quotations about dogs
And so of dogs 't were wrong to dogmatize
Without discrimination or degree;
For one may see, with half a pair of eyes,
That they have characters as well as we.
JOHN GODFREY SAXE
"Tale of a Dog"
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
ROBERT BENCHLEY
Chips Off the Old Benchley
The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD
"More Boys I Meet"
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
ANDY ROONEY
attributed, Planet Dog: A Doglopedia
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
stand-up routine
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
MARK TWAIN
letter to W. D. Howells, Apr. 2-13, 1899
The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
To forget or deny that dogs are animals is to fundamentally misunderstand them, and our relationships. It puts them in an unresolvable bind. We love them more and more, and increasingly bring them into our homes and emotional lives. Yet almost all their natural behaviors--running free, hunting prey, having sex, rolling in gross stuff, chewing whatever they come across, peeing wherever they feel like it--are either illegal or repellent. Dogs are the most loved and abused of creatures. Nearly seventy million of them are under the care of humans, but another ten million languish in shelters, most doomed.
JON KATZ
Katz on Dogs
The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you 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
Notebooks
It's a dangerous dog that doesn't bark.
KOBO ABE
The Woman in the Dunes
There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf.
NEIL GAIMAN
Good Omens
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
MARK TWAIN
Complete Tom Sawyer
Dogs are like their owners. If you get an uptight owner, you have an uptight dog. If you have an assertive owner, half drunk who thinks he owns the whole track, the dog will be the same. If you see that kind of person, he doesn't own a miniature Poodle.
JIM HEATH
Your Dog is Watching You
I love a good dog -- a good house dog that guards the premises and has an honest bark and loves my children. I love him because he loves me.
BILL ARP
"Bill Arp Philosophizes", Wallace's Monthly, May 1884
Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.
DEAN KOONTZ
False Memory
Happiness is a warm puppy.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Happiness Is a Warm Puppy
We did long for the pitter-patter of little feet, so we decided to buy a dog. Cheaper, and ... get more feet.
RITA RUDNER
"Real Estate", Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
One need only look at the open, friendly face of any dog to find evidence of their affable nature; dogs are fundamentally social creatures. They see the big picture. They appreciate togetherness. They care about others.
BRADLEY TREVOR GREIVE & RACHAEL HALE
Why Dogs are Better than Cats
Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.
ORHAN PAMUK
My Name is Red
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
attributed, Dog Blessings