Dog Quotes

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Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

Call off your black dog, death,
it cannot bark me down:
I'll travel past these wounds
and speak another breath!

Muriel Rukeyser

Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget. Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border we cross.

Michael Ondaatje

I cannot imagine a cat in an Obedience ring, running around in the hot sun and doing things on command. For it would not make sense. Whereas a dog is tolerant of your not making sense and only wants to fix things so you are happy.

A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.

Carolyn Heilbrun

When I speak to the fox,
the sparrow, the lost dog, the shivering sea-goose,
know that really I am speaking to you whenever I say,
as I do all morning and afternoon: Come in, Come in.

Grandpa?" Declan raised his eyebrows. "We keep him in the shed out back," Jack said helpfully. "So he doesn't eat dog brains.

Screw reality. It don't feed my dog. It don't make my Porsche payments. It don't get me laid. Bullshit does that…and I like it that way. (Leo)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

Of Margaret Thatcher:

I cannot bring myself to vote for a woman who has been voice-trained to speak to me as though my dog has just died.

Keith Waterhouse

Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a year. Some people lift cars, too. Some people enter week-long sled-dog races, go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, fly planes through the Arc de Triomphe. Some people feel no pain in childbirth. Some people eat cars. There is no call to take human extremes as norms.

I am a Black revolutionary, and, by definition, that makes me a part of the Black Liberation Army. The pigs have used their newspapers and TVs to paint the Black Liberation Army as vicious, brutal, mad-dog criminals. They have called us gangsters and gun molls and have compared us to such characters as john dillinger and ma barker. It should be clear, it must be clear to anyone who can think, see, or hear, that we are the victims. The victims and not the criminals.

It came as a tremendous surprise, for in his student days Einstein had been a lazy dog... He never bothered about mathematics at all.

Hermann Minkowski

Dear God. Not only am I unemployed and homeless, but I also have a pregnant woman, bereaved dog, elephant, and eleven horses to take care of.

Out of this pack-persecution he learned two important things: how to take care of himself in a mass-fight against him; and how, on a single dog, to inflict the greatest amount of damage in the briefest space of time.

When you walk a dog on a short leash, she's close enough to bite you.

I know, as I've always known, that a gunner's paradiso lies within himself, involved in his attitude toward his dog, his reverence for his bird; the boundaries are mental, not physical.

George Bird Evans

Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.

Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.

The dog pranced delightedly around his feet as if he'd been gone to another planet instead of merely underneath a car.

Maggie Stiefvater

By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.

Barbara Holland

I go back to Bach as a sick dog instinctively grubs at the roots and herbs that are its right medicine.

You moralistic dog—admitting a hierarchy in which you are subordinate, purely that you may have subordinates; licking the boots of a superior, that you may have yours in turn licked by an underling.

They should call the good man an ass! They should call the bad ass a man! Ironically … to speak thus of you, so smart, friend of the old and the young, of the stream and the butterfly, of the sun and the dog, of the flower and the moon, patient and thoughtful, melancholic and lovable, the Marcus Aurelius of the fields…

Juan Ramón Jiménez