quotations about dogs
Weak dogs become bones for other, stronger dogs.
TAD WILLIAMS
Otherland: City of Golden Shadow
Some scientists believe dogs are like immature wolves. They think that genetic changes occurred that stopped their mental and physical maturation. This explains why dogs throughout their lives act like wolf youngsters, remaining trusting and playful.
D. CAROLINE COILE
How Smart Is Your Dog?
Some men are kinder to the occupants of their kennels than to their families; they will treat wife and children like dogs, but not dogs themselves so.
G. D. PRENTICE
attributed, Day's Collacon
A dog does not flee from a bone.
IRISH PROVERB
Dogs are social. Cats are sociopaths.
BRADLEY TREVOR GREIVE & RACHAEL HALE
Why Dogs are Better than Cats
A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own the rain, or the trees, or the laws which pertain to them.... A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing.
MARY OLIVER
"Her Grave,", New and Selected Poems
A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Dogs invite us not only to share their joy but also to live in the moment, where we are neither proceeding from nor moving toward, where the enchantment of the past and future cannot distract us, where a freedom from practical desire and a cessation of our usual ceaseless action allows us to recognize the truth of our existence, the reality of our world and purpose--if we dare.
DEAN KOONTZ
Brother Odd
Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.
FRENCH PROVERB
[Dogs] are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
EMILY DICKINSON
letter to T. W. Higginson, Apr. 26, 1862
Dogs want to be people. That's what their lives are about. They don't like being a dog. They're with people all the time, they want to graduate. My dog would sit there all day, he would watch me walk by, he would think to himself, "I could do that! He's not that good."
JERRY SEINFELD
stand-up routine
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
ROGER CARAS
attributed, All Dogs are Angels at Heart
Dogs are obsessed with being happy.
JAMES THURBER
attributed, Dogs Don't Bite When a Growl Will Do
Dogs are easy. If their tails are up and their eyes are soft, you're in.
PAULA MCLAIN
Like Family
An old dog does not bark in vain.
SPANISH PROVERB
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
Wallace's Monthly, May 1884
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
The Portable Athiest
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 like people: what they learn when they are young. whether of good or of evil, is not readily forgotten.
ROY NARINESINGH
Comprehension Skills for the Caribbean
Dogs are just wolves in sheep's clothing.
STANLEY COREN
Why Does My Dog Act That Way?