Top 79 Quotes About Humans And Dogs
#1. The planet of humans and dogs spins and sails, spins and sails.
There is nothing I can do about it. Things keep moving. The knackery never shuts down.
Andrew Smith
#2. Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience.
Jon Winokur
#3. This house is just a thing ... On your love list, always put the beating hearts at the top.
Meg Donohue
#4. Men cannot think like dogs ... [There exists] a sharp difference in the mental capacity of humans and canines. For example, a human who is given an intricate problem will spend all day trying to solve it, but a canine will have the sense to give up and do something else instead.
Corey Ford
#5. Books understand me, but humans don't understand me. They are bad friends books are forever as well as computer's and Tv and everything else which doesn't have soul. Although that dogs and cats and many other animals are quite interesting friends.
Deyth Banger
#6. In a society where people are obsessed with personal space, dogs have come to serve as welcome, neo-human mediators of loneliness and solitude.
Okey Ndibe
#7. Sometimes I worry about how attached I am to this dog. About the fact that the primary relationship of my life is with a canine. That at the end of a terrible day I look forward to nothing more than coming home and lying on the bed, under the covers, with a giant Great Dane.
Eve Marie Mont
#8. To your dog, you are the greatest, the smartest, the nicest human being who was ever born.
Jack Canfield
#10. Dogs die. But dogs live, too. Right up until they die, they live. They live brave, beautiful lives. They protect their families. And love us. And make our lives a little brighter. And they don't waste time being afraid of tomorrow.
Dan Gemeinhart
#11. Of course her dumb Lab's going to do whatever it takes to retrieve the ball. What he craves more than freedom is companionship.
Shannon Mullen
#12. I missed Eve so much I couldn't be a human anymore and feel the pain that humans feel. I had to be an animal again.
Garth Stein
#13. To a space alien or a German Shepherd dog, the two humans would be indistinguishable, just as attractive and unattractive space aliens and German Shepherd dogs are difficult for you to tell apart.
David Eagleman
#14. It seems increasingly dogs are attacking humans in response to their slavery ... AND, wildlife in captivity are also attacking their enslavers AND the public ... Their messages are loud and clear: LET US OUT AND LEAVE US ALONE!!!
Adela Popescu
#15. There was no mistaking; he was a King on his throne... and I crowned him.
Jessica M. Collette
#16. What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
S. Jay Olshansky
#17. I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.
Claude Shannon
#18. How many abused souls - dogs and humans alike - have remained in an unloving place because staying was far less terrifying than leaving?
Ted Kerasote
#19. Humans live a lot longer than dogs, and we don't suffer any penalty that I can see. We're superior in almost every way - they can smell better. But really, they can't drive cars, they can't do half the things we can. I don't understand why you can't live longer and be really fit.
Cynthia Kenyon
#20. Love is love," I told her, as I tell all of my patients who are ashamed to find themselves shattered by the death of a dog. "Loss is loss.
Meg Donohue
#21. You can know an animal - or a person, for that matter - in an instant, really, though your understanding can go on unfolding for years.
Mark Doty
#22. Dogs are loyal, patient, fearless, forgiving, and capable of pure love. Virtues that few people get through life without abandoning, at least once.
M.K. Clinton
#23. Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we can see them go from puppyhood to adolescence to strong adulthood and then into their sunset years in 10 to 12 years. It really drives home the point of how finite all our lives are.
John Grogan
#24. I've always had this feeling," Henry says, "that all dogs are really therapy dogs.
Meg Donohue
#25. Dogs and humans are symbiotic species. We need each other.
Cynthia Heimel
#26. 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
#27. Santa Monica's only walkable if death is no hurdle. The air's the wrong colour. People put sunglasses on their dogs. It's a hideous place where humans are not welcome and those who stay suffer eight kinds of brain damage.
Warren Ellis
#28. Dogs are actually very smart, it's just that they're rather clumsy, but it's this trait that makes humans attracted to them and why I love dogs so much.
Hiromu Arakawa
#29. The first animals to be successfully domesticated were dogs, which were a big help because they would bark all night and fetch thrown sticks, thereby freeing humans from having to perform these tedious yet vital tasks.
Dave Barry
#30. Humans serve cats as dogs serve humans. And sometimes, I fear, as ineptly.
Jon Evans
#31. Who knows what the long-term effects of saving rescue dogs are and the healing lessons and love they bring to Earth? Each one of us has the capacity to influence hundreds - even thousands of people or animals through the way we live our lives.
Jadi Kindred
#32. Humans will always tell you the story. Dogs can only tell you the truth. Trust your instincts and listen your dog.
Cesar Millan
#33. With dogs you just go up and smell their asses and you know where you stand. It's so much easier. Why can't humans do that?
Kevin Hearne
#34. Dogs are always good and full of selfless love. They are undiluted vessels of joy who never, ever deserve anything bad that happens to them.
Steven Rowley
#35. and much of what she came to understand was that humans were domestic animals like dogs and cats. They responded poorly to threats and well to a gentle building of trust.
James S.A. Corey
#36. I liked the idea of adopting a dog that was beyond the puppy stage, a dog with an unknown span of life under his belt. It seemed only fair; he didn't know what he was getting into with me either.
Meg Donohue
#37. The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this Earth can ever be.
Konrad Lorenz
#39. I like dogs considerably more than I like humans. That doesn't make me antihuman; there are plenty of humans I'm very fond of. But generally speaking, if I simultaneously meet a new human and a new dog, I'm going to like the dog more. I'm certainly going to trust the dog more.
David Rosenfelt
#41. Both bonobos and common chimps are as close to humans as foxes are to dogs. I don't know about you, but that's closer than I feel to some of my human relatives.
Susan Block
#42. One of the biggest myths debunked by science is that dogs see only in black and white. Contrary to that popular belief, dogs have dichromatic vision, meaning that they can see shades of yellow and blue.
Victoria Stilwell
#43. People always love it when you say their dogs are nice. Just shows you how out of touch they are.
Sue Grafton
#44. Dogs are blameless, devoid of calculation, neither blessed nor cursed with human motives. They can't really be held responsible for what they do. But we can."
--from The Dogs of Bedlam Farm
Jon Katz
#45. My grandmother said it very simply: "If you don't like dogs, you don't like humans, and vice versa." I really believe that.
Veronika Varekova
#46. To become a good dog-doctor it is necessary to love dogs, but it is also necessary to understand them - the same as with us, with the difference that it is easier to understand a dog than a man and easier to love him.
Axel Munthe
#47. She still didn't like the idea. But she wouldn't question me again. She placed the judgment of her humans ahead of her own, as a matter of courtesy and pride, even if she was always right and we were always wrong. Good dogs are like that.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#48. I'm convinced that petting a puppy is good luck.
Meg Donohue
#49. at first sight everyone seems like human.
Arzum Uzun
#50. Cynophilist: paradoxical being that often despises man and adores the dog, apparently, mainly because of the unconditional love that the latter has for the first.
Luigina Sgarro
#51. In dog culture, when someone calls you, you should absolutely not come if that results in the ending of something you like or initiation of something you don't like.
Jean Donaldson
#53. You could be Charles Manson, or Hitler, or even a lawyer who advertises on television, and your dog will still think you're the greatest thing ever. This tells you something very important about dogs: They are not very bright.
Dave Barry
#54. Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbred courtesies.
Robin Hobb
#55. If your dog doesn't like someone, you probably shouldn't either.
Jack Canfield
#56. most dogs seemed contented enough, and often seemed rather happier than the humans attached to them.
Alexander McCall Smith
#57. I have a theory that you get the right dog, the dog you need, for a particular stage in your life.
Meg Donohue
#58. I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.
David Duchovny
#59. humans are fully capable of loving cats and dogs and tropical fish. If they can love something much less intelligent than humans that does not talk and looks nothing like them, why can they not love one another? Certainly,
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#60. When dogs and humans make eye contact, that actually releases what's known as the love hormone, oxytocin, in both the dog and the human.
Brian Hare
#61. We don't need guns, we got dogs!
T.A. Uner
#62. If you can be content with who you are, how you look and then try every day to make a difference to someone else, then it leads to a wonderful life. It's a shame more humans can't grasp that fact. - M.K. Clinton
M.K. Clinton
#63. She is our dog. And because she is our dog, we can pick out the tiny, almost imperceptible good qualities from the ocean of terrible qualities, and we can cling to them. Because we want to love our dog.
Allie Brosh
#64. These dogs didn't bother to bond with us, but stuck out their paws, not to shake hands but so we could slit their wrists and get it the hell over with. (p.51)
Stephanie Powell Watts
#65. Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one ... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.
Mark Twain
#66. People love dogs. This is, I hope, the least surprising sentence you will read in this book. I myself have had long discussions with my dog friends, and by that I mean my friends who are dogs.
Bill Nye
#67. Because humans, in effect, created dogs through domestication, the canine mind reflects back to us how we see ourselves through the eyes, ears, and noses of another species.
Gregory Berns
#68. Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#69. A pack of five dogs, as variable in size and shape as humans, trotted in a veering path toward the two men; they sniffed and growled and nipped at one another, then broke into a lope down the street, with the smallest mutt in the lead.
Victor Robert Lee
#70. Humans are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life, the worries and bills and the mechanisms of jobs, the doltish psychologies we've placed over our lives like a stencil. A dog keeps his life simple and unadorned.
Brad Watson
#71. I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
John Steinbeck
#72. It came to me that every time I lose a dog they take a piece of my heart with them. And every new dog who comes into my life gifts me with a piece of their heart. If I live long enought, all the components of my heart will be dog, and I will become as generous and loving as they are.
Unknown Author 909
#73. The very best thing about dogs is how they just know when you need them most, and they'll drop everything that they're doing to sit with you awhile.
Steven Rowley
#74. 'Lassie' was amazing. I didn't have any scenes with humans. There's a couple little bits, here or there, but mainly just me and my horse and a couple of dogs in the Isle of Man.
Peter Dinklage
#75. Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
O. Henry
#76. There's facts about dogs, and then there's opinions about them. The dogs have the facts, and the humans have the opinions. If you want the facts about the dog, always get them straight from the dog. If you want opinions, get them from humans.
J. Boone
#77. A dog is one of the few remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.
Jack Canfield
#79. If you come to think of it, you never see deer, dogs and rabbits worrying about their menus and yet they run much faster than humans.
Emil Zatopek
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