Dog Quotes

It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes.

~ Jay London

I like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr. Seuss and 'Go, Dog. Go!,' thinking, 'Oh yeah, that's funny. I'd like to do that.' And then writing throughout school, but at the same time I was studying pre-med stuff, because my mom told me I should be a doctor.

~ Jon Scieszka

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

~ John Berger

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

~ Harry S Truman

Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns, well, you know what they say in politics, a hit dog hollers.

~ Jennifer Granholm

Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.

~ George Stephanopoulos

It makes one sad to see the sell-out of President Fox; really, it makes one sad. How sad that the president of a people like the Mexicans lets himself become the puppy dog of the empire.

~ Hugo Chavez

My friend created an iPhone app that locates Vienna Beef products across the country. Personally, I came hardwired with an internal GPS that instinctively points me toward coffee shops, cupcake stores and the perfect Chicago-style dog, so I find this technology redundant.

~ Jen Lancaster

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

~ Golda Meir

Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably.

~ Gerard Way

I remember, when I was 7, my dad found a pregnant dog on the railroad track one day and brought her home. So my mom explained about how this dog was married but that her husband had passed away - she didn't want me to even think that a dog could have babies without being married.

~ Bonnie Hunt

My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.

~ Wendy Liebman

I also like men who like dogs. I couldn't date a man who doesn't like my dog.

~ Kristin Davis

I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.

~ Wendy Liebman

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

~ Josh Billings

The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price.

~ Bill Bennett

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

~ John Grogan

If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?

~ Oskar Schindler

Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine.

~ Gary Vaynerchuk

We should be licensing everybody with a gun. I have to have a license for my dog. I have to have a license for my car. If you're going to do my hair later you have to have a license... We don't require a license to own a firearm?

~ Michael Moore

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

In one way or another, President Obama's critics will dog him all the way to Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, and even his admirers will continue to have doubts about his accomplishments if not his promise.

~ Tom Brokaw

I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog.

~ Jean Dujardin

They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'

~ P. J. O'rourke

There has always been a tension in my life between the romantic and the practical. I can't hole myself up in a cabin and write down ideas for the rest of my life. I also need to be able to clean out a dog bite.

~ Ethan Canin

When I'm training a dog, I develop a relationship with that dog. He's my buddy, and I want to make training fun.

~ Ian Dunbar

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.

~ Rita Rudner

There's the conforming 9-to-5-lifestyle thing. Then there's, like, settling down, trying to find a balance in a relationship sense, or having a dog and having a house. All these things, like, they're not really gonna make you happy.

~ Ty Segall

You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

~ Kevin O'leary

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

~ Austin O'malley

The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.

~ John Burroughs

I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all.

~ Eva Green

On my days off, I like to be outdoors - on my bike or walking the dog or swimming - so it's important anyone I date is also into fitness.

~ Mollie King

Every dog is a lion at home.

~ Henry George Bohn

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

~ Guillermo Cabrera Infante

You have to be very insensitive in order to have a cat, because I think they're very independent. When they're kittens, you think they're going to have a dog temperament in that they're going to run to the door when you get home, lick you on the face and cuddle with you all the time, but cats are not that way.

~ Jennifer Love Hewitt

Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.

~ Will Steger

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

~ Val Kilmer

Our dog died from licking our wedding picture.

~ Phyllis Diller