Dogs Quotes

Never did he fail to respond savagely to the chatter of the squirrel he had first met on the blasted pine.

~ Jack London

With some dogs you share a boil in the bag breakfast and maybe a blanket on a cold desert floor. Some you wouldn't leave in charge of your Grandma unless you wanted to find out just how fast the old girl could run. But, if you're very, very lucky there will be the one dog you would lay down your life for - and for me that dog is Buster.

~ Will Barrow

People always love it when you say their dogs are nice. Just shows you how out of touch they are.

~ Sue Grafton

Kurt Cilke liked dogs because they could not conspire. They could not hide hostility, and they were not cunning. They did not lie awake at night planning to rob and murder other dogs. Treachery was beyond their scope.

~ Mario Puzo

I worked all day in back ofa hot van snipping off dog balls, I can cut one more pair. (Dark City Lights)

~ Thomas Pluck

People were kind and friendly and amusing, but they thought that companionship and conversation were synonymous, and some of them had voices that jarred in your head. There was a lot to be said for dogs. They understood without telling you so, and they were always pleasing to look at, awake or asleep, like Bingo. He slept now, with little whistling snores, in his basket at the side of the fire, his stubby legs and one whiskery eyebrow twitching to the fitful tempo of his dreams.

~ Monica Dickens

Short guys with attitudes always just kind of made me laugh, like small, yippy dogs.

~ A.d. Aliwat

Macadamia nuts can be fatal to dogs, sometimes causing seizures and kidney failure.

~ John Richard Stephens

Dogs die. But dogs live, too. Right up until they die, they live. They live brave, beautiful lives. They protect their families. And love us. And make our lives a little brighter. And they don't waste time being afraid of tomorrow.

~ Dan Gemeinhart

Thrilled that Reyes and I were outside, and taking that as her cue to get her freak on, Artemis ran around like a gerbil on meth, turning occasionally to make sure we were still watching. And God help us if we weren't.

~ Darynda Jones

Qui me amat, amet et canem meum. (Who loves me will love my dog also.)

~ Bernard Of Clairvaux

. . . she is our dog. And because she is our dog, we can pick out the tiny, almost imperceptible good qualities from the ocean of terrible qualities, and we can cling to them. Because we want to love our dog.

~ Allie Brosh

You've got to have, like, a lentil for a soul to hate wiener dogs.

~ Laini Taylor

He ran from one side of the cage, and then back again, which was not very far. It was far only if you were a puppy.

~ Michael Delaware

Did I hear things, or can that little dog speak?” said Dibbler.“He says he can’t,” said Victor.Dibbler hesitated. The excitement was unhinging him a little. “Well,” he said, “I suppose he should know.

~ Terry Pratchett

He attempted to bark the order and succeeded, albeit with more of a chihuahua result than intended.

~ Jeffery Russell

When you buy a pet-store puppy, you know nothing about the health or temperament of the parents. You have no connection to the breeder of the dog, no resource to go to if you have questions or problems a few months or years from now. But perhaps most important, when you buy a pet-store puppy, you contribute to the demand for puppy-mill-bred puppies, and add to the cycle of misery of mill-owned breeding dogs.

~ Denise Flaim

I look down at my black Diablo, head on his paws. He is at my feet. He knows that he must trust to my forgiveness for his daily meat. So he wags his plumed tail and noses at my foot and I pat him gently. Affection, I tell him, is how a dog survives. Knowing how to exist without it is how a woman wrests her life into her own hands. But then it comes, it takes one by surprise. Affection and freedom and the will to risk. Everything that happened since I answered the door to Fleur was leading up to this.

~ Louise Erdrich

I just couldn't stand that goddamned yip yip yip.

~ William Gay

I'm convinced that petting a puppy is good luck.

~ Meg Donohue

I have a theory that you get the right dog, the dog you need, for a particular stage in your life.

~ Meg Donohue

I don't belong to the masses, I've been against the masses all my life, and I'm not in favour of dogs.

~ Thomas Bernhard

I liked the idea of adopting a dog that was beyond the puppy stage, a dog with an unknown span of life under his belt. It seemed only fair; he didn't know what he was getting into with me either.

~ Meg Donohue

Sometimes I worry about how attached I am to this dog. About the fact that the primary relationship of my life is with a canine. That at the end of a terrible day I look forward to nothing more than coming home and lying on the bed, under the covers, with a giant Great Dane.

~ Eve Marie Mont

I will not be my father's dog.

~ Neil Gaiman

It was like the panting of a thousand puppies.

~ Jerry Spinelli

You don't know how shallow you are, or how narcissistic, until you acquire a facial scar. On the plus side, it's so situated as to make me look tough and worldly. On the downside, I'm never kissing my dog again.

~ Rodney Ulyate

When the soul-penetrating pathos she was beaming at me failed to prevent me from continuing to put things in boxes, the helper dog became increasingly alarmed. Over the ensuing few days, she slowly descended into psychological chaos. The simple dog remained unfazed.

~ Allie Brosh

Repetitive, forceful corrections had taught this gentle dog that at a specific spot the handler would always yank the lead. Thus, each time the Newf arrived at that point, she'd freeze for a beat and close her eyes in anticipation of the impending blow. This caused her to lag, which led to another correction, which resulted in more lagging, another correction, ad infinitum.It was a classic example of canine learned helplessness, whereby a dog learns to accept abuse as a natural, inevitable consequence of living with humans. Repeated corrections had only frightened and confused the animal, and she was trying to protect herself in the only way she knew how.

~ Joel M. Mcmains

If uncertain, it's best to pass by a possibly good dog than risk injury.

~ Joel M. Mcmains

Maria, groaning for scraps, would drape his head on my feet as I ate, trying to camouflage himself as my napkin or the rug.

~ Arthur Phillips

They were as different as honesty and truth, but it takes experience to see the dissimilarities. Rocky was friendly, outgoing and boisterous; Charger was sullen, withdrawn and paranoid. Rocky liked people; Charger didn't. Rocky could trust; Charger didn't know the meaning of the word.

~ Joel M. Mcmains

In the distance, mongrel dogs were howling out the coyote portion of their ancestry. All the sounds of the night seemed to pass through a hollow tunnel of indefinite length.

~ Warren Eyster

Meanwhile, the mole goes on with its subterranean daydreams,The dogs lie around like rugs

~ Charles Wright

It is like the panting of a thousand puppies.

~ Jerry Spinelli

The Lord God had created all animals, and had chosen out the wolf to be his dog.

~ Jacob Grimm

A gunshot is the loudest sound in the universe. Especially if the bullet is coming at you.

~ Kathy Reichs

Anyone out without the excuse of a dog should be handcuffed and searched for loneliness.

~ Stephen Dunn

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole

~ Roger Caras

You're here. I'm here. I love you. I'm gonna pee all over the floor about it.

~ Jen Sincero