Dog Quotes

My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit around worrying about whether she will get fulfilled or liberated or enlightened. As long as she gets some food and a little affection, her life is fine.

~ Joko Beck

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo

A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.

~ Peter Capaldi

From cheesecake on a stick to meat skewers to deep-fried bananas on a stick - there are no plates anymore. In Los Angeles, everything has become a corn dog. Actually, corn dogs still work. But most other food should be stickless.

~ Steve Carell

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully.

~ Jon Katz

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

~ Groucho Marx

Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.

~ Carl Honoré

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

~ Edward Abbey

When you are a kid, a wolf is an amazing sight, so sumptuous. I sort of knew these were splendid creatures, that I was not going to find them outside roaming around. It was like a dog, but not a dog. It was incredible, a god!

~ Sarah Hall

I got my service dog when I was medically retired out of the military, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I wish every medically retired serviceman could have a service dog. He's amazing. He's my best bud. I go everywhere and anywhere with him.

~ Marcus Luttrell

It just kills me when people buy a dog when there are dogs in shelters. I still get emotional when I think of Karl sitting in that shelter. I wasn't looking. I didn't even think I had time for a dog, and then I met this little one and he needed help. It's been so amazing to see him transform into a happy and confident companion.

~ Bob Harper

People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

~ Linda Blair

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

~ Saint Basil

My dog wants the entrepreneurial community to know how thankful she is for the fact that she gets to go out. She has heard more pitches than probably much of the world.

~ Heidi Roizen

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

~ John Calvin

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

~ Edith Wharton

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

~ Franklin P. Jones

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

~ Christopher Morley

Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way.

~ Caroline Knapp

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

~ Jane Goodall

We can stop the cycle of animal homelessness and save lives by opening our hearts and homes to a loving cat or dog from an animal shelter instead of buying animals from breeders or pet shops.

~ Amy Jackson

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.

~ Rodney Dangerfield

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.

~ Fran Lebowitz

There's just me and my wife and a dog and we feed him Healthy Choice also.

~ Mike Ditka

There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.

~ Dick Dale

Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran. But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, 'Hi' to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.

~ Al Franken

My favorite type of pet has always been a dog. They're loyal, kind, and offer endless affection. My friend Eric says, 'The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.' Funny thought.

~ Brendon Urie

My idea of a perfect pet is a really, really big dog! Huge!

~ Emily Vancamp

I don't have a pet, but I dream of someday getting a pug dog whom I will name Croque Monsieur so that I may alternate between calling him Croque, Monsieur or his full name: Croque Monsieur. I'll more than likely only use his first and last name most often when he's been bad.

~ John Gallagher

Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.

~ Rodney Dangerfield

A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have.

~ Cesar Millan

I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.

~ Steven Wright

I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

~ Juan Gris

The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim. There is a lack of self-consciousness and a fluidity to it that is absent from most human relationships. If someone acted that way to you, you'd feel claustrophobic pretty quickly. It's a boundary violation.

~ Caroline Knapp

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

~ Alfred North Whitehead

The dog is the god of frolic.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.

~ James Thurber

My dream pet? I like a couple of them, man: monkey, I love dogs. See, tigers, I don't know - I can't be playing with something like that. A monkey, I can handle it. A dog, yeah; I would get a monkey.

~ French Montana