Top 100 Quotes About A Dog
#1. I want to be a dog, but I'm a pussycat.
Don Rickles
#2. But destiny grips us and, the next morning, in a soft winter rain, we buried the dead, paid silver coins, and then walked southward. We were a boy on the edge of being a grown man, a girl, and a dog, and we were going to nowhere.
Bernard Cornwell
#3. This isn't the medieval era, my lord. I'll be damned if I need to put on a dog-and-pony show with a peer as part of a business deal."
"Speaking as the other half of the dog-and-pony show," Westcliff said sardonically, "I'm not fond of the idea either.
Lisa Kleypas
#4. Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. Andrea: " ... I think a dog is a great idea. I just never pictured you with a mutant poodle."
Kate: "He isn't a poodle. He's a Doberman mix."
Andrea: "Aha. Keep telling yourself that.
Ilona Andrews
#7. If your words do not have a smile, if you do not talk heart to heart, and you decide everything with your head, it is better to keep a dog as a friend rather than you.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#8. We have received a dog with serious eye problems and a skin disease in hopeless stage. The person who brought it here demanded we cure it for free and refused the idea of euthanasia to end its pain.
Min Zhou
#9. What a dog I got. Last night he went on the paper four times - three while I was reading it.
Rodney Dangerfield
#10. Better feed him more beans or you're going to have a midget on your hands, Wiley," he said. "It's bad enough to be deaf, but to be a deaf midget ... oh God, help us. I had a dog like that once.
Nick Wilgus
#11. Not in a dog's age. Not since that Dorothy. And you and the others. Did Dorothy ever stop whimpering so? She'll grow up to require the convent, mark my words. Or a husband with a good strong backhand. Her fanny wants spanking badly.
Gregory Maguire
#12. I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.
William H. Macy
#13. It is almost impossible to say the name of Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawat without adding 'give a dog a bone'
Rory Bremner
#14. A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.
Josh Billings
#15. I bark my voice out through a closed throat, pretty much. It's more, perhaps, like a dog in some ways. It does have its limitations, but I'm learning different ways to keep it alive.
Tom Waits
#16. The only time a dog gets complimented is when he doesn't do anything.
Charles M. Schulz
#17. There are as many ways to discover your story as there are to trip over a dog in the kitchen--and some of them feel about as planned.
Jeffrey A. Carver
#18. I have a dog as well, and I'm not a vegan or anything. But I needlepoint and I have a cat, so it's not boding well.
Emmy Rossum
#19. Only an adult with dying dreams can appreciate how awesome it is to have a dog.
Bill Burr
#20. I like cats a lot. I've always liked cats. They're great company. When they eat, they always leave a little bit at the bottom of the bowl. A dog will polish the bowl, but a cat always leaves a little bit. It's like an offering.
Christopher Walken
#21. If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose them. It's helpful when you get a dog to accept the fact that this dog is not going to be with you your whole life.
Jon Katz
#22. Frankenweenie is also about mortality, but at a very different stage. It's losing a parent versus losing a dog. I don't run away from the tears of that, which I think is what makes it feel universal.
John August
#23. She was a dog whose supper bowl was currently lodged in a different corner of the multiverse entirely, but who had no concern about that as long as her master whistled for her.
Terry Pratchett
#24. Gaily, if you can't demonstrate the ability to keep her alive, then I will
take over her care and get you a dog instead. - Newt
Kim Harrison
#25. I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.
Mark Haddon
#26. Whether one was going to have a horse, or a dog, or a child, with that comes a great responsibility to raise them.
Buck Brannaman
#27. He's wearing a dog tag. His name is Henry Webb. His unit is called BLM." "What does it mean?" "Black Like Me. A solidarity movement, I suppose.
James Patterson
#28. Yet despite these advantages, England's empire remained unlaunched until the seventeenth century. The problem is a dog-in-the-night
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
#29. A dog looks up to you, a cat looks down on you, but a pig looks you straight in the eye.
Robert Harris
#30. Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.
Erma Bombeck
#31. You seeyou can beat a dog and it's going to do one of two things..it's gonna roll over and die or it's going to bite you and attack you. And I'm the kind of person..uh..whose the type of dog that will bite back..I wasn't going to roll over and die
Mike Katz
#32. I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.
Jim Harrison
#33. I had a dog named Oliver with severe separation anxiety. He couldn't be alone ... so I had to bring him wherever I went.
Matthew Pearl
#34. People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.
Mitch Hedberg
#35. You are a dog in the manger, Cathy, and desire no one to be loved but yourself!
Emily Bronte
#36. Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran. But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, 'Hi' to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
Al Franken
#37. When you got a guy that has purpose, now your in a dog fight.
Daniel Cormier
#38. Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring
it was peace.
Milan Kundera
#39. You don't even have a cat or a dog or anything?"
"You think I should?" George asks, a bit aggressive. The poor old guy doesn't have anything to love, he thinks Kenny is thinking.
"Hell, no! Didn't Baudelaire say they're liable to turn into demons and take over your life?
Christopher Isherwood
#40. Somewhere a dog barked. With the help of fear and echoes and winter silences, that dog had a voice like a big bronze gong.
Kurt Vonnegut
#41. Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.
Walker Percy
#42. You looked at me, your eyes huge. You we're like a dog then, waiting for me to throw you a bone ... waiting for something I could never give you.
Lucy Christopher
#43. 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
#44. I make a dog-friendly version of almost everything that we make for dinner.
Rachael Ray
#45. I never met a dog lover I didn't like.
Marty Rubin
#46. In training a dog you must reward only those behaviors you desire the dog to repeat endlessly.
Alexandra Horowitz
#47. I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.
Bill Murray
#48. My cats inspire me daily. They inspire me to get a dog!
Greg Curtis
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Does every pickup in Idaho come complete with a dog in the back?
Stan Purdum
#57. 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
#58. I always wanted a dog with a bangs
Jenny Han
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. Hans nods emphatically, lips pressed together, eyes bright and taunting, like a dog who steals a handkerchief so you will chase
Hilary Mantel
#62. When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
David Starr Jordan
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm just a kitten.
Jarod Kintz
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#72. We never really own a dog as much as she owns us.
Gene Hill
#73. 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
#74. In their capacity to feel pain and fear, a pig is a dog is a bear is a boy.
Philip Wollen
#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
#77. 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
#78. I reckon you've called the turn, Bill. That wolf's a dog, an' it's eaten fish many's the time from the hand of man. (ch. 2.)
Jack London
#79. Gamers can feel when developers are passionate about their games. They can smell it like a dog smells fear. Don't be afraid to hold onto your unique vision: just be aware that it may not turn out exactly how you envisioned.
Scott Rogers
#81. I think the artistic process comes from disorder. When you are happy, it's not always a feeling that you can identify. It's like a dog sitting in front of a fire. Pain isolates you, but it can also clarify things.
Amanda Harlech
#82. You can't put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!
Phil McGraw
#83. Only a human being can step out of himself and analyze what he is doing right and what he is doing wrong. A dog
Robin S. Sharma
#85. When you walk a dog on a short leash, she's close enough to bite you.
Ilona Andrews
#86. A man stroking a dog's head means the universe is stroking the universe; a child playing with a little dog means the universe is playing with the universe! If the universe is a theatre play, then we can be sure that there is only one player: The universe itself! Everything we see is the same player!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#87. You can't teach a dog not to bark, for 'tis God's will that they do,
Elizabeth Hoyt
#88. I apologize. Hi, I'm Agent Sloane Brodie, your Team Leader. I enjoy reading, cozy nights in, and the soothing sounds of classic rock. I also like to browse the Internet for funny cat videos, but deep down, I think I'm more of a dog person.
Charlie Cochet
#89. I'm convinced, though I'm no expert in biology, if you cut a dog's brain open it would just be a perfect little human brain, with none of the bad parts.
J. David Osborne
#90. A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself.
George D. Prentice
#91. I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive.
Gail Collins
#92. Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg? The answer: Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Warren Buffett
#93. People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.
Jill Abramson
#94. You could have gotten a car with GPS," Total said helpfully.
Yes," I said "Or we could have brought along a dog that doesn't talk." I gave Angel a pointed look, and she smiled, well, angelically, at me.
Total huffed, offended at me and climbed into her lap ...
James Patterson
#95. A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.
John Holmes
#96. Show me a dog who still cannot perform a task after it has been trained over and over again, and I'll tell you who the slow learner is.
Barry McDonald
#97. I did get upset once, when we were hiking between pitches 15 and 16. Two women and a dog were trying to find their way down through the maze of trails below the First Summit and they asked us: 'Are you on the trail?' I let my indignity show: 'NO, we're on a CLIMB!'
Andy Cairns
#98. Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth.
Alvin Adams
#99. He wasn't a man, but a tape recorder, repeating catch phrases and old slogans without any thought to the concepts behind them, a dog stuck in the training of his youth and faithfully executing his tasks long after his master had moved on.
Harvey Pekar
#100. Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral.
Elizabeth Pena
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