Dog Quotes

Dog

A selection of Dog Quotes and quotations.

Dogs have been man's best friend for thousands of years. They come in all shapes, sizes and breeds, from the very small chihuahua to the very large Irish Wolfhound.

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  1. A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. - Jack London
  2. A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. - Josh Billings
  3. Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar. - Steve Allen
  4. Every dog must have his day. - Jonathan Swift
  5. He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. - Unknown
  6. Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. - Alexander Pope
  7. I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. - Abraham Lincoln
  8. I have always thought of a dog lover as a dog that was in love with another dog. - James Thurber
  9. I once decided not to date a guy because he wasn't excited to meet my dog. I mean, this was like not wanting to meet my mother. - Bonnie Schacter, Founder of the Single Pet Owner's Society Singles Group
  10. Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
  11. My dog is usually pleased with what I do, because she is not infected with the concept of what I "should" be doing. - Lonzo Idolswine
  12. My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpets or ruin our lives. - Rita Rudner
  13. Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland. - Josh Billings
  14. No Matter how little money and how few possessions, you own, having a dog makes you rich. - Louis Sabin
  15. Old dogs, like old shoes, are comfortable. They might be a bit out of shape and a little worn around the edges, but they fit well. - Bonnie Wilcox 'Old Dogs, Old Friends'
  16. Recipe; a series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don't own, to make a dish the dog won't eat. - Unknown
  17. The dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup. - Robert Frost
  18. The dog is the god of frolic. - Henry Ward Beecher
  19. The more people I meet the more I like my dog. - Unknown
  20. The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs. - Nietzche
  21. Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species. - Melvin Maddocks
  22. What kind of life a dog... acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs. - E V Lucas
  23. When old dogs bark, it's time to watch out. - Unknown
  24. When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said, 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.' - Rudyard Kipling
  25. You do not own a dog, the dog owns you. - Unknown

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