quotations about dogs
Dogs are just wolves in sheep's clothing.
STANLEY COREN
Why Does My Dog Act That Way?
An old dog does not bark in vain.
SPANISH PROVERB
Dogs are miracles with paws.
SUSAN KENNEDY
attributed, All Dogs are Angels at Heart
Dogs are easy. If their tails are up and their eyes are soft, you're in.
PAULA MCLAIN
Like Family
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
Dogs are voiceless ... a critical part of having dogs is emotional responsibility: learning how to understand them and, when necessary, to speak and act on their behalf.
JON KATZ
The New Work of Dogs
No one ... appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as a dog does.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
John Mistletoe
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
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
GROUCHO MARX
The Essential Groucho
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.
ROGER A. CARAS
A Celebration of Dogs
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
The noblest of all dogs is the hot dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Get a good dog. We have not picked up food in the kitchen in 15 years.
PAUL REISER
Good Housekeeping, June 2011
Dogs are minor angels, and I don't mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally, forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to do anything that makes us happy, etcetera. If we attributed some of those qualities to a person we would say they are special. If they had ALL of them, we would call them angelic. But because it's "only" a dog, we dismiss them as sweet or funny but little more. However when you think about it, what are the things that we most like in another human being? Many times those qualities are seen in our dogs every single day-- we're just so used to them that we pay no attention.
JONATHAN CARROLL
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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
When the forefinger of twilight begins to smudge the clear-drawn lines of the Big City there is inaugurated an hour devoted to one of the most melancholy sights of urban life. Out from the towering flat crags and apartment peaks of the cliff dwellers of New York steals an army of beings that were once men. Even yet they go upright upon two limbs and retain human form and speech; but you will observe that they are behind animals in progress. Each of these beings follows a dog, to which he is fastened by an artificial ligament. These men are all victims to Circe. Not willingly do they become flunkeys to Fido, bell boys to bull terriers, and toddlers after Towzer. Modern Circe, instead of turning them into animals, has kindly left the difference of a six-foot leash between them. Every one of those dogmen has been either cajoled, bribed, or commanded by his own particular Circe to take the dear household pet out for an airing. By their faces and manner you can tell that the dogmen are bound in a hopeless enchantment. Never will there come even a dog-catcher Ulysses to remove the spell.
O. HENRY
"Ulysses and the Dogman"
One reason most dogs are much happier than most people is that dogs aren't affected by external circumstances the way we are. I notice that even when it's pouring rain outside, my dogs, Blue and Celeste, are still excited to go for a walk. As soon as I open the front door to look outside, they're beside me in a flash, standing expectantly, ready for an adventure. I usually wait for a break in the downpour, and then we all dash out together. The fact that the ground is soggy and there are mud puddles dotting the landscape means nothing to the dogs. While I'm gingerly picking my way around the wet spots, the dogs are joyfully splashing right through them. They aren't afraid to get their paws dirty.
MATT WEINSTEIN & LUKE BARBER
Dogs Don't Bit When a Growl Will Do
Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.
GENE HILL
A Hunter's Fireside Guide: Tales of Dogs
The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivabale encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no preciser name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.
THOMAS MANN
"A Man and His Dog,", Stories of Three Decades