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I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no moral restraint, and they do not for all their marvelous instincts appear to know about death. Being such wonderfully uncomplicated beings, they need us to do their worrying.
Sep 24, 2025
Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane.
The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.
I named my dog Stay, so I can say, 'Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!
A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.
Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.
The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.
No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.
There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.
No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich.
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.
People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
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.
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.