#Dogs Quotes

“My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So flew'd, so sanded; their heads are hung with ears that sweep away the morning dew.”

“His name is Rufus II-but the II is silent.”

“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”

“I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.”

“No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.”

“An Airedale can do anything any other dog can do and then whip the other dog if he has to.”

“I got a dog and named him 'Stay'. Now, I go 'Come here, Stay!' After a while, the dog went insane and wouldn't move at all.”

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”

“If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”

“He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over.”

“The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.”

“the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.”

“What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.”

“What a dog I got. Last night he went on the paper four times - three while I was reading it.”

“Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.”

“We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.”

“I just love dogs, and there really is no better companion than an animal.”

“A dog has the soul of a philosopher.”

“There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.”

“Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon. I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh. The fact that we still live with dogs, even when we don't have to herd or hunt our dinner, gives me hope for humans and canines alike.”

“The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.”

“Your dog is your only philosopher.”

“Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls.”

“Oh, that dog! Ever hear of a German Shepherd that bites its nails? Barks with a lisp? You say, "Attack!" And he has one. All he does is piddle. He's nothing but a fur-covered kidney that barks.”

“I have nothing against dogs. I just hate rugs that go squish-squish.”

“It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog.”

“A dog came to my door, so I gave him a bone, the dog took the bone into the back yard and buried it. I'm going to go plant a tree there, with bones on it, then the dog will come back and say, "Shoot! It worked! I must distribute these bones equally for I have a green paw!"”

“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. . .”

“A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.”

“You may not agree, you may not care, but if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love in this world — and there are plenty — very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes.”

“Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift.”

“I have a little dog who likes to nap with me. He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck. He is sweeter than soap. He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace, which can't even bark.”

“When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.”

“Dogs wait for us faithfully.”

“The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.”

“Living with a dog is easy- like living with an idealist.”

“Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long.”

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”

“Your dog thinks you're a god. Your cat thinks the dog's an asshole.”

“These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, on my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don't resent attacks... but Fala does resent them.”

“I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself . . . But I think I have a right to resent, to object to libelous statements about my dog.”

“Every puppy should have a boy.”

“When you leave them in the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until you turn the key eight hours later.”

“Dogsled-riding is a sport that is relaxing as well as fragrant.”

“You can say any fool thing to a dog and the dog will just give you this look that says, 'My GOSH, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!”

“Never have a dog. Let's not beat around the bush here: dogs are morons.”

“I've always found relationships, men and women, the fact that they are so radically different, and it manifests itself in so many different ways, and yet somehow we still try to live together and be friends. I find that endlessly valuable as a source of material for humor. Generally dogs are always funny in my opinion. And the federal government - just a relentlessly productive source of humor.”

“Mousse was a Labrador retriever, which is a large enthusiastic bulletproof species of dog made entirely from synthetic materials. This is the kind of dog that, if it takes an interest in your personal regions (which of course it does) you cannot fend it off with a blowtorch.”

“We have always had dogs, and they have faithfully performed many valuable services for us, such as: 1. Peeing on everything. 2. When we're driving in our car, alerting us that we have passed another dog by barking real loud in our ears for the next 114 miles. 3. Trying to kill the Avon lady.”

“Earnest is our dog. She senses instantly that something is wrong, and guided by that timeless and unerring nurturing instinct that all female dogs have, she tries to lick my ears off.”