Dogs Quotes

For people with patience, time with a dog is a little slice of heaven.

~ J.j. Brown

There is nothing truer in this world than the love of a good dog.

~ Mira Grant

An open mind and helpful hands can do much to change a dog's future.

~ Mary Debono

Dogs have always provided a special kind of love and companionship that I experience only some of the time with humans. They have a strong sense of character and live the way we ought to: dogs never compare you to your sister nor make judgments in her favor. Dogs never know what is coming and so live purely in the moment, savoring the good, doing their best to endure the bad--and they offer up this miraculous example so that we can learn from it.

~ Linda Gray Sexton

She is my Soul Dog and I totally get it now.

~ Christy Bright

Having another creature absolutely committed to me is a big boost to my ego, makes me feel like the king of my castle. But its no way for a dog to live.

~ Michael Morse

Don't always carry your Toy dog. Small dogs have four on the floor and they can use them.

~ Darlene Arden

None of us mentioned An Evening of Long Goodbyes, whose race had been so catastrophic that, by the end, neither Frank nor I could summon the will to gloat. He had begun badly, getting his head stuck in the gate and having to be extricated by the stewards, and continued with a series of humiliating and distinctly uncanine trips and stumbles, disgracing himself beyond redemption in the third lap, when his muzzle came off and, to the boos of the crowd, he abandoned the race to leap over the hoardings and snatch a hot dog from the hand of a small boy.

~ Paul Murray

I don’t see Number Four though—oh.” Number Four, wearing an unflattering chartreuse jacket, was sitting alone on the chewed-up grass, despondently licking his testicles. “Hmm, I don’t know, Bel . .

~ Paul Murray

Dogs are our link to Paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. 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

Horace, like all dogs, heard dead-voices quite often, and sometimes saw their owners.

~ Stephen King

When was the last time someone was so overjoyed to see you, so brimming with love and affection that they literally ran to greet you? A dog will do that for you--ten, twenty, thirty times a day.

~ Lionel Fisher

There's a world of difference between a dog that is off the leash and a dog that is trained to be off the leash.

~ Don Sullivan

It just goes to show, never say never, or the next thing you know, you’ll be doing what you said you never would, owning a dog you swore you didn’t want and walking (or carrying) a tiny, totally enchanting little dog on a rhinestone-studded pink leash.

~ Danielle Steel

Lucky ain’t a puppy no more and he don’t bark for just any old reason. It takes a mailman, a squirrel, a car, a bird, a blowing leaf, or a tumbling scrap of paper to get him stirred up now.

~ Sandra Kring

A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

Whatever we decide we don't want in life (whether it's dating, houses, neighborhoods, jobs, partners, or dogs), the fates usually intervene to open our eyes and prove us wrong.

~ Danielle Steel

I had a dream about you last night... in it, we wondered why dogs come in packs but you can't pack dogs.

~ Marshall Ramsay

Because no one ever listens to the dog.

~ Dori Hillestad Butler

Sometimes I think I like dogs more than I like humans. The only time a dog has ever betrayed me... was by dying.

~ José N. Harris

The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.

~ M.k. Clinton

I knelt down and hugged the furry monster for a while. If it was too tight, Ghost didn't seem to mind. He wagged his tail and whined a little, sensing the hurt that I felt. Dogs are truly the best of companions. You don't need to explain. They know as much as they need to know, and they are loyal no matter what sins you've committed.

~ Jonathan Maberry

I was used to heat but this place was so dry the trees were bribing the dogs.

~ Irvine Welsh

MANY DOGS RUN WILD IN THE CITY.SOME ARE ABANDONED BY THEIR OWNERSAND OTHERS ARE BORN TO LOST DOGS.STRAYS HAVE A LIMITED LIFE EXPECTANCYEVEN WHEN THEY BAND TOGETHER IN PACKS.THEY ARE PREY TO DISEASE, PARASITES,WEATHER AND AUTOMOBILES.THEY TEND TO BE FRIGHTENED AND VICIOUS.THEY ARE UNABLE TO PROTECT THEMSELVESOR ANYONE ELSE.

~ Jenny Holzer

Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress.

~ Louis Sabin

Dogs are owned for their loyalty, but men are owned only because of their stupidity.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Dogs are masters of creating emotionally safe space just by being themselves. ... it is as if something deep within our souls resonates with their energy, their unwavering unconditional love and unbridled joy to be in our presence, their undivided loyalty, and complete trust in us. Dogs make us feel special, and teach us by example to relish simple pleasures and live totally in the moment. They teach us there is only now and only who you are, who you are with, and what you are doing right then–andwhat could be better than to sniff the wind and be in the company of those you love?

~ Val Silver

She was tremendously fond of Ralph. Not hounded by love the way some women were. With Crighton she had been teased endlessly by the idea of it, but with Ralph it was more straightforward. Again not love, more like the feelings you would have for a favorite dog (and, no, she would never have said such a thing to him. Some people, a lot of people, didn't understand how attached one could be to a dog.)

~ Kate Atkinson

I wish dogs understood: 'We're going in five minutes.

~ Gregor Collins

A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

They're not poodles, they're art.

~ Rachael Leigh

Before Elfrida Phipps left London for good and moved to the country, she made a trip to Battersea Dogs' Home, and returned with a canine companion. It took a good, and heart-rending, half hour of searching, but as soon as she saw him, sitting very close to the bars of his kennel and gazing up at her with dark and melting eyes, she knew he was the one. She did not want a large animal, nor did she relish the idea of a yapping lap dog. This one was exactly the right size. Dog size.

~ Rosamunde Pilcher

Dogs are lonesome creatures who needs a someone that will love him for eternity, Once they've found the one, He will protect it, believing that he is the only one who could accept him

~ Ammiel Josiah Monterde

See with your heart, not just your eyes

~ Linda M. Hueftlein

Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?

~ Mary Oliver

And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, no doubt many of you do also. It is almost a failure of will, a failure of love, to let them grow old—or so it feels. We would do anything to keep them with us, and to keep them young. The one gift we cannot give.

~ Mary Oliver

Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbred courtesies.

~ Robin Hobb

It does no good to bark at the television,I said. I’ve tried it too. So he stopped.

~ Mary Oliver

The big one was at least cute, and as annoying as she was, you couldn't get mad at a golden retriever.

~ Chelsea Handler

Finally, especially in the case of medical-response canines and those that serve handlers with invisible disabilities, it's not merely the necessity of the dog that's questioned but also the existance of the disability itself. And for these partnerships, some of the greatest problems arise.

~ Susannah Charleson