quotations about dogs
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
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
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
Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.
GENE HILL
A Hunter's Fireside Guide: Tales of Dogs
Dogs are miracles with paws.
SUSAN KENNEDY
attributed, All Dogs are Angels at Heart
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
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
attributed, And I Quote
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 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
An old dog will learn no tricks.
ITALIAN PROVERB
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
BERN WILLIAMS
attributed, Words of Wellness
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 is the only animal that leaves his own species to take up his abode with man.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
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
Dogs are one of the luxuries of civilization: in uncivilized life they are perhaps more one of the necessities.
H. W. SHAW
attributed, Day's Collacon
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