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There is no good flock without a good shepherd, and no good shepherd without a good dog.

A stray dog, I might understand," she said. "But this? You are too softhearted." No, Mabry," Ravus said. "I am not." He looked in Val's direction. "I think she wants to die." Maybe you can help her after all," Mabry said. "You're good at helping people die.

There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.

A mastiff dog
May love a puppy cur for no more reason
Than that the twain have been tied up together.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may 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 (novelist)

After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.

Robert McCammon

The French are masters of 'the dog ate my homework' school of diplomatic relations.

A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to see it done at all.

There's only so many times you can kick a dog before it turns viscous. (Julian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black people, or face the wrath of the armed people.

Who thinks a dog is impure or obscene because its body is not covered with suffocating and annoying clothes? What would you think of the meanness of a man who would put a skirt upon his, horse and compel it to walk or run with such a thing impeding its limbs? Why, the "Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals" would arrest him, take the beast from him, and he would be sent to a lunatic asylum for treatment on the score of an impure mind. And yet, gentlemen, you expect your wives, the creatures you say you respect and love, to wear the longest skirts and the highest necked clothing, in order to conceal the obscene human body. There is no society for the prevention of cruelty to women.

Voltairine de Cleyre

I haven't fought with anyone else in over two thousand years. (Kyrian) Well, you're never too old to learn. (Amanda) You can't teach an old dog new tricks. (Kyrian) There's no time like the present. (Amanda) Time is of the essence. (Kyrian) God helps those who help themselves. (Amanda) You're not going to let me win this, are you? (Kyrian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over, it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost.

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in chaos — as it does for a dog.

Elizabeth Bowen

Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn't want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, good book, as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odourless.

In general Wexford disliked the clergy. To him the dog collar was like a slipped halo, indicating a false saintliness, probably hypocrisy and massive self-regard. As he saw it vicars were not vicarious enough. Most of them expected you to worship God in them.

You have no control over your cat! You can't say to your cat, "Cat, heel! Stay! Wait! Lie down! Roll over!" 'Cause the cat's just gonna be sitting there going, "Interesting words … have you finished?" While you're shouting all this to your cat, your dog's next to you, going … [mimes obeying all commands] "What the hell are you doing? I'm talking to the cat!" "Oh, I'm sorry!"

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

George Jean Nathan

Hoyt began moving his lips as if he were trying to suck the ice cream off the top of a cone without using his teeth. She tried to make her lips move in sync with his. The next thing she knew, Hoyt had put his hand sort of under her thigh and hoisted her leg up over his thigh. What was she to do? Was this the point she should say, Stop! ? No, she shouldn't put it that way. It would be much cooler to say, No, Hoyt, in an even voice, the way you would talk to a dog that insists on begging at the table.

With women, it's dog years when you are 40. It's as if you are a thousand years old. It's over.

The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.

I met Elvis in your woods one night, Terry said. One of the EMTs had given him a shot, and I thought it was beginning to work. I knew I was nuts then. He was telling me how much he liked cats. I told him I was a dog person, myself.

Charlaine Harris