Dogs Are Not Our Whole Life Quotes

#1. Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

Roger A. Caras

#2. Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life

W. H. Auden

#3. Jane lives by this philosophy: Life, especially that of dogs, is too short for harsh training and too long to be without learning.

Jane Young

#4. Today we have made a fetish of choice; but a chosen death is forbidden. Perhaps what distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans have learnt to cling more abjectly to life.

John N. Gray

#5. We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.

Max DePree

#6. I don't really have a life outside of movies. But I like to climb mountains and walk the dogs. I like fine wines and good restaurants.

Neil Marshall

#7. Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.

Salma Hayek

#8. If my life was a song it would be 'Who Let The Dogs Out'.

Casey Abrams

#9. 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

#10. I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler ... or dogs refusing to leave the bodies of the people they were bonded to, sitting in cemeteries for days or sometimes weeks. You find these stories endlessly.

Robert Crais

#11. I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life.

Robbie Robertson

#12. In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us.

John Grogan

#13. My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to be washed, but maybe blueberry facials aren't essential. It's quite fun, though. You want to give your children everything; I don't have children, so I want my dogs to have a good life.

Tamara Ecclestone

#14. There's life after divorce, Sarah,' my father proclaimed, not that he'd ever been divorced.

Claire Cook

#15. Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge.

Jerry Seinfeld

#16. My dogs.
Bill Blass, after being asked "Who or what is the greatest love of your life?" by Vanity Fair magazine

Bill Blass

#17. We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.

Roger Caras

#18. And I thought: I shall remember this all my life. The peril, the running, the howling of the dogs, the smothering. Then the happiness - of action, of leaping. Then the green sweetness of distance. And the trees: their thickness and their compassion, all around.

Mary Oliver

#19. I had always disliked men. It must have been born in me, because, as far back as I can remember, an antipathy to men and dogs was one of my strongest characteristics. I was noted for that. My experiences through life only served to deepen it. The more I saw of men, the more I liked cats.

L.M. Montgomery

#20. Sometimes, it turns out, the most important decisions in life are made by your dog.

Adam Gidwitz

#21. Love's Pestilence, and her slow dogs of war.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#22. Politicians are like dogs ... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable

Henry Kissinger

#23. What was one to do, thought Adela, with someone who didn't talk gardening or dogs - those standbys of rural conversation.

Agatha Christie

#24. There will always be detours in the fascinating game called life. Find the path to your heart's desires, and stay on course.

Elizabeth Parker

#25. Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do.

Caroline Knapp

#26. I'm not a potato sack; I've never sat on my couch. If I'm home, I'm cleaning, feeding my dogs, doing stuff. Life is too precious to waste time.

Gisele Bundchen

#27. Dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors,

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#28. Giving saves lives. Especially the giver's.

Shannon Kopp

#29. My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.

William Shatner

#30. If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

Roger A. Caras

#31. I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.

Macaulay Culkin

#32. I have a theory that you get the right dog, the dog you need, for a particular stage in your life.

Meg Donohue