Top 51 An Old Dog Quotes
#1. A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
Josh Billings
#2. Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. There are three faithful friends in our life,an old wife,an old dog and ready money. A real friend is one who always warms you.
Love is blind. Friendship close it eyes.
Benjamin Franklin
#3. You can teach an old dog new tricksif the old dog wants to learn.
Tip O'Neill
#4. Old fools is the biggest fools there is. Can't learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is.
Mark Twain
#5. The greatest trick you can teach an old dog is how to learn new tricks.
J.S. Davey
#6. An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing.
Robert Breault
#7. You have probably heard the saying that you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Actually, there is another saying that is probably more accurate, but is not quite as well known: 'The quickest way to become an old dog is to quit learning new tricks.
Kenneth L. Higbee
#8. In fact, I can't think of much I'd like better than for him to step into the room right now, glasses fogged and smelling of damp wool, shaking the rain from his hair like an old dog and saying: 'Dickie, my boy, what you got for a thirsty old man to drink tonight?
Donna Tartt
#9. For me, the hardest part is taking lessons, and it's hard teaching an old dog new tricks, so part of my re-teaching myself is opening my mind too. I just want to get better and I think there's nothing wrong with wanting to get better.
Eric Hernandez
#10. You can't teach an old dog new dog new tricks. Now,you can give an old dog new toys. And we've got one here!
Si Robertson
#11. It is hard to teach an old dog to sit, as well as it is difficult to teach an old Laplandian rafter to swim.
Arto Paasilinna
#12. You can teach an old dog new tricks with the right kind of doggie treats.
Cynthia Lewis
#13. The old woman had an old dog, but he hardly counted any more. He was so old that he looked like a stuffed dog. Once I took him for a walk down to the store. It was just like taking a stuffed dog for a walk. I tied him up to a stuffed fire hydrant and he pissed on it, but it was only stuffed piss.
Richard Brautigan
#14. Death is like an old dog. He always knows when you are at his door.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#15. I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home.
Doc Watson
#16. A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
Erica Jong
#17. The way an old dog finds his way back over miles and miles to his home when somebody trues to shove him off on a farm someplace, that is how I find my way back to the library. It's my place, even more than my place is.
Chris Lynch
#18. Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
Erica Jong
#19. The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.
Jane Bowles
#20. Somewhere in [China's] soul lurks the cunning of an old dog, and it is a cunning that is strangely impressive. What a strange old soul! What a great old soul!
Lin Yutang
#23. I'm an old dog; I don't get too excited. I don't get caught up in all the mass hysteria.
Tim Howard
#24. You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don't want to see the dog doing them.
Bill Cosby
#25. The name is not important anymore - it's the tone that counts. I feel like an old dog I know. He will come to any name you call him, just so long as your demeanor carries with it the promise of affection and food
Robert Fulghum
#28. Hey, you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Now, you can give an old dog new toys! And, hey, we've got one here.
Si Robertson
#29. I have my own method [of acting]. I come from, I've interrogated people; I come from an undercover background, so it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks.
Mekhi Phifer
#30. There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin
#31. To have an old dog is to look into the eyes of the sweetest soul you know and see traces of the early light of the worst day of your life.
Meghan Daum
#32. I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab.
Sue Monk Kidd
#34. The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in the worst clothing - big heavy boots, baggy old sweaters, a hooded down parka from L.L. Bean that makes me look like an astronaut.
Caroline Knapp
#35. In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
Alfred Hitchcock
#36. My dog and 'right hand man,' who recently passed, taught me that guardian angels and cycles tend to come in every form in the universe. He was 8 years old and saw me through 8 independent projects, from an unsure place to a confident one. And now I'm ready to fly.
Mya
#37. Hodges remembers an old saying: even on the darkest day, the sun shines on some dog's ass.
Stephen King
#38. We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; It's clever, but is it art?
Rudyard Kipling
#39. An awful lot of people have childhood memories of holidays in Cornwall, and the holidays are old-fashioned and hugely successful. You stick a child and a dog on one of the beaches, and they just light up; they just love it.
Martin Clunes
#40. This boy needs a dog.
What makes you say that?
He needs someone or something to play with besides his phone and an old man and an old woman doddering around.
Kent Haruf
#41. Neighbours complaining about someone's dog making an awful racket. You could hardly blame the poor beast, its owner had died in her bed at least a fortnight before and there hadn't been much left of the old girl worth eating.
James Oswald
#42. Why, an old, mangy dog, warming himself at the hearth, and struggling to his feet with a little
whimper to welcome his master home - why, that dog has more memories than I! At least he
recognizes his master. His master. But what can I call mine?
Jean-Paul Sarte
#43. In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for the dog.
Doris Roberts
#44. Slowly the reality of the situation sank in. He got his ass kicked, learned nothing, and got saved by a dumb dog and an old lady. If he lived long enough to report to Nancy back in Adrianglia, he would have to gloss over this part.
Ilona Andrews
#45. He was acting like one of those crazy sons of bitches that you see on an episode of Hoarders. You know, the one who can't let go of an old sock because their dog gave birth on it."
--Rod
Ren Alexander
#46. When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.
Honore De Balzac
#47. We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the hearth, and grim portraits (some of them with grim legends, too) lower distrustfully from the oaken panels of the walls.
Charles Dickens
#48. His grandparents lived on an old farm. Like he should have considered that psycho teenage girls might be leaving tainted steaks for his dog to find. If you hurt him, I'll kill you.
Brigid Kemmerer
#49. He remembered how satisfied he had been as a youngster, and that with the little he had had - a dog, a stick, an aloneness he loved (which did not bleed him like his later loneliness), and he wished he could have lived longer in his boyhood. This was an old thought with him.
Bernard Malamud
#51. Tell me, if you can, of anything that's finer than an evening in camp with a rare old friend and a dog after one's heart.
Nash Buckingham
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