Dog Quotations

"The more I know about men, the more I like dogs." - Gloria Allred, feminist attorney

"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 humour. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal." - Enid Bagnold (1889-1981) British novelist, playwright

"So many get reformed through religion. I got reformed through dogs." - Lina Basquette (1907-1994) silent-film star and professional dog breeder

"Trained or not, he'll always be his own dog to a degree." - Carol Lea Benjamin

"Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more." - Agatha Christie (1891-1976) British mysteries writer

"They are better than human beings because they know but do not tell." - Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) U.S. poet

"Agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." - George Eliot (1819-1880) English novelist

"When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget they're not people." - Julia Glass

"Say something idiotic and nobody but a dog politely wags his tail." - Virginia Graham (b. 1912) U.S. author, commentator.

"If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater . . . suggest that he wear a tail." - Fran Lebowitz (b. 1951) U.S. journalist

"I'm a lean dog, a keen dog, a wild dog, and lone;
I'm a rough dog, a tough dog, hunting on my own;
I'm a bad dog, a mad dog, teasing silly sheep;
I love to sit and bay the moon to keep fat souls from sleep." - Irene MacLeod

"Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us." - Iris Murdoch (b. 1919) British novelist, philosopher

"Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw - I don't say she will, but she can." - Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) U.S. humorous writer

"It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do." - Eleanor H. Potter

"From the dog's point of view, his master is an enlongated and abnormally cunning dog." - Mabel Louise Robinson

"Don't make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans, or they'll treat you like dogs." - Martha Scott (b.1914) U.S. actress

"Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses." - Elizabeth Taylor (b. 1932) British-born American actress

"A heart beat, at my feet." - Edith Wharton (1862-1937) U.S. author

"The dog has an enviable mind; it remembers the nice things in life and quickly blots out the nasty." - Barbara Woodhouse (1910-1988) Irish author and dog trainer

"I've caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs." - Barbara Woodhouse (1910-1988) Irish author and dog trainer

"Dogs understand your moods and your thoughts, and if you are thinking unpleasant things about your dog, he will pick it up and be downhearted." - Barbara Woodhouse (1910-1988) Irish author and dog trainer

"To err is human - to forgive, canine." - Anonymous

"The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue." - Anonymous

"A man may smile and bid you hail Yet wish you to the devil;
But when a good dog wags his tail, You know he's on the level." - Anonymous

"To a dog, the whole world is a smell." - Anonymous

"All of the good things that have come to me have come through my dog." - A dog owner overheard in New York's Central Park

"No cold philosophy, no cynic sneer, Checks the unhidden and honest tear, What little difference, and how short the span,
Betwixt thy instinct and the mind of man." - Inscription on a dog's gravestone

"MAJOR Born a dog Died a gentleman." - Epitaph on a dog's grave in Maryland

"The best thing about a man is his dog."- French Proverb

"If a dog's prayers were answered, bones would rain from the sky." - Proverb

"The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic." - Henry Ward Beecher (1813-87) U.S. clergyman, editor, writer

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down." - Robert Benchley (1889-1945) U.S. humorous writer

"Love me, love my dog." - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)

"Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time." - Henry Beston

"Dog: A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) U.S. author

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself." - Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist

"Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail." - Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist

"Every dog is a lion at home." - H.G. Bohn

"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 (1835-1902) English author

"Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves. - Clarence Day (1874-1935) U.S. essayist

"In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog." - Edward Hoagland (b. 1932) U.S. novelist, essayist

"A dog is not 'almost human' and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such. The dog can do many things which man cannot do, never could do and never will do." - John Holmes

"Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job." - Franklin P. Jones

"Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog." - Franklin P. Jones

"A good dog deserves a good bone." - Ben Jonson (1572-1637) English dramatist and poet

"All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog." - Franz Kafka (1883-1924) German novelist, short-story writer

"Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching." - Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) English author

"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace." - Milan Kundera (b. 1929) Czech author, critic

"There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog." - Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989) Austrian zoologist and ethologist

"The dog is the only living being that has found and recognizes an indubitable, tangible and definite god. He knows to whom above him to give himself. He has not to seek for a superior and infinite power." - Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) Belgian author

"Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote." - Thomas Mann (1875-1955) German writer

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx (1895-1977) U.S. comic actor

"I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness." - Thomas McGuane (b. 1939) U.S. novelist

"Living with a dog is easy - like living with an idealist." - H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) U.S. journalist

"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as a dog does." - Christopher Morley (1890-1957) U.S. novelist, journalist, poet

"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of." - Ogden Nash (1902-71) American writer, poet

"A dog's best friend is his illiteracy." - Ogden Nash (1902-71) American writer, poet

"He cannot be a gentleman which loveth not a dog." - John Northbrooke

"A dog has the soul of a philosopher." - Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.) Greek philosopher

"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends." - Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English satirical poet

"I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons." - Will Rogers (1879-1935) U.S. humorist

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person." - Andy Rooney (b. 1919) U.S. television personality

"Happiness is a warm puppy." - Charles M. Schulz (b. 1920) U.S. cartoonist

"Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man." - Andrés Segovia (1893-1987) Spanish guitarist

"Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative." - Mordecai Siegal

"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that dogs think humans are nuts." - John Steinbeck (1902-68) U.S. author

"The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his." - James Thurber (1894-1961) U.S. humorist, illustrator

"Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads." - Harry S Truman (1884-1972) 33rd president of the U.S.

"Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." - Mark Twain (1835-1910) U.S. humorist and author

"When all other friends desert, he remains." - George G. Vest

"It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts hamming it up." - P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) British novelist

"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face." - Ben Williams

"If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience." - Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) 28th president of the U.S.

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