Dog Breed Quotes

#1. He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over.

Mark Twain

#2. Great intellects are skeptical.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#4. Not-learning is the conscious decision not to learn something that you could learn.

Herbert Kohl

#5. Often we blame the breed, but in my opinion, it's not the breed, it's the owner. The owner has to be the pack leader and provide exercise, discipline, then affection. If you do that, you'll have a sweet, loving, and balanced dog - no matter what breed!

Cesar Millan

#6. If a homeless person has a funny sign, he hasn't been homeless for that long. A real homeless person is too hungry to be funny.

Chris Rock

#7. I always get that. Who are you? Here's who I am: I'm that dog that dropped off down at the humane society, and he has about every breed in it. Whatever the situation is, you try to bring that breed out that helps success.

Jim McElwain

#8. If your father says 'Bark like a dog,' I say 'What breed, Your Honor?

Scott Lynch

#9. Pilots enjoy the fun and challenge of handling the fancy machine.

Philip Greenspun

#10. Love is the feeling that emanates from the heart and extends through the blood to every cell of the body.

Alexander Lowen

#11. It's not the breed that makes a good companion. All dogs are great companions.

Cesar Millan

#12. She reeked of tenure

Kim Harrison

#13. if you get a certain breed of dog or buy a certain model of car, you suddenly start noticing the same dog or car everywhere you go.

John Medina

#14. A mutt is a dog. He is the stuff of dogginess, a creature allied to species, not breed, and untrammeled by human hand or preference.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

#15. I'm used to everything digital - the pictures, the avatars of the person, the profiles - so when I get to see someone in the flesh, it's really nice.

Michelle Phan

#16. I'm never without my dog. They would be in every corner of the house, and my wife will not allow me to have any more than that. But I have lots of dogs. I love the dogs. I breed them. I always have a puppy coming. And I show dogs. I show German shepherds.

George Foreman

#17. Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

Josh Billings

#18. Dog lovers are a good breed themselves.

Gladys Taber

#19. There were always dog walkers out & about. Sometimes they even stopped for a chat while the various mutts inspected each other. Rebus would be asked how old his dog was.
No idea.
The breed, then ?
Mongrel.
And all the while, he would be thinking about cigarettes.

Ian Rankin

#20. The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind,

Ingrid Newkirk

#21. There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

Sam Peckinpah

#22. Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding INbreeding ... No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.

Ezra Pound

#23. He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed
a kind of amiable absurdity.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#24. A Scotch half-breed took charge of him and his mates, and in company with a dozen other dog-teams he started back over the weary trail to Dawson. It was no light running now, nor record time, but heavy toil each day, with a heavy load behind; for this was the mail train,

Jack London

#25. In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time.

Kiran Desai

#26. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be the same breed ... Trouble doesn't come from Slopes, Kikes, Niggers, Spics or White Capitalist Pigs; it comes from the heart.

P. J. O'Rourke

#27. My dog was barking at everyone the other day. Still, what can you expect from a cross-breed.

Tommy Cooper

#28. She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.

Lloyd Alexander

#29. Aggression is not a breed thing. It's a state of mind, and it comes from how the human is with the dog. There are four levels of energy, regardless of the breed: low, medium, high, very high. The idea is to get a dog in your same level or lower than you.

Cesar Millan

#30. Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its breed, it seems to simultaneously relinquish its basic dogginess, until it is less a dog than a Pomeranian, Collie or Bloodhound.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

#31. I really do believe there are things passed down. Behaviour, not just DNA. Psychological make-up. You can see it in dogs. If you want to breed a calm dog, don't get two fighters.

Felicity Kendal

#32. Mrs Maclintick's dissatisfaction with life had probably reached so advanced a stage that she was unable to approach any new event amiably, even when proffered temporary alleviation of her own chronic spleen.

Anthony Powell

#33. The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.

Louis Leakey

#34. In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt the better; the more peculiar the circumstance of it coming into your life, the better.

Susan Orlean

#35. Fundamental research is needed to make progress, which you cannot do solely by copying others. If you only do applied research, you quickly lose creativity.

Francois Englert

#36. He's a rum dog. Don't he look fierce at any strange cove that laughs or sings when he's in company!' pursued the Dodger. 'Won't he growl at all, when he hears a fiddle playing! And don't he hate other dogs as ain't of his breed! Oh, no!'
'He's an out-and-out Christian,' said Charley.

Charles Dickens

#37. Let those who want to, arrive
Let those who want to, leave
Let those who want to, stay
With out harm to me or mine

Evan Esar