Dogs Quotes

Horace, like all dogs, heard dead-voices quite often, and sometimes saw their owners. The dead were all around, but living people saw them no more than they could smell most of the ten thousand aromas that surrounded them every minute of every day.

~ Stephen King

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Andy once clipped a magazine article about how black dogs are always the last to be adopted at shelters and, therefore, more likely to be put down. Which is totally Dog Racism, if you ask me.

~ Stephanie Perkins

Whoever said dogs can't speak was never interested in learning another language.

~ Mark Winik

The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since we humans programmed this vulnerability, it's our responsibility to ensure that our dogs do not suffer as a result.

~ John Bradshaw

When a dog goes bad, the fault lies with his master.

~ George R.r. Martin

Maybe part of finding what you wanted was recognizing what you didn’t want.

~ Claire Cook

They had buried him under our elm tree, they said -- yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

~ Willie Morris

Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans--the ability to make you feel valued just by being you--and it was something of a miracle to me to be on the receiving end of all that acceptance. The dog didn't care what I looked like, or what I did for a living, or what a train wreck of a life I'd led before I got her, or what we did from day to day. She just wanted to be with me, and that awareness gave me a singular sensation of delight. I kept her in a crate at night until she was housebroken, and in the mornings I'd let her up onto the bed with me. She'd writhe with joy at that. She'd wag her tail and squirm all over me, lick my neck and face and eyes and ears, get her paws all tangled in my braid, and I'd just lie there, and I'd feel those oceans of loss from my past ebbing back, ebbing away, and I'd hear myself laugh out loud.

~ Caroline Knapp

When the dogs returned, the Senator gave them treats from his pocket, and Jun Do understood that in communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes

~ Adam Johnson

The somatotype of the cat or any animal from quadruped to biped partially determines the perspective of the creature. The physiology of any given creature will alter its understanding of its environment. A close look then at the physiology of cats and dogs and one biped, in particular, the primate, should give anyone a clear reason for the biological and psychological shaping of religion. This examination of cats, dogs and then other primates, humanity's cousins, in comparison with some religious ideals, will show just how physiological perspectives would and have influenced religious dogma or cat-ma as the case may be.

~ Leviak B. Kelly

She had a voice so husky it could have pulled a dogsled, and the gun she was holding gave me a bad case of barrel envy.

~ Patrick Major Dallas Or

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

~ Mark Twain

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

~ Josh Billings

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed.For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.

~ Charles M. Schulz

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

~ Woodrow Wilson

You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

~ Dean Koontz

If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

~ Roger A. Caras

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian.

~ Linda Mccartney

The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.

~ Martin Luther

The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with that, kiss you. There are no ulterior motives with a dog, no mind games, no second-guessing, no complicated negotiations or bargains, and no guilt trips or grudges if a request is denied.

~ Caroline Knapp

Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.

~ Gene Hill

Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss, it's about takingresponsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.

~ Cesar Millan

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

~ Robert Benchley

Every dog must have his day.

~ Jonathan Swift

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

~ James Thurber

Any man with money to make the purchase may become a dog's owner. But no man --spend he ever so much coin and food and tact in the effort-- may become a dog's Master without consent of the dog. Do you get the difference? And he whom a dog once unreservedly accepts as Master is forever that dog's God.

~ Albert Payson Terhune

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.

~ Max Depree

The rooms of his apartment were full with the dog home again, convalescing. He was satisfied to know, even when she was out of sight, that somewhere in the apartment she was sleeping or eating or sitting watchfully. It was family, he guessed, more or less. Did most people want a house of living things at night, to know that in the dark around them other warm bodies slept?Such a house could even be the whole world.

~ Lydia Millet

Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay...cats were all about using people

~ Jonathan Franzen

The dogs were really keening now, like Irish widows.

~ Thomas Keneally

We have the power to build a new consensus, which rejects killing as a method for achieving results. And we can look forward to a time when the wholesale slaughter of animals in shelters is viewed as a cruel aberration of the past. We have a choice.

~ Nathan Winograd

Dogs are like that, I guess—they know how to fix you without ever saying a word.

~ Caroline George

Dogs are angels full of poop.

~ Oliver Gaspirtz

So many stories lived behind my eyes. I carried the people I hurt, the lies I told, my sick relationship with food, wherever I went. My mind was rarely grounded in the moment. My past was heavy and constant; my thoughts wouldn’t leave me alone. But when I was with the shelter dogs, I didn’t have anything to hide. Sometimes what existed behind my eyes fell away. I wasn’t bulimic or unlovable or fat or a liar. I was a part of life again. I was an observer, and to more than just the dark cyclical patterns of the mind—here was the strong, sturdy presence of another—the breath moving in and out of Angel’s chest, the beating of her heart, the force of life moving through her and through me.

~ Shannon Kopp

Most of us humans have no idea how stressful any change is for animals.

~ Colleen M. Flanagan

Animals store their fears and at times OUR fears in the body and manifest physical illnesses like we do. Like us, these fears may have occurred in infancy and are still carried in the adult body.

~ Colleen M. Flanagan

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

Dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors

~ Gabriel García Márquez