My Dog Quotes

I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash. It was like elephants holding tails. Imagine me undressing a nun, even second hand.

I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me home - a service he thought up himself. A boy doesn't forget that sort of association.

I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane. Even if the dogs are small.

Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog.

If't were not for my cat and dog, I think I could not live.

Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.

It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

The dog's life is a good life, for a dog.

Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat though—a cat will take your number and get back to you. Maybe. If he’s in a good mood.

I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.

When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in chaos - as it does for a dog.

Do you think 'Duke' is a good name?' she asked. His face blanked for a second before it cleared. He glanced at the dog in consideration. 'I don't think so. He would outrank me.

I walk every day with my dogs and force myself to run a bit but I hate it.

What do dogs want? They want each other. Human beings are merely a cynomorphic substitute.

I get home at the end of the day and I don't want to talk. All I want to do is lay on the floor and pet my dogs and my cats.

THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled yard with no hope of escape or affection, some learn to bite.

Dogs don't mind being photographed in compromising situations.

Dogs may be divided into two classes: those who are merely afraid of cattle and those who can't abide them.

Top dog, top hat, move that muscle, move that fat.

I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs.... Perhaps I am an exception.

I have a dog as well, and I'm not a vegan or anything. But I needlepoint and I have a cat, so it's not boding well.

I get a lot of sleep on the bus. I bring two dogs with me, who keep me grounded. I guess that's just in my soul. It's good to know that you're good at something.

My wife, Tania, is very big on dogs, so I'm always paying out to animal charities.

I did have a dog for a few years when I was little, but then just really had cats until I was about 21.

It is fun to think about your pet moonlighting as a water delivery man, or a bouncer at a bar. Thinking about your dog out in the world, instead of laying on your bed when you leave, is really fun.

Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.

Early in my life I had made a pact with myself. I would never eat anything that moved when I cooked it, excited the dog, or inflated upon impact with my teeth.

You don't lose your temper and throw the cat out the door. You don't lose your temper and throw a dish at the dog and make him thing he's going to die.

You may help a lame dog over a stile but he is still a lame dog on the other side.

I can kill a dog in six ways. Five of them are throwing missiles at it.

She looked at me and laughed pointlessly. Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy, and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there.

I had a guitar leaning against the wall and I'd squint at it. It was almost like a dog that had been kicked - I didn't think I had anything to offer it.

I remember my father explaining, "A capitalist system is a dog-eat-dog system."

Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs.

Dogs aren't like family members, they are family members.

He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my right eye. He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my other eye.

Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.

You can love infinity, eternity, Scotty dogs, sports, work, play, the feelings of being alive, the earth, the sky, the fire, the wind ... there's a lot you can love.

I have several Scottish Terriers. I find them to be the most wonderful dogs.

It is good to take a weekend and just you, or you and your dog, head out into the wilderness. Walk by yourself. Be by yourself. It will help you in your search for stillness and perfection.

If you feel the purpose of life is struggle, Darwinian fitness, dog eat dog, then you will be eaten by a dog, or you will eat dog. You become what you focus on.

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".

Necessity has the face of a dog.

If you Google the word "fluffy," I'm the first thing that pops up. It's me, dogs and rabbits.

Really, Channing,” remonstrated Alexia, “did you have to eat the man’s dog? I am convinced you will experience terrible indigestion.

Dogs don't lie and why should I? Strangers come they growl and bark, they know their loved ones in the dark, Now let me, by night or day, Be just as full of truth as they.