Top 100 A Dog Is Quotes
#1. I think that's the great thing about being with, having a dog, is it kind of forces you to be in the present because that's definitely where they're spending their time.
Jennifer Aniston
#2. A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.
Mary Oliver
#3. Sensitivity isn't being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom.
Jeff Buckley
#4. A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch.
Robert Breault
#5. I think the unconditional love you get from an animal, especially a dog, is better than anything else.
Miranda Lambert
#7. When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
Ingrid Newkirk
#8. 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.
Mark Doty
#9. A dog is not intelligent. Never trust an animal that's surprised by it's own farts
Frank Skinner
#10. To me dogs are not the students, not the ones that need training. To me a dog is a teacher of life, who teaches us the principles of the most important moral values; honesty, integrity, loyalty, trust, respect and love.
Cesar Millan
#11. Being a hero to someone, even if it is a dog, is a feeling like no other. Though it can be frustrating, it can be the most rewarding thing to give someone a second chance at a happy life.
Elizabeth Parker
#12. A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
Josh Billings
#14. There are those among us who are more dog people than others - and a dog person without a dog is missing something. I
Rick Bass
#15. A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology.
Carrie Newcomer
#18. You can also hurt a dog if it's insecure, if a dog is nervous and then you try to pet him, you can make him more nervous. It's not just the aggressive dogs that you can get hurt. It's also the dogs that you can actually hurt. It works both ways.
Cesar Millan
#19. A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
Gautama Buddha
#20. Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.
Ian McKellen
#21. I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.
Mark Haddon
#23. Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.
Charlton Ogburn
#24. The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
Walter Scott
#25. A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Ogden Nash
#26. A dog is one of the few remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.
Jack Canfield
#27. A dog is like a person - he needs a job and a family to be what he's meant to be.
Andrew Vachss
#28. Did you ever stop to think that a dog is the only animal that doesn't have to work for a living? A hen has to lay eggs, a cow has to give milk, and a canary has to sing. But a dog makes his living by giving you nothing but love.
Dale Carnegie
#29. When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
Ingrid Newkirk
#31. The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.
Konrad Lorenz
#33. A dog is a great thing for a kid to have. It's like a bicycle but with emotions.
Trevor Noah
#34. One of the joys of being a dog is that they have no concept of the word "future." Everything is right now, and if right now happens to be a warm floor and a full stomach, then life is good.
Jonathan Carroll
#35. A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.
John Grogan
#36. I cannot imagine a cat in an Obedience ring, running around in the hot sun and doing things on command. For it would not make sense. Whereas a dog is tolerant of your not making sense and only wants to fix things so you are happy.
Gladys Taber
#37. To most Americans, a dog is a potential mate. To some Chinese, a dog is potential meat.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#38. Results for Getting a dog is like getting married. It teaches you to be less self-centered, to accept sudden, surprising outbursts of affection, and not to be upset by a few scratches on your car.
Will Stanton
#39. You never realize a dog is a man's best friend until you start betting on horses.
Karel Capek
#40. A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
Agnes Repplier
#41. A dog is the best philosopher because he knows what you want and gives you that with kindness and love.
Debasish Mridha
#42. A dog is only a small piece of your busy life whereas in tier lives you are much more.
Saro Boghozian
#43. To be without a dog is worse than being without a song.
Henry Hough
#44. Owning a dog is slightly less expensive than being addicted to crack.
Jen Lancaster
#45. The ideal age for a boy to own a dog is between forty-five and fifty.
Robert Benchley
#46. A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.
Carolyn Heilbrun
#47. Samuel Butler (1835-1902) said, "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." 7
Adele Von Rust McCormick
#48. When a dog is balanced, you are going to enjoy a true friend.
Cesar Millan
#49. [A dog is] a bundle of pure love, gift-wrapped in fur.
Andrea Lochen
#51. Living with a dog is easy- like living with an idealist.
H.L. Mencken
#52. For people with patience, time with a dog is a little slice of heaven.
J.J. Brown
#53. Ginger is not distracted by the way things could be, used to be, or should be. She perceives only what is. Our reliance on the intuition of a dog is often a way to find permission to have an opinion we might otherwise be forced to call (God forbid) unsubstantiated.
Gavin De Becker
#54. When a dog is really comfortable, they give off a certain scent and you can smell it on their paws.
Booboo Stewart
#55. He (Darryl Strawberry) is not a dog; a dog is loyal and runs after balls.
Tommy Lasorda
#56. Understand - motherhood, for a dog, is not an emotional experience, it is an instinctual experience.
Anonymous
#57. I discovered when we suffer, we suffer as equals, and in their capacity to suffer, a dog, is a pig, is a bear, is a boy
Philip Wollen
#58. Owning a dog is like having a demanding manner-less friend who never bathes themselves but which somehow ends up spending every single night on your couch.
Matte Resist
#60. A study conducted by the State University of New York at Buffalo Medical School suggested that in times of stress a dog is likely to be more help in calming you down than a spouse or partner. Most dog owners can guess the reason why: dogs never judge us and never compete with us.
Marjorie Garber
#61. New Rule: A dog is the only animal that can get you laid. No offense, parrot guy, but it's not gonna happen. When women see you, they're not thinking, "I bet that guy is interesting," they're thinking, "That bird better not shit on my dress.
Bill Maher
#62. The son of a human is human, just as the son of a dog is a dog and the son of a cat is a cat. And so what is the son of God?
Bart D. Ehrman
#63. Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals.
Ingrid Newkirk
#65. Walking a dog is a lesson in the simplicities of happiness, but you need to throw sticks to get maximum benefit from the lesson.
Steve Fowler
#66. The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this Earth can ever be.
Konrad Lorenz
#67. If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.
Marjorie Garber
#68. Living with a dog is one way to retain something of a child's spirit.
Michael Rosen
#69. A dog is not a thing. A thing is replaceable. A dog is not. A thing is disposable. A dog is not. A thing doesn't have a heart. A dog's heart is bigger than any "thing" you can ever own.
Elizabeth Parker
#70. The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.
Michel Houellebecq
#71. A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.
H.P. Lovecraft
#73. When a dog is drowning, everyone offers him a drink.
George Herbert
#74. Auriele stepped in front of Henry when he would have gone to her. Her lips peeled back. "Hijo de perra!" she said, her voice alive with anger.
Henry flushed, so the insult hit home. Calling someone a son of a dog is a good insult among werewolves.
"Hijo de Chihuahua," said Mary Jo.
Patricia Briggs
#75. A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him.
William Kunstler
#76. The greatest 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
#77. Andrea: " ... I think a dog is a great idea. I just never pictured you with a mutant poodle."
Kate: "He isn't a poodle. He's a Doberman mix."
Andrea: "Aha. Keep telling yourself that.
Ilona Andrews
#78. A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have.
Cesar Millan
#79. The friendship of a dog is precious. It becomes even more so when one is so far removed from home ... I have a Scottie. In him I find consolation and diversion ... he is the "one person" to whom I can talk without the conversation coming back to war.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#81. In their capacity to feel pain and fear, a pig is a dog is a bear is a boy.
Philip Wollen
#82. This new thinking leads away from the pack, but a dog is no dog if he does not belong.
Andre Alexis
#83. I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel; that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject.
Samuel Johnson
#84. A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.
John Holmes
#85. There's a vulnerability about Rose, even a sweetness in her eyes, but there's no mistaking her priorities. Smart, tough, determined, she is essential, but rarely the dog that people melt over or want to take home. Yet she's a great dog.
Jon Katz
#86. What I'm hoping for is something that goes much, much further than the conservative enablers of dog-eat-dog capitalism putting on a puppet show of cleaning house. But that's probably not going to happen just yet ...
Charles Stross
#87. Take personal responsibility. A lot of people go, 'Well, I'll get a dog because I have a kid and a kid needs a dog.' And it doesn't work out for that dog and the dog is on the street.
Betty White
#89. There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog
Konrad Lorenz
#90. Someone has said, 'To be a saint is to have loved many things' - many things
the tree, the dog, the sky, the flowers, even the color of someone's clothing.
You see, when you love, you love, and love extends to everything all the time and everywhere.
Richard Rohr
#91. Rebel Number Four" is waiting patiently by the door. I named him "Rebel Number Four," for he is the fourth of his kind I have given the name "Rebel." To many he may be just a hound dog, but to me he is a champion and a friend to the end.
Nancy B. Brewer
#92. Women can learn a lot about a guy because women, for the most part, want a guy to care about their feelings, to be a guy that is responsible. Women want to attract you, but they want you to know more how they feel. When a guy has a great relationship with a dog, it really says a lot about him.
Cesar Millan
#93. There is a huge difference between a dog that is going to eat you in your mind and an actual dog that's going to eat you.
Jim Carrey
#94. Ghost Dog: In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side.
Jim Jarmusch
#95. Say what you will about the south, but in North Carolina a hot dog is free to swing anyway it wishes.
David Sedaris
#96. My sex life is terrible; my wife put a mirror over the dog's bed. Actually she did put a mirror over our bed. She says she likes to watch herself laugh.
Rodney Dangerfield
#97. Idea of the generations continuing is really important. And that's interesting to me. I write about families; I'm interested in families. Even though I think a family can be just two people or two people and a dog, I really wanted children for that reason.
Jennifer Gilmore
#98. As every advance of Power is useful for war, so war is useful for the advance of power; war is like a sheep-dog harrying the laggard Powers to catch up their smarter fellows in the totalitarian race.
Bertrand De Jouvenel
#99. 131/ Writing a novel is like having a baby. I know because I've had both, and the experiences were hellish. By comparison, the torture of the damned - plunged into excrement, boiled in blood, beheaded, set upon by harpies - are like love nips from your yippy little dog.
Kim Addonizio
#100. To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.
William Lyon Phelps
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