Best quotes and aphorisms on dogs, ideas, thoughts and opinions by famous authors, writers and artists on the most loved pet friend that faithfully live with us.
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
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What’s one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully.
Jon Katz
Every dog must have his day.
Jonathan Swift
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
Lord Byron
Before you get a dog, you can’t quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can’t imagine living any other way.
Caroline Knapp
The dog is the god of frolic.
Henry Ward Beecher
There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog.
Konrad Lorenz
Nowadays, we are increasingly concerned about the health of animals, so in Italy they have even invented mutual insurance for dogs and cats; although it is also true that at the same time they are trying to dismantle the one for humans.
Carl William Brown
Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.
Moby
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
When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
Eckhart Tolle
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain
Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.
Orhan Pamuk
It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.
John Grogan
If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.
Marjorie Garber
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
Mark Twain
Politicians are none of my business… I was struck by the fact that they live a dog’s life without the manners of a dog.
Rudyard Kipling
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Josh Billings
The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.
Konrad Lorenz
The more I see of men, the more I like dogs.
Clara Bow
The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.
Winston Churchill
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
James Thurber
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley
If a dog doesn’t put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn’t happen you are only keeping an animal.
Enid Bagnold
Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world’s worship.
Ambrose Bierce
The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic.
Henry Ward Beecher
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
Samuel Butler
If your dog doesn’t like someone, you probably shouldn’t either.
Caryl Churchill
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery, if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just Tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog.
John Cam Hobhouse
If you take a starving dog and fatten him up, he will not bite you. That is the main difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain
There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf.
Neil Gaiman
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
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
Lord Byron
Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.
Winston Churchill
Do you know what a dog and a short-sighted gynecologist have in common? It’s simple, they both always have wet noses.
Carl William Brown
The better I know men the more I admire dogs.
Anonymous
In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn’t merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
Edward Hoagland
You may drive a dog off the King’s armchair, and it will climb into the preacher’s pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.
Jean De La Bruyere
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
Fran Lebowitz
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln
Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.
Thomas Mann
Did you know that there are over 300 words for love in canine?
Gabriel Zevin
When you adopt a dog, you have a lot of very good days and one very bad day.
Bruce W. Cameron
Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.
Roger A. Caras
The dog is the god of frolic.
Henry Ward Beecher
No matter how you’re feeling, a little dog gonna love you.
Waka Flocka Flame
Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.
Dean Koontz
The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.
Robert Falcon Scott
Keep calm and pet a dog.
Anonymous
The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother– and they’ll settle for a puppy every time.
Winston Pendleton
If it wasn’t for puppies, some people would never go for a walk.
Anonymous
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
Anonymous
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
Will Rogers
The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn’t pose. He isn’t aware of the camera.
Patrick Demarchelier
What do dogs do on their day off? Can’t lie around – that’s their job.
George Carlin
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Ogden Nash
The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread.
Portuguese Proverb
I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
August J. Strindberg
His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes — cats — I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, mine eyes the tail that wagg’d contempt at Fate.
Sir William Watson
Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Ann Landers
Dog is God spelled backward.
Duane Chapman
I don’t understand people who don’t touch their pets. Their cat or dog is called a pet for a reason.
Jarod Kintz
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.
Mark Twain
Everybody should have a shelter dog. It’s good for the soul.
Paul Shaffer
Everything I know I learned from dogs.
Nora Roberts
Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles Shultz
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley
I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
John Steinbeck
You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.
W. Bruce Cameron
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Andy Rooney
Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door.
Charleton Jr. Ogburn
The fatter the flea the leaner the dog.
German Proverb
Who loves me loves my dog.
Latin Proverb
No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.
Bertrand Russell
If it wasn’t for dogs, some people would never go for a walk.
Anonymous
Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.
Franklin P. Jones
Jealousy is a barking dog that attracts thieves.
Karl Kraus
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
Let us confess to ourselves once and for all that since humanity introduced human rights, life has been a dog’s life.
Karl Kraus
No matter how great a person may do, the mere fact that he is a justice bureaucrat, with a police dog record, married to a law professional, daughter of a prestigious court servant, can be more than enough to detest him.
Carl William Brown
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
Harry S Truman
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
Christopher Morley
When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
Edward Abbey
I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross, and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.
Mark Haddon
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
Samuel Butler
Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.
John Grogan
You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you’re in faster than you can think of.
Jill Abramson
I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive.
Gilda Radner
When we adopt a dog or any pet, we know it is going to end with us having to say goodbye, but we still do it. And we do it for a very good reason: They bring so much joy and optimism and happiness. They attack every moment of every day with that attitude.
Bruce W. Cameron
If you want a friend, buy a dog.
Kevin O’Leary
Kevin O’LearyYou can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.
Captain Beefheart
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