DOG QUOTES IV

quotations about dogs

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

official website FAQ


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


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


Get a good dog. We have not picked up food in the kitchen in 15 years.

PAUL REISER

Good Housekeeping, June 2011


There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

BERN WILLIAMS

attributed, Words of Wellness


Dogs are miracles with paws.

SUSAN KENNEDY

attributed, All Dogs are Angels at Heart


The dog is the only animal that leaves his own species to take up his abode with man.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

attributed, Day's Collacon


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


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


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

ALDOUS HUXLEY

attributed, And I Quote


An old dog will learn no tricks.

ITALIAN PROVERB


A dog with a bone knows no friend.

DUTCH PROVERB


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

ROGER A. CARAS

A Celebration of Dogs


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


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


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

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


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


Dogs are everything we wish we were.

BRADLEY TREVOR GREIVE & RACHAEL HALE

Why Dogs are Better than Cats


It's actually not too difficult to get a dog to bring a ball back to you once you learn how. It helps to start by understanding that dogs are just trying to teach you to play their game while you're trying to teach them yours. Who ends up training whom first depends on you. Keep in mind that dogs are naturals as animal trainers, while humans aren't, so you'd better be on your toes when you start to try out "fetch" with a new dog.

PATRICIA MCCONNEL

The Other End of the Leash


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