Dogs - Quotes

[Dogs] are better than human beings because they know but do not tell. - Emily Dickinson

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion. - Washington Irving

A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own the rain, or the trees, or the laws which pertain to them … A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing. - Mary Oliver

A dog does not flee from a bone. - Irish Proverb

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. - Josh Billings

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones. - Arthur Conan Doyle

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. - Robert Benchley

A dog that will fetch a bone, will carry a bone. - R. Forby 

A dog wags its tail with its heart. - Unknown

A dog with a bone knows no friend. - Dutch Proverb

A hungry dog will eat dirty puddings. - Latin Proverb

A living dog is better than a dead lion. - Unknown

A man may smile and bid you hail, yet wish you to the devil; But when a good dog wags his tail, you know he’s on the level. - Unknown

A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty. - John Grogan

An old dog does not bark in vain. - Spanish Proverb

An old dog will learn no tricks. - Italian Proverb

Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog. - Franklin P. Jones

As the hound, so the pup. - Irish Proverb

Barking dogs seldom bite. - Unknown

Beware of the dog that does not bark. - Portuguese Proverb

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell. - Emily Dickinson

Dogs are easy. If their tails are up and their eyes are soft, you're in. - Paula McLain

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

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. - Roger Caras

Dogs are like a gift, a grace undeserved, that releases us into an economy of abundance, where the economic laws of scarcity and therefore competition no longer apply and where instead we feel ourselves the beneficiaries of a wealth that is actualized only as we give it away, and in giving we see something we could not see before. - Stephen H. Webb

Dogs are one of the luxuries of civilization: in uncivilized life they are perhaps more one of the necessities. - H. W. Shaw 

Dogs are obsessed with being happy. -  James Thurber

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. 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. - Milan Kundera

Dogs are voiceless ... a critical part of having dogs is emotional responsibility: learning how to understand them and, when necessary, to speak and act on their behalf. - Jon Katz

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more. - Agatha Christie

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen. - Orhan Pamuk

Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, and filling an emptiness we didn’t ever know we had. - Thom Jones

Dogs have this uncanny ability to bring out the funny side in all of us. - Kim Levin

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. -Sigmund Freud

Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. - Ann Landers

Dumb dogs are dangerous. - Unknown

Every dog is a lion at home. - Italian Proverb

Every dog must have his day. - Jonathan Swift

Happiness is a warm puppy. - Charles M. Schulz

He is very imprudent, a dog; he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the wrong, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him. - Jerome Klapka Jerome

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. - Alexander Pope

Hounds follow those who feed them. - Otto von Bismarck

I love a good dog – a good house dog that guards the premises and has an honest bark and loves my children. I love him because he loves me. - Bill Arp

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven – and very, very few persons. - James Thurber

If our dog is fat, you aren’t getting enough exercise. - Unknown

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers

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 a man. - Mark Twain

It's a dangerous dog that doesn’t bark. - Kobo Abe

Let sleeping dogs lie. - English Proverb

My Goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog already thinks I am. - Unknown

No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich. - Louis Sabin

One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at him. - Chinese Proverb

One need only look at the open, friendly face of any dog to find evidence of their affable nature; dogs are fundamentally social creatures. They see the big picture. They appreciate togetherness. They care about others. - Bradley Trevor Greive & Rachael Hale

One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you’re feeling blue is that he doesn’t try to find out why. - Unknown

One reason most dogs are much happier than most people is that dogs aren't affected by external circumstances the way we are. I notice that even when it's pouring rain outside, my dogs, Blue and Celeste, are still excited to go for a walk. As soon as I open the front door to look outside, they're beside me in a flash, standing expectantly, ready for an adventure. I usually wait for a break in the downpour, and then we all dash out together. The fact that the ground is soggy and there are mud puddles dotting the landscape means nothing to the dogs. While I'm gingerly picking my way around the wet spots, the dogs are joyfully splashing right through them. They aren't afraid to get their paws dirty. - Matt Weinstein & Luke Barber

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods. - Christopher Hitchens

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer. - Dean Koontz

Properly trained, a Man can be Dog’s best friend. - Corey Ford

Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job. - Franklin P. Jones

Some men are kinder to the occupants of their kennels than to their families; they will treat wife and children like dogs, but not dogs themselves so. - G. D. Prentice

Some scientists believe dogs are like immature wolves. They think that genetic changes occurred that stopped their mental and physical maturation. This explains why dogs throughout their lives act like wolf youngsters, remaining trusting and playful. - D. Caroline Coile

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. - Andy Rooney

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

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's. - Mark Twain

The dog is the only animal that leaves his own species to take up his abode with man. - Oliver Goldsmith

The dog that trots about finds a bone. - Golda Meir

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

The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you 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

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend. - Lord Bryon

The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. - Unknown

The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog. - M.K. Clinton

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. - Ben Williams

To forget or deny that dogs are animals is to fundamentally misunderstand them, and our relationships. It puts them in an unresolvable bind. We love them more and more, and increasingly bring them into our homes and emotional lives. Yet almost all their natural behaviours – running free, hunting prey, having sex, rolling in gross stuff, chewing whatever they come across, peeing wherever they feel like it – are either illegal or repellent. Dogs are the most loved and abused of creatures. Nearly seventy million of them are under the care of humans, but another ten million languish in shelters, most doomed. - Jon Katz

We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare, and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made. - M. Facklam

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, what counts is the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain

When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news. - Charles Anderson Dana

Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies. - Gene Hill

You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'Wow, you're right! I never would've thought of that!' - Dave Barry