Dog Quotes

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Groucho Marx

Joseph Stalin

Arnold Toynbee

Oskar Schindler

John Selden

Charles Kingsley

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

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

The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.

These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.

Clifford D. Simak

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all the afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green;
And every goose a swan, lad,
And every lass a queen;
Then hey for boot and horse, lad,
And round the world away;
Young blood must have its course, lad,
And every dog his day.

Charles Kingsley

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

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

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

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

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

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

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.

Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs and patronizes human beings.

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

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog.

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

Robert Falcon Scott

If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

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

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

Robert Benchley

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

Basil of Caesarea

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

Norman R. Augustine

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.

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

Oskar Schindler