Top 100 Dog Quotes
#1. Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Samuel Johnson
#2. Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.
Steve Allen
#3. If people can be convinced to pick up dog sh*t, who knows what social change is possible?
Franke James
#4. One of the laws of the professional jungle is that every dog has their day. Everyone gets a shot at the top and at some point someone else gets their turn.
Carla Harris
#5. To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate.
Barbara Dana
#6. I make a dog-friendly version of almost everything that we make for dinner.
Rachael Ray
#8. A successful novel should interrupt the reader's life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.
Stephen King
#9. Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting.
Terry Pratchett
#10. In training a dog you must reward only those behaviors you desire the dog to repeat endlessly.
Alexandra Horowitz
#11. 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
#12. It's the most prestigious dog show in the country. We love dogs, and we're having a blast out here.
Melissa Rivers
#13. I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.
Bill Murray
#14. My cats inspire me daily. They inspire me to get a dog!
Greg Curtis
#15. shape about the size of a large dog hovering a few yards over his head.
Christie Golden
#16. I am an on-and-off vegetarian. Sometimes on, mostly off. I think it is better to be a vegetarian but occasionally, the call of the hot dog overpowers my ethics.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#17. It is very easy to forget how much of a pain training is when you have a dog for so long, but trust me, it's not as easy and quick as we all hope.
Jenna Morasca
#18. So, what do they pay you for ... exactly?"
Slapped around. Tied up. Beaten. Given orders, made to do things."
"What kind of things?"
"You know."
No, I can't even begin to imagine."
"Lick my boots, crawl on floor, eat like dog."
"Nothing useful, then, like hoovering?
Kate Atkinson
#19. My friend died. (Astrid) Died how? (Zarek) Mmm, he had parvo. (Astrid) Isn't that a dog's disease? (Zarek) Yes. It was tragic. (Astrid) Hey! I resent that. (Sasha) Behave or I will give you parvo. (Astrid)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#20. Was that the point about scattering ashes: that in the end they looked the same? Not just the snout and the tail, but a dog's ashes and a man's ashes. All reducible, with the addition of a little flame, to this mottled dust?
Clive Barker
#21. All I had ever wanted was a dog who would sleep in my lap while I read and lick my neck and bring me the ball to throw eighty-seven times in a row. I thought a dog would be the key to perfect happiness. And I was right. We are perfectly happy. (
Ann Patchett
#22. To a dog, motoring isn't just a way of getting from here to there, it's also a thrill and an adventure. The mere jingle of car keys is enough to send most any dog into a whimpering, tail-wagging frenzy.
Jon Winokur
#23. For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Anonymous
#24. Why did Mitt Romney strap his dog to the roof of his car? Could it be because his station wagon was full of wives?
Bill Maher
#25. Jude wondered if the chip was smart enough to tell the difference between a dog and a naked psychotic scrambling around on all fours with a knife in his teeth.
Joe Hill
#27. Nor the dog she carries in her arms. Your power over our band is now ended, and you will never see us again. Then all the Winged Monkeys, with much laughing and chattering and noise,
L. Frank Baum
#28. William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who does it behind the Dog and Crumpet?
Marc Norman
#29. 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
#30. Failing tastes of bile and dog vomit. Shame on any man who gets used to that taste.
Dan Simmons
#31. Does every pickup in Idaho come complete with a dog in the back?
Stan Purdum
#32. I have a little dog who likes to nap with me.
He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck.
He is sweeter than soap.
He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace,
which can't even bark ...
Mary Oliver
#33. Oh, sorry, I'm thinking about Cousin Mary. Talk about a dog. That girl was so ugly we had to put a bag over her head when we went to town so we wouldn't get arrested for public indecency.
Nick Wilgus
#34. The dog is man's best friend. He has a tail on one end. Up in front he has teeth. And four legs underneath.
Ogden Nash
#35. I like your orange dog." Nadia taps her finger near the fox I'm trying to draw.
I lean against my hand to hide my smile. "Thanks.
Emery Lord
#36. I always wanted a dog with a bangs
Jenny Han
#38. While discussing the monster:
"It sounds like the combination of water being poured into a glass," Miss Hawkline said, "A dog barking and the muttering of a drunk parrot. And very, very loud."
"I think we're going to need the shotgun for this one," Cameron said.
Richard Brautigan
#39. 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
#40. Hans nods emphatically, lips pressed together, eyes bright and taunting, like a dog who steals a handkerchief so you will chase
Hilary Mantel
#42. I wouldn't touch a hot dog unless you put a condom on it! You realize that the job of a hot dog is to use parts of the animal that the Chinese can't figure out how to make into a belt? -timecode 1:11:10
Bill Maher
#43. We waited until we perfected the dog food, and then we worked on the cat food. Even though it's not going through the roof the way the dog food is, I think it will catch on eventually.
Dick Van Patten
#44. When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
David Starr Jordan
#46. Cause you piss me off. You make me laugh. You make me think. You're absolutely fine with me bein' nothin' but me. You're fuckin' gorgeous. You're a great lay. And you like my dog.
Kristen Ashley
#47. He was being really cute and funny. Then he moved in close. I was terrified - I mean, I hardly know him, but it was also sort of exciting. Until we actually kissed.
Kendra, he had dog breath.
Brandon Mull
#48. If Jenny were a book, she would be a paperback just out of the box - no dog ears, no waterlogging, no creases in her spine.
Gabrielle Zevin
#49. Meat is dirty. I wouldn't touch a hot dog without a condom on it
Bill Maher
#50. You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'
Lewis Grizzard
#51. 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
#52. She thought of the grainy video of him she had seen, head tipped back, so covered in blood that she hadn't remembered his features, hadn't remembered him as looking like anything but a monster, laughing, endlessly laughing.
Mad as a dog. Mad as a god.
Holly Black
#53. To others in my family, the dog was something of a sacred object that had prolonged my father's life and helped to steady the rest of us. He was a fine dog, and after him, my father had no other dog.
Norman Maclean
#54. Sister, I do what I do, and I do it better than most, and I take some satisfaction in that. I am like a very dependable dog. They throw a stick into a jungle and I can go in there and bring it back.
John D. MacDonald
#55. Most owners are at length able to teach themselves to obey their dog.
Robert Morley
#56. A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
Erica Jong
#57. A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however, eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest though poor.
Bertrand Russell
#58. Yo, man," he said. "You got, like, half a dog hanging off your back bumper."
"Do I?"
"Yeah. Did you drive over it? On purpose, like?"
"No. The Buddha teaches respect for all life." Then, under his breath. "I guess I did shoot a couple though.
Scott Hawkins
#59. Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#60. A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.
Barbara Kingsolver
#61. This new thinking leads away from the pack, but a dog is no dog if he does not belong.
Andre Alexis
#62. American dog say, 'Woof, woof.' Korean dog say, 'Mung, mung.' Polish dog say, 'How, how.' So which dog barking is correct? That is human beings' barking, not 'dog' barking. If dog and you become one hundred percent one, then you know sound of barking. This is Zen teaching. Boom! Become one.
Seung Sahn
#63. I have no reason to influence people. I just want to have it all for myself. I just want someone to pat me on the back. (laugh) It's crazy. It seems just completely ridiculous. I don't know why. I mean, three years ago, I wouldn't be able to influence my dog to walk.
Robert Pattinson
#64. 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
#65. She knew: shit, we might as well have been drinking a dog's tears. Nothing mattered except that we were alive.
Denis Johnson
#67. I ate a vendor's hot dog with sauerkraut (a combination whose tastiness still makes me tremble), walking fast in order to save as much of the twenty minutes of my lunch hour I had left for reading.
Nicholson Baker
#68. Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.
Laurence J. Peter
#69. The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale.
[The dog that licks ashes trust not with meal.]
George Herbert
#70. Never stand between a dog and the hydrant.
John Peers
#71. I want to be a dog, but I'm a pussycat.
Don Rickles
#72. If anyone have intercourse with a pig or a dog, he shall die. If a man have intercourse with a horse or a mule, there is no punishment. But he shall not approach the king, and shall not become a priest ... If a pig spring upon a man for intercourse, there is no punishment.
Orson Scott Card
#74. Dog doesn't eat dog, and doctors don't bite doctors, not even when they are mad doctors. I shouldn't care to cast any reflection on my eminent predecessor in Potter's Pond, if I could avoid it;
G.K. Chesterton
#75. Homeless people's dogs are more knowledgeable than dogs in Beverly Hills. Why? Because they explore, they move forward, they go through the ups and downs in life. A dog in a wealthy environment, there is no downs except what he lives.
Cesar Millan
#76. In their capacity to feel pain and fear, a pig is a dog is a bear is a boy.
Philip Wollen
#77. Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
Doug Larson
#78. Then a homeless man with a dog approached us and put his hand out. This happens to be something that I have a real problem with: homeless people with pets who approach you for food when they have a perfectly delicious dog standing right there?
Chelsea Handler
#79. Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
H. G. Bissinger
#80. Worry whispered through his mind like madness. Mad Dog had refused to leave his family, and in the end, it had cost all of them their lives. Ryder swore he'd find a way to leave before anything happened to Lauren.
Cindy Skaggs
#81. Ask a glass of water why it pities
the rain. Ask the lunatic yard dog why it tolerates the leash.
Terrance Hayes
#82. It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm just a kitten.
Jarod Kintz
#83. Oh, silly me. Lottie is Olive's dog. You must have seen her: pretty little black cocker spaniel. Mind you, what Olive's son thought he was doing getting his mother a dog last Christmas, I don't know. Crazy with her health problems; and where is he now? Scarpered off to live in Australia.
Mary Grand
#84. Ree sat chilled inside her squat tent. To occupy her mind, she decided to name all the Miltons: Thump, Blond, Catfish, Spider, Whoop, Rooster, Scrap ... Lefty, Dog, Punch, Pinkeye, Momsy ... Cotton, Hog-jaw, Ten Penny, Peashot ...
Daniel Woodrell
#85. It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.
John Grogan
#86. I'd trade every last one of you for a moment's peace and a dog that didn't P on the carpet
Lois Greiman
#87. She looks at me, this is not what she had expected, she sniffs at the food and only slowly starts to eat, swallows each mouthful with demonstrative gloom, and then turns to look at me again, a long look, with those eyes, sighs and goes on, as if she were emptying the poisoned chalice. Spoiled dog.
Per Petterson
#88. Yet did you know that every dog alive today has a little wolf DNA? Not just huskies, who often look like wolves, but pugs, corgis, poodles? Chuhuahuas - they sometimes act like they still are wolves.
W. Bruce Cameron
#89. You can tell the true character of a man by how his dog and his kids react to him." "If you don't believe in God, you should believe in the technology that's going to make us immortal.
Timothy Ferriss
#91. My generation must have despair. - Leonard Bernstein Ch 40/Dog Water Free, A Memoir
Michael Jay
#92. Somebody threw a dead dog after him down the ravine.
Malcolm Lowry
#93. I have realized that businesses - whether they make dog food or software - don't sell products; they sell solutions.
Jay Samit
#94. We never really own a dog as much as she owns us.
Gene Hill
#95. Fortunately my wife is understanding. When I come home from the races she never asks any questions, if I tell her I just ate a $380 hot dog.
Tim Conway
#96. I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
Florence Welch
#97. You will never reach your destination if you stop & throw stones at every dog that barks ... Better keep biscuits & Move on.
Dhirubhai Ambani
#98. My neighbor has two dogs. One of them says to the other, "Woof!" The other replies, "Moo!" The dog is perplexed. "Moo? Why did you say 'Moo'?" The other dog says, "I'm trying to learn a foreign language."
Morey Amsterdam
#99. It's interesting. People go to an animal shelter and pick a dog that's been kicked, beaten, and has lost a leg and an eye, and they'll take that dog home and give it love and support, but they don't do that with people.
Nikki Sixx
#100. Did you hear about the dog that was so high-strung, he developed a nervous tick?
Jay Leno
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