fran Lebowitz

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

- Fran Lebowitz

Maurice Maeterlinck

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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

Christopher Morley

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No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

- Christopher Morley

Ogden Nash

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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

- Ogden Nash

Robert M. Pirsig

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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

Polish Proverb

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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's.

- Polish Proverb

Portuguese Proverb

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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread.

- Portuguese Proverb

Gilda Radner

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