Dog Quotes

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Groucho Marx

Rainer Maria Rilke

Joseph Stalin

Robert Benchley

Jeremy Bentham

George Borrow

Anne Brontë

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

Gratitude... is a sickness suffered by dogs.

He [Cézanne] reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

Rainer Maria Rilke

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

Barbara Kingsolver

To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days

Edward Hoagland

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods
Live a longer life than men do,
Men a longer life than dogs do,
Dogs a longer life than love does.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

Edward Hoagland

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Christopher Morley

He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

Robert Benchley

Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.

Robert Falcon Scott

How noble and ennobling!—but within
How mean, how poor, how pitiful, how mix'd
With base alloy; how Disappointment tracks
The steps of Hope; how Envy dogs success;
How every victor's crown is lined with thorns,
And worn mid scoffs!

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time.

There was no choice. If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?

Oskar Schindler

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.

A full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day, or a week, or even a month old. But suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

Law Number VI: A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

Norman R. Augustine

Just remember this one thing: Life is like a dog-sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

I am in love with my dog. I'm 38 and I'm single and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in different ways, and this way happens to be mine.

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

Basil of Caesarea