quotations about dogs
Weak dogs become bones for other, stronger dogs.
TAD WILLIAMS
Otherland: City of Golden Shadow
Some scientists believe dogs are like immature wolves. They think that genetic changes occurred that stopped their mental and physical maturation. This explains why dogs throughout their lives act like wolf youngsters, remaining trusting and playful.
D. CAROLINE COILE
How Smart Is Your Dog?
A dog does not flee from a bone.
IRISH PROVERB
An old dog does not bark in vain.
SPANISH PROVERB
A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Dogs want to be people. That's what their lives are about. They don't like being a dog. They're with people all the time, they want to graduate. My dog would sit there all day, he would watch me walk by, he would think to himself, "I could do that! He's not that good."
JERRY SEINFELD
stand-up routine
Dogs are like people: what they learn when they are young. whether of good or of evil, is not readily forgotten.
ROY NARINESINGH
Comprehension Skills for the Caribbean
You dogs are smart enough to know that worry is something you do with a bone, and let it got at that. Even Pavlov couldn't do any more than prove that your brain is in your gut--something that you knew all along.
FRANK LOESSER
letter to Angel Steinbeck, A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life
Dogs are obsessed with being happy.
JAMES THURBER
attributed, Dogs Don't Bite When a Growl Will Do
A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own the rain, or the trees, or the laws which pertain to them.... A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing.
MARY OLIVER
"Her Grave,", New and Selected Poems
Some men are kinder to the occupants of their kennels than to their families; they will treat wife and children like dogs, but not dogs themselves so.
G. D. PRENTICE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
The Portable Athiest
Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.
FRENCH PROVERB
I love a good dog--a good house dog that guards the premises and has an honest bark and loves my children. I love him because he loves me.
BILL ARP
Wallace's Monthly, May 1884
Dogs are social. Cats are sociopaths.
BRADLEY TREVOR GREIVE & RACHAEL HALE
Why Dogs are Better than Cats
A puppy is but a god, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
AGNES REPPLIER
attributed, The Greatest Quotations of All Time
Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to 'em because they couldn't. I can't help being sorry for the dogs always, though perhaps there's no need. But they may well have more in them than they know how to make us understand, for we can't say half what we feel, with all our words.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
ROGER CARAS
attributed, All Dogs are Angels at Heart
The dog's agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with that, kiss you. There are no ulterior motives with a dog, no mind games, no second-guessing, no complicated negotiations or bargains, and no guilt trips or grudges if a request is denied. If you've spent a lifetime navigating the landscape of human relationships, characterized as it can be by covetness and ambivalence and indirection, this can be an enormous relief.
CAROLINE KNAPP
Pack of Two
Dogs have this uncanny ability to bring out the funny side in all of us.
KIM LEVIN
Dogs are Funny