Top 14 Old Dog Quotes
#1. The house stank; a stench all its own pervaded every corner. It was a threnody in the key of Cat minor, with a ground-bass of Old Dog, and modulations of old people, waning lives, and relinquished hopes.
Robertson Davies
#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 old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
Robert Frost
#6. Who's this - alone with stone and sky? It's only my old dog and I - It's only him; it's only me; Alone with stone and grass and tree. What share we most - we two together? Smells, and awareness of the weather. What is it makes us more than dust? My trust in him; in me his trust.
Siegfried Sassoon
#7. There will be grace and forgiveness enough, old dog, even for you. I pray you will spare me a drink from that cup, when it overflows for you.
- Miles Vorkosigan
Lois McMaster Bujold
#8. The greatest trick you can teach an old dog is how to learn new tricks.
J.S. Davey
#9. (He) had not realized how much he needed this sweet, friendly sound. How much he needed someone to settle in next to him. He didn't know that he needed to not be so solitary until at last he wasn't. So many needs in one old dog.
Kathi Appelt
#10. An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing.
Robert Breault
#11. Come on cats, let's go.
Let's teach those old dog cheap trick beatniks some new kicks and bottle up and blow.
Harry Whitewolf
#12. If the old dog barke he gives counsell.
[If the old dog barks, he gives counsel.]
George Herbert
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
Josh Billings
#18. 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
#19. You can teach an old dog new tricks with the right kind of doggie treats.
Cynthia Lewis
#20. 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
#21. Death is like an old dog. He always knows when you are at his door.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#22. that there was more life in the old dog, Atari then sold the newly designed 2600 as the Atari 2600 Jr for less than 50 dollars, as well as the 7800 that had been gathering dust in storage for over a year. Videogames were, once again, the big thing, and in
Imagine Publishing
#23. And I will love words for their own sake, like 'hyacinth' and 'Piccadilly' and 'onyx.' And I'll have a good old dog, and think what I like, and be part of a different sort of family, with friends, you know? - who understand that things are only worth what you're willing to give up for them.
Rick Elice
#24. I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home.
Doc Watson
#25. A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
Erica Jong
#26. 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
#27. If the old dog hadn't got distracted by the fire plug, he would have caught the rabbit.
Hayes McClerkin
#28. He said, 'Good dog, Beaumont the valiant, sleep now, old friend Beaumont, good old dog.' Then Robin's falchion let Beaumont out of this world, to run free with Orion and roll among the stars.
T.H. White
#29. 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
#30. (I) just had to show there's life in the old dog yet. (You) don't have to go out and shoot me.
Billy Idol
#31. I love it, to have the same crew. I'm not married. I don't have children. My 17-year-old dog died. I'm kind of on my own. So I really like having the same camera guy for four years. I love looking around and seeing the hair and makeup people who have been there from the beginning.
Julianne Moore
#34. I went to a Radiohead concert with Mr. Aaron Paul and became instantly hip. He's a great tweeter and took a photograph of the two of us. He said, 'Man, look at this! We've already got 800 hits in five minutes!' So this old dog became hip.
Pierce Brosnan
#35. Let's just say that if you were stealing TVs instead of thoughts, you would have been caught by a half-deaf, mostly blind, fifteen year old dog three robberies ago.
Elizabeth Chandler
#37. I'm an old dog; I don't get too excited. I don't get caught up in all the mass hysteria.
Tim Howard
#38. You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don't want to see the dog doing them.
Bill Cosby
#39. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. Death-bed promises should be broken as lightly as they are seriously made.
-The Gay Old Dog
Edna Ferber
#45. 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
#47. The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it.
Carlos Castaneda
#48. 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
#51. I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab.
Sue Monk Kidd
#52. 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
#53. There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin
#55. Of course I would like to play with Cristiano Ronaldo - he is a great player.
Luis Suarez
#56. For though we stubbornly cling, believing in our moment of hunger that there is no other possibility of love, we only have to let go of what we want so badly and our life will unfold. For love is everywhere.
Mark Nepo
#57. I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer.
Nancy Astor
#59. I don't think there is a woman in her 40s who doesn't, kind of, examine herself in the mirror ...
Sarah Silverman
#60. A secret talent or hobby ... Hmm ... I weirdly collect shot glasses.
Austin Mahone
#61. And it didn't matter how many songs or poems had already been written about them, because whenever he thought about the girl, the stars shone brighter. As if she were the one keeping them illuminated.
Stephanie Perkins
#62. Of course my life has changed because now everybody knows who Felix Baumgartner is.
Felix Baumgartner
#63. Don't need cars cause we've learned to fly on Saturn.
Stevie Wonder
#64. Everything I think of now is too rude to actually say.
Craig Ferguson
#66. I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
Margaret Thatcher
#67. The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#68. for the days were so full of unthinking effort
Norman Matson
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