Quotes About Old Dogs

#1. O the stale old dogs who pretend to guard
the morals of the masses,
how smelly they make the great back-yard
wetting after everyone that passes.

D.H. Lawrence

#2. Grief is a disease. We were riddled with its pockmarks, tormented by its fevers, broken by its blows. It ate at us like maggots, attacked us like lice- we scratched ourselves to the edge of madness. In the process we became as withered as crickets, as tired as old dogs.

Yann Martel

#3. Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become as locked into yours as the quietest and kindest of marriages.

Gail Caldwell

#4. 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

#5. Old dogs care about you, even when you make mistakes.

Tom T. Hall

#6. I've had a lot of people tell me they watched 'Old Dogs' with their kids and had a good time.

Robin Williams

#7. 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

#8. How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.

E.W. Howe

#9. I like dogs
Big dogs
Little dogs
Fat dogs
Doggy dogs
Old dogs
Puppy dogs
I like dogs
A dog that is barking over the hill
A dog that is dreaming very still
A dog that is running wherever he will
I like dogs.

Margaret Wise Brown

#10. I would not presume to be as experienced as some of my senior and more esteemed colleagues. But there is something to be said for the impartiality of youth. New perspectives sometimes yield revelations disregarded by those of a more inveterate nature. Old dogs and new tricks, as it were.

Randy Henke

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

Daniel Pinkwater

#12. Ain't but three things in this world worth a solitary dime/
But old dogs, children, and watermelon wine

Tom T. Hall

#13. You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.

Joseph Chamberlain

#14. That's a big trunk," James said, as we jammed in the leathery old case that looked so much like the black heart of some leviathan. "It fits a tuba, three suitcases, a dead dog, and a garment bag almost perfectly."
"That's just what they used to say in the ads," I said ...

Michael Chabon

#15. A black pit bull barreled against the fence, jaws dripping with saliva, viciously barking like Old Yeller after the hydrophobia kicked in.

Chris Fabry

#16. Dogs live in the moment, and don't have a concept of past or future. That's why you must immediately correct your dog if it breaks the rules. The old trick of rubbing your puppy's face in his poop or urine is not effective - your dog will have no idea why it is being punished.

Tom Ester

#17. I was never one of those girls who dreamt of Prince Charming. To piss off my mom, I would say, 'I'm never having kids and I'm going to be a fabulously rich old maid with cute butlers and dogs.'

Jessica Biel

#18. A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but also when they are old and past service.

Plutarch

#19. While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.

Rita Mae Brown

#20. I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates ... or with big dogs.

Maeve Binchy

#21. We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who treat female illnesses are womanizers and cynics at heart. Gynecologists deal with savage prose the likes of which you have never dreamed of.

Anton Chekhov

#22. Boys don't smell the same as girls. They have a pungent, leathery, underneath smell, like old rope, like damp dogs.

Margaret Atwood

#23. I have to deal with seven ex-stray dogs, and one ex-stray cat. One dog is nearing nineteen years old. Before I go to teach, he likes for me to tell him bedtime stories.

George Singleton

#24. This sort of talk always bores me: old men complaining that the world is going to the dogs. It's so banal.

Robert Harris

#25. Shelter dogs are the most loving, wonderful, sweet pets in the world. They understand being rescued, loved, and protected. The hubs and I have 2 rescued 11-yr-old Pomeranians, who adore us.

Faith Hunter

#26. Dogs don't got the problems of people.
Dogs can be happy any old time.

Patrick Ness

#27. Katherine Grey was born with the power of managing old ladies, dogs, and small boys, and she did it without any apparent sense of strain.

Agatha Christie

#28. Poor, dear old Mack, he was ninety-eight per cent perfect. His two percent failing was that he had absolutely no idea of the value or the power of arbitration. He was the veteran of a hundred battles, and I never once could say to the other fellow, 'Your dog started it.

William S. Hart

#29. Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself.

Rachel Hunter

#30. Neighbours complaining about someone's dog making an awful racket. You could hardly blame the poor beast, its owner had died in her bed at least a fortnight before and there hadn't been much left of the old girl worth eating.

James Oswald

#31. This boy needs a dog.
What makes you say that?
He needs someone or something to play with besides his phone and an old man and an old woman doddering around.

Kent Haruf

#32. People who don't like cats haven't been around them. There's the old joke: dogs have masters, cats have staff.

Betty White

#33. I've got two dogs - one's a Jack Russell and she's one year old now, and I've got another dog called Kanga, and I got him from a rescue shelter, and there's nothing I enjoy more than just walking them on the beach in Cape Town. I find that very destressing and very relaxing.

Lewis Pugh

#34. The most dreadful part of all," the old stag answered, "is that the dogs believe what the hound just said. They believe it, they pass their lives in fear, they hate Him and themselves and yet they'd die for His sake.

Felix Salten

#35. I was attacked by two dogs when I was three and a half years old. I'm lucky to be alive. My face was stitched back together and here I still am, gratefully so. I believe that experience shocked me into a deep alliance with the animal world, its beauty and viciousness and terror.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#36. I was 11 or 12 years old when I first saw 'Reservoir Dogs.' I remember after I saw that film, I kept renting it from the video store because I wanted all of my friends to see it.

Samm Levine

#37. I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.

Lacey Chabert

#38. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people, they kept on blooming like little children and playing like dogs.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#39. Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.

Joe Gores

#40. Dogs - putting the lie to the age-old saying, I could never love anyone who ate a diaper.

Dana Gould

#41. The two old secretaries conversed in the manner of hostile but toothless male dogs.

John Irving

#42. Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbred courtesies.

Robin Hobb

#43. He's getting old. I don't count the years. I don't multiply by seven. They bred dogs for everything else, even diving for fish, why didn't they breed them to live longer, to live as long as a man?

Peter Heller

#44. A lie is no less a lie because it is a thousand years old. Your undivided church has liked nothing better than persecuting its own members, burning them and hacking them apart when they stood by their own conscience, slashing their bellies open and feeding their guts to dogs.

Hilary Mantel

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

Robbie Robertson

#46. I have never tried to walk through a mall in the Christmas season dressed like a jolly old elf. You might as well dress up like a pork chop and walk into an alley full of starving dogs.

Thomm Quackenbush

#47. I think a great deal of those dogs," she said proudly. "They are over a hundred years old, and they have sat on either side of this fireplace ever since my brother Aaron brought them from London fifty years ago. Spofford Avenue was called after my brother Aaron." "A

L.M. Montgomery

#48. While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox Christianity has not wanted Jesus to have a political message.

N. T. Wright

#49. 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

#50. Dogs are never in a bad mood over something you said at breakfast. Dogs never sniff at the husks of old conversations, or conduct autopsies on weekends gone wrong. An unexamined life may not be worth living, but the overexamined life is hell. We talk too much.

Abigail Thomas

#51. But if someone calls me 'poor thing' one more time, I may go postal and kill everyone around me. Except children and dogs. And old people. And you. And Connor. Fine, I won't kill anyone. But it's driving me crazy.

Kristan Higgins

#52. Memory in its ordinary way summoned harvested fields, and haycocks and autumn hedges, the first of the fuchsia, the last of the wild sweetpea. It brought the lowing of cattle, old donkeys resting, scampering dogs, and days and places.

William Trevor

#53. It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.

Tennessee Williams

#54. Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then 15? months old. Seeing how strong a feeling of jealousy is in dogs, it would probably be exhibited by infants at any earlier age than just specified if they were tried in a fitting manner

Charles Darwin

#55. I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is ... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

#56. I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.

Albert Camus

#57. Honest, hopelessly romantic old-fashioned gentleman seeks lady friend who enjoys elegant dining, dancing and the slow bloom of affection.

Claire Cook

#58. We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the hearth, and grim portraits (some of them with grim legends, too) lower distrustfully from the oaken panels of the walls.

Charles Dickens

#59. Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.

H.P. Lovecraft

#60. Lucky ain't a puppy no more and he don't bark for just any old reason. It takes a mailman, a squirrel, a car, a bird, a blowing leaf, or a tumbling scrap of paper to get him stirred up now.

Sandra Kring