quotations about dogs
Dogs are minor angels, and I don't mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally, forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to do anything that makes us happy, etcetera. If we attributed some of those qualities to a person we would say they are special. If they had ALL of them, we would call them angelic. But because it's "only" a dog, we dismiss them as sweet or funny but little more. However when you think about it, what are the things that we most like in another human being? Many times those qualities are seen in our dogs every single day-- we're just so used to them that we pay no attention.
JONATHAN CARROLL
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The dog's agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with that, kiss you. There are no ulterior motives with a dog, no mind games, no second-guessing, no complicated negotiations or bargains, and no guilt trips or grudges if a request is denied. If you've spent a lifetime navigating the landscape of human relationships, characterized as it can be by covetness and ambivalence and indirection, this can be an enormous relief.
CAROLINE KNAPP
Pack of Two
A dog with a bone knows no friend.
DUTCH PROVERB
As the hound, so the pup.
IRISH PROVERB
Dogs are miracles with paws.
SUSAN KENNEDY
attributed, All Dogs are Angels at Heart
The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady's pet, is only a degenerate wolf.
LIN YUTANG
My Country and My People
Get a good dog. We have not picked up food in the kitchen in 15 years.
PAUL REISER
Good Housekeeping, June 2011
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
attributed, And I Quote
Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to 'em because they couldn't. I can't help being sorry for the dogs always, though perhaps there's no need. But they may well have more in them than they know how to make us understand, for we can't say half what we feel, with all our words.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
An old dog will learn no tricks.
ITALIAN PROVERB
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
ROGER A. CARAS
A Celebration of Dogs
Every boy who has a dog should also have a mother, so the dog can be fed regularly.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
BERN WILLIAMS
attributed, Words of Wellness
Did you hear about the dog that was so high-strung, he developed a nervous tick?
JAY LENO
Jay Leno's How to Be the Funniest Kid in the Whole Wide World
Beware of the dog that does not bark.
PORTUGUESE PROVERB
If a dog not naturally possessed of the devil will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you ought to go home and examine your conscience.
WOODROW WILSON
The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson
The dog is the only animal that leaves his own species to take up his abode with man.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
attributed, Day's Collacon
Folks are like dogs, and dogs are like folks, and a heap of 'em wants the palings between.
BILL ARP
"Bill Arp Philosophizes", Wallace's Monthly, May 1884
The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.
JAMES THURBER
introduction, The Fireside Book of Dog Stories
Dogs are one of the luxuries of civilization: in uncivilized life they are perhaps more one of the necessities.
H. W. SHAW
attributed, Day's Collacon