quotations about dogs
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
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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
Did you hear about the dog that was so high-strung, he developed a nervous tick?
JAY LENO
Jay Leno's How to Be the Funniest Kid in the Whole Wide World
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
BERN WILLIAMS
attributed, Words of Wellness
If a dog not naturally possessed of the devil will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you ought to go home and examine your conscience.
WOODROW WILSON
The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson
A biting dog does not bark.
KOREAN PROVERB
As the hound, so the pup.
IRISH PROVERB
Folks are like dogs, and dogs are like folks, and a heap of 'em wants the palings between.
BILL ARP
"Bill Arp Philosophizes", Wallace's Monthly, May 1884
A dog with a bone knows no friend.
DUTCH PROVERB
Dogs are dim creatures, do not speak to me of their good sense--have you ever heard of a team of tomcats hauling a sled across the frozen wastes?
JOHN BANVILLE
The Infinities
The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady's pet, is only a degenerate wolf.
LIN YUTANG
My Country and My People
The dog is the only animal that leaves his own species to take up his abode with man.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
attributed, Day's Collacon
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
RITA RUDNER
stand-up routine
Every boy who has a dog should also have a mother, so the dog can be fed regularly.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.
JAMES THURBER
introduction, The Fireside Book of Dog Stories
Beware of the dog that does not bark.
PORTUGUESE PROVERB
An old dog will learn no tricks.
ITALIAN PROVERB
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
ROGER A. CARAS
A Celebration of Dogs
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
attributed, And I Quote
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