Quotes About Dog Tricks

#1. It is hard to teach an old dog tricks.

William Camden

#2. Our experience with newly-minted MBAs has not been that great. Their academic records always look terrific and the candidates always know just what to say; but too often they are short on personal commitment to the company and general business savvy. It's difficult to teach a new dog old tricks.

Warren Buffett

#3. I am very seldom interested in applications. I am more interested in the elegance of a problem. Is it a good problem, an interesting problem?

Claude Shannon

#4. Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.

Amity Gaige

#5. No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it's never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.

Will Ferrell

#6. Old fools is the biggest fools there is. Can't learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is.

Mark Twain

#7. It's my object to be stared at like a dog that's just been shown a card trick.

Bill Hicks

#8. Guests are people who come to your home to see you whine at the table, bark loudly, jump on women wearing pantyhose, and do other tricks which you wouldn't think of doing just for the family.

Peg Kehret

#9. The greatest trick you can teach an old dog is how to learn new tricks.

J.S. Davey

#10. She was such a beautiful and sweet creature ... and so full of tricks.

Queen Victoria

#11. 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

#12. It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.

John Galsworthy

#13. When I was 9 or 10, I had a ten-cent business: I would walk your dog for a dime, go to the store for a dime, empty your garbage for a dime - and then I could use the money to buy tricks at the magic store.

Lily Tomlin

#14. You don't know about that what you talk about," he added, with more feeling than grammar, "else you wouldn't say that. What do you want from me?" Mort

Terry Pratchett

#15. 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

#16. I am a nobody until I make somebody worthy for everybody.

Amit Abraham

#17. You can teach an old dog new tricks with the right kind of doggie treats.

Cynthia Lewis

#18. I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.

Wislawa Szymborska

#19. The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.

Daniel Pinkwater

#20. You can play jacks, and girls do that with a soft ball and do tricks with it. Oh, Oh, dog Biscuit, and when he is happy he doesn't get snappy.

Dutch Schultz

#21. Watch 'Dog with a Blog' to get a good laugh, to see me, of course, and to see an awesome, awesome talking dog who is the cleverest, most awesome dude in the world. He's really, really adorable and cute, and it's really cool seeing what kind of tricks he has up his sleeve.

Blake Michael

#22. The typical American voter is so stupid, his dog teaches him tricks.

Jonathan Gruber

#23. 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

#24. For it is in the arcana of dreams that existences merge and renew themselves, change and yet keep the same.

Bram Stoker

#25. There is no mystique to Tai Chi Chuan. What is difficult is the perseverance. It took me ten years to discover my chi, but thirty years to learn how to use it. Once you see the benefit, you won't want to stop.

Ma Yueliang

#26. Dogs do tricks. Cats play tricks.

Eloisa James

#27. People only invoke history to ballast their arguments in the present." "Maybe

Kim Stanley Robinson

#28. What's missing is the music. I'd like to rant on and on about the music, the mechanics of it. It's what I think about 90 per cent of the day. I don't think about getting high all the time. I guess I do think about sex a lot, though ...

Brian Molko

#29. You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don't want to see the dog doing them.

Bill Cosby

#30. I think everybody in news understands that the audience that watches for more than an hour is not your target audience - because those people are on life support.

John Hockenberry

#31. Perhaps I could teach a horse to do tricks?" Cinderella said. "Like a dog." "That may work better." "Or I could make terrible baskets for a living." "You

K.M. Shea

#32. You can't teach an old dog new tricks,

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

William Camden