My Dog Quotes

It's impossible to talk without labels. "Dog" is a label, but that doesn't mean it's meaningless, nor does it mean there's no difference in a Shih Tzu and a Doberman.

We Americans are a peculiar people. We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is.

I don't know how I'm gonna pick up a bat again. I just need to be away for a bit and play with my dogs.

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

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

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs.

If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog.

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery

In the hierarchy of the family, I'm just above the dog. But I like it that way.

I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog.

Explaining "why" to a dog is pretty useless. You have to engage their instincts in order to change their behavior.

Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.

Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include . . . well, EVERYTHING.

Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their companions in life. I wish I could believe that too.

I don't speak French, but I took it for five years growing up. So, if I were in a situation where I had to be, like, 'Excuse me, pineapple dog house red, what time is it library?' - no problem.

We have a tendency to assume people are a unity, and thus good people all good, etc. But the fact that Hitler was good to dogs and children isn't a paradox.

Dogs have no money. Isn't that amazing? They're broke their entire lives. But they get through. You know why dogs have no money? .. No Pockets.

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

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.

My dream pet? I like a couple of them, man: monkey, I love dogs. See, tigers, I don't know - I can't be playing with something like that. A monkey, I can handle it. A dog, yeah; I would get a monkey.

I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.

It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.

ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog.

Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.

We always had dogs,so I understood all the joy and the love animals are capable of giving. It's crazy to me that some people have dogs in thier homes, but they treat them more like furniture.

Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.

What dogs? These are my children, little people with fur who make my heart open a little wider.

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.

Once you've got a bull terrier, you never want another dog. I've got six bull terriers, a rottweiler and a bulldog.

I think fur looks better on an animal than on a human being. So I dress my dog in a mink teddy.

I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

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.

All dogs can be guide dogs of a sort, leading us to places we didn't even know we needed or wanted to go.

Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become as locked into yours as the quietest and kindest of marriages.

If I had my personal view, perhaps that might take hold. In fact, I don't want to see another dog or cat born.

Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.

The Führer is always quite cheerful, cheerful with all his heart, when he is having tea with his friends during the night, or when he is training his dogs!

When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger.

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.

Soon or late, every dog's master's memory becomes a graveyard; peopled by wistful little furry ghosts that creep back unbidden, at times, to a semblance of their olden lives.

I basically love anything that comes in a hot dog bun... except hot dogs.

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.

I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.

I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.

I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots!

It's a pitch you can extend your career with because it's less taxing on your body. It's like dog years, but in reverse. I feel like I'm 27 or 26 in knuckleball years!