Dogs Quotes

By standard intelligence texts, the dogs have failed at the puzzle. I believe, by contrast that they have succeeded magnificently. They have applied a novel tool to the task. We are that tool. Dogs have learned this--and they see us as fine general-purpose tools, too: useful for protection, acquiring food, providing companionship. We solve the puzzles of closed doors and empty water dishes. In the folk psychology of dogs, we humans are brilliant enough to extract hopelessly tangled leashes from around trees; we can conjure up an endless bounty of foodstuffs and things to chew. How savvy we are in dogs' eyes! It's a clever strategy to turn to us after all. The question of the cognitive abilities of dogs is thereby transformed; dogs are terrific at using humans to solve problems, but not as good at solving problems when we're not around.

~ Alexandra Horowitz

Harriet resisted, until Tara pulled out the big move...the combination lean-against nuzzle, with a slight lick and an adoring glance. In dog-land the move had a degree of difficulty of nine point seven, and as far as I know, there is no known defense against it.

~ David Rosenfelt

He wears jeans, untucked shirts, and a Glock 19, and he has a big shaggy dog named Bob.

~ Janet Evanovich

Pearl was hurring around my apartment, sniffing everything, including Rich Beaumont and Patty Giacomin, which neither of them like much.Can you get Pearl to settle down? Paul asked.I could speak to her, but she'd continue to do what she wants, and I'd look ineffectual. My approach is to endorse everything she does.Susan said, Come here, Pearl. And Pearl went over to her, and Susan gave her a kiss on the mouth, and Pearl wagged her tail; and lapped Susan's face, and turned and went back and sniffed at Patty.

~ Robert B. Parker

When they are away, you will often look for the baby doll, but it is not always there, where it is supposed to be, where you left it. Sometimes The Baby moves it, or she takes it with her, and you have to settle for some other toy. You bring it into the living room and set it between your paws as you sleep. It helps you believe that one day you might be a real mother.

~ Terry Bain

She really talks to you, doesn't she? She asked. it's not just you talking to her. She talks BACK.hel, half the time she starts it. I said, half-defensively. I know it's weird.Well, yes, it's weird. Technically, I think it's insane. But who am I to judge? Maggie shrugged. I live in a house most people view as the setting of a horror movie waiting to happen, with an army of security ninjas and a couple dozen epileptic dogs for company. I don't think I'm qualified to pass judgement on 'weird'.

~ Mira Grant

While everyone adjusted themselves and their packs, Donna sniffed curiously at Louie's nose. Her attitude suggested she might want to make friends with the giant dog; Lou couldn't resist the temptation. Once Donna lured Louie in, she slowly, cautiously, turned about to align her hooves with Louie's head. Perhaps she didn't like dogs. Perhaps she didn't want a rival for Monty's attentions. Perhaps she was merely an impish tarkus much like the Dane himself. Cody watched as the Dane failed to grasp the gravity of his predicament. At the last moment, Cody smacked Louie's hind end, scuttling the devious donkey's murderous trap.

~ Map Whitman

That's the thing with Holy Moses: big as a house and scary as heck if you don't know him, but Charley Manson and his whole family could come parading through here and he'd give them you room key for a slice of sharp cheddar. --Ms. Fisher, The Last Stop

~ Kirt J. Boyd

A dog can express more with his tail in minutes than an owner can express with his tongue in hours.

~ Karen Davison

Mothers were much too sharp. They were like dogs. Buster always sensed when anything was out of the ordinary, and so did mothers. Mothers and dogs both had a kind of second sight that made them see into people's minds and know when anything unusual was going on.

~ Enid Blyton

I think she cared more for that bloody dog than for me, for us. And maybe that's not so stupid, looking back... maybe it is easier living on your own looking after some stupid mutt than sharing your life with other actual human beings.

~ Mark Haddon

They all knew this, but this didn't stop them from good-naturedly crowding around the front door every time it opened, every single time, despite the fact that they were never -EVER- let into the house. I loved this particularly fine thing about dogs: Despite a lifetime of denied entrance, hope never died in their hearts.

~ Jacqueline Kelly

At least with pets, and for all I know, people too, intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved, or being kind, nothing at all, less than nothing.

~ Charles Baxter

Scratching Yogi's ears Michelle says 'That's just part of his job, the comforting. That's what I mean by the bhatisvata. That he's more concerned with comforting and helping, even more than his own well-being. This is a trait that more people should encompass.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Carlton, Sydney (1949-), painter and decorator. Those who argue that bestiality should be treated with understanding had a setback in 1998 when Carlton, a married man from Bradford, was sentenced to a year in prison for having intercourse with a Staffordshire bull terrier, named Badger. His defence was that Badger had made the first move. 'I can't help it if the dog took a liking to me,' he told the court. This was not accepted.

~ William Donaldson

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

~ Ogden Nash

Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.

~ Melvin Maddocks

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

~ Diane Abbott

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.

~ Claude Shannon

I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.

~ Nafisa Joseph

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

~ Quentin Tarantino

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

~ August Strindberg

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

~ Rita Rudner

There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.

~ Angus Young

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

~ Max Eastman

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.

~ Bob Hope

Dogs are my favorite people.

~ Richard Dean Anderson

I'm an ambassador for Medical Detection dogs.

~ Lesley Nicol

You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.

~ Tim Roth

I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars.

~ Daniel Okrent

I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate.

~ Don Rickles

I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.

~ Gary Paulsen

The more I see of men, the more I like dogs.

~ Clara Bow

Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

~ Konrad Lorenz

Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible.

~ Donald Trump

The only weights I lift are my dogs.

~ Olivia Newton-John

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

~ Andy Warhol

During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.

~ Betty White