Dog Quotes

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

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!"

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

Go figure that. Joseph Morelli with a house, a dog, a steady job, and an SUV. And on odd days of the month he woke up wanting to marry me. It turns out want to marry him on even days of the month, so to date we've been spared commitment.

Janet Evanovich

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

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

George Jean Nathan

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

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.

He is about as big as Clive Churchill was when he played and he owns an ugly dog.

All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand—any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.

I wish that I could save myself constant repetition by printing across the dog's-ear place of these pages the warning, Never judge a critic by your agreement with his likes and dislikes.

George Saintsbury

A traveller must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.

When a dog is drowning, everyone offers him drink.

That's the only dog I know who can smell someone just thinking about food.

Charles M. Schulz

To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation, a mutual agreement though the human being holds most of the cards.

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings, is only because we ourselves are greater miracles, and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space. Wonder interlocks with wonder; and then the confounding feeling comes. No cause have we to fancy, that a horse, a dog, a fowl, ever stand transfixed beneath yon skyey load of majesty. But our soul's arches underfit into its; and so, prevent the upper arch from falling on us with unsustainable inscrutableness.

Herman Melville

I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog.

Who's this—alone with stone and sky? It's only my old dog and I— It's only him; it's only me; Alone with stone and grass and tree. What share we most—we two together? Smells, and awareness of the weather. What is it makes us more than dust? My trust in him; in me his trust.

Siegfried Sassoon

We have thought you were too rule-abiding to be a good ruler—a paradox, you see—but perhaps we were wrong.
But you're the Witness for the Judiciate! Maia protested, which made everyone laugh.
"We said rule, not law, Pashavar said tartly. There is a difference, Serenity. An emperor who breaks laws is a mad dog and a danger, but an emperor who will never break a rule is nearly as bad, for he will never be able to recognize when a law must be changed.

Wake, soldier, wake, thy war-horse waits
To bear thee to the battle back;
Thou slumberest at a foeman's gates,—
Thy dog would break thy bivouac;
Thy plume is trailing in the dust
And thy red falchion gathering rust.

Thomas Kibble Hervey

The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.

Maurice Maeterlinck