Sleeping Dog Sayings

#1. The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.

Mark Twain

#2. If only it was an island rather than a pretty sleeping dog with sand on its paws and cliffs on its shoulders, waiting to wake it up and tear it.

Kendare Blake

#3. The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#4. If you want to hurt me fine. Take my books. Burn down my house. Shave my head while I'm sleeping. But nobody nobody screws with my dog.

Molly Harper

#5. If ever you're getting a dog, Francis, make sure it's a Buddhist. Good-natured dogs, the Buddhists. Never, never get a Mahommedan. They'll eat you sleeping. Never a Catholic dog. They'll eat you every day including Fridays.

Frank McCourt

#6. A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Orison Swett Marden

#7. Not that the moderns are born with more wit than their predecessors, but, finding the world better furnished at their coming into it, they have more leisure for new thoughts, more light to direct them, and more hints to work upon.

Jeremy Collier

#8. Let sleeping dogs lie - who wants to rouse 'em?

David Copperfield

#9. A woman who repeatedly asks a man she knows to be gay when he's going to get married and have children is not trying to let sleeping dogs lie.

Mallory Ortberg

#10. Don't go on tours with people who have never been there.

Clay Clark

#11. You know how most dogs lick you on the cheek? If you're sleeping and not ready for it, my dog, Joe, will get his tongue inside your mouth. It's by far the worst kiss I've ever had.

Will Estes

#12. If one comes to fundamentals then this is the most fundamental thing: the moment you are not, enlightenment is. With emptiness, the matter is settled.

Osho

#13. Life's just a dream. It isn't real. I know that you can't see that yet. You want me to wake up but in my death I did wake up and I saw you were still sleeping.

Kate McGahan

#14. God always shows us the introduction and the conclusion of our dreams to excite us about the whole task. He doesn't want to show us the daunting body of our dreams because He knows that we'll rather run away from our dreams than to pursue them.

Euginia Herlihy

#15. Karma waits on the doorstep, meaning that a person may try to walk away from past actions, but like a dog sleeping by the door until its master returns, Karma can be endlessly patient. Eventually the universe will insist on redressing the balance of wrong with right.

Deepak Chopra

#16. Oh wow, there's another fly on the wall! Look, there's a new dog sleeping on the sidewalk. Yippee.

R.J. Palacio

#17. I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with.

Isabel Allende

#18. We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.

Donald Rumsfeld

#19. God turns clouds inside out to make fluffy beds for the dogs in Dog Heaven, and when they are tired from running and barking and eating ham-sandwich biscuits, the dogs find a cloud bed for sleeping. God watches over each one of them. And there are no bad dreams.

Cynthia Rylant