Top Dog Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Dog quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Jandy Nelson
How will I survive this missing? How do others do it? People die all the time. Every day. Every hour. There are families all over the world staring at beds that are no longer slept in, shoes that are no longer worn. Families that no longer have to buy a particular cereal, a kind of shampoo. There are people everywhere standing in line at the movies, buying curtains, walking dogs, while inside, their hearts are ripping to shreds. For years. For their whole lives. I don't believe time heals. I don't want it to. If I heal, doesn't that mean I've accepted the world without her?
- Jandy Nelson
Collection: Dog
Image of Tracey Ullman
Did you know David Letterman was offered millions of dollars to do a commercial for dog food?
- Tracey Ullman
Collection: Dog
Image of Gordon Korman
The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down.
- Gordon Korman
Collection: Dog
Image of Bernhard Schlink
Sometimes I had the feeling that all of us in his family were like pets to him. The dog you take for a walk, the cat you play with and that curls up in your lap, purring, to be stroked - you can be fond of them, you can even need them to a certain extent, and nonetheless the whole thing - buying pet food, cleaning up the cat box, and trips to the vet - is really too much. Your life is elsewhere.
- Bernhard Schlink
Collection: Dog
Image of Mark Doty
To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation, a mutual agreement though the human being holds most of the cards.
- Mark Doty
Collection: Dog
Image of Noel Fielding
All my friends got dogs and cats for Christmas, and I got a starfish called Roy. I used to take him down to the park on a lead.
- Noel Fielding
Collection: Dog
Image of Francis Thompson
A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.
- Francis Thompson
Collection: Dog
Image of Meg Rosoff
Fate is trying to kill me. I miss my dog. What's a doctor going to say? You're not ill, you're mad as a muffin? They'll either lock me up or tell me to get a grip and no one will believe the truth anyway.
- Meg Rosoff
Collection: Dog
Image of T.C. Boyle
Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why not be in the park with the bums passing a short dog? Why pay taxes, why get educated? Of course literature is an escape. You have to fill the hours.
- T.C. Boyle
Collection: Dog
Image of Martha Plimpton
Woke up this morning to the incredible news that I was nominated for an Emmy, and a shower full of dog poop. Apparently my dog is so excited, she has explosive diarrhea. I truly could not be more thankful to the Emmy voters for including me in this brilliant company of extraordinary women. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go clean up an enormous amount of dog poop out of my shower. Yay!
- Martha Plimpton
Collection: Dog
Image of Gene Hill
His head on my knee can heal my human hurts. His presence by my side is protection against my fears of dark and unknown things. He has promised to wait for me... whenever... wherever-in case I need him. And I expect I will-as I always have. He is just my dog.
- Gene Hill
Collection: Dog
Image of Gene Hill
I can't imagine living in a house without a couple of dogs. If I ever got out of bed at night and didn't have to step over a Labrador or two or three, or move one off the covers so I could turn over, my nights would be more restless and the demons that wait in the dark for me would be less easily fended.
- Gene Hill
Collection: Dog
Image of Gene Hill
Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.
- Gene Hill
Collection: Dog
Image of Gene Hill
He is my other eyes that can see above the clouds; my other ears that hear above the winds. He is the part of me that can reach out into the sea. He has told me a thousand times over that I am his reason for being; by the way he rests against my leg; by the way he thumps his tail at my smallest smile; by the way he shows his hurt when I leave without taking him. (I think it makes him sick with worry when he is not along to care for me.)
- Gene Hill
Collection: Dog
Image of Gene Hill
No man can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned by a dog.
- Gene Hill
Collection: Dog
Image of Gene Hill
We never really own a dog as much as she owns us.
- Gene Hill
Collection: Dog
Image of Gene Hill
He has taught me the meaning of devotion. With him, I know a secret comfort and a private peace. He has brought me understanding where before I was ignorant.
- Gene Hill
Collection: Dog
Image of Tony Bennett
Sometimes the teacher would tell me that if you're singing a love song and you just don't feel it with a person or something you've experienced, just think of a dog or cat that you love.
- Tony Bennett
Collection: Dog
Image of Robert Falcon Scott
With great care we might have a dog's chance, but no more.
- Robert Falcon Scott
Collection: Dog
Image of John Derbyshire
Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to commerce as was the scorpion in Aesop to the dog on whose back he crossed the river. They will destroy commerce and establish socialism, even if it kills them, because that is their nature.
- John Derbyshire
Collection: Dog
Image of Ilona Andrews
When you walk a dog on a short leash, she's close enough to bite you.
- Ilona Andrews
Collection: Dog
Image of John Selden
He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.
- John Selden
Collection: Dog
Image of Robert Anton Wilson
The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Collection: Dog
Image of Dodie Smith
Many dogs can understand almost every word humans say, while humans seldom learn to recognize more than half a dozen barks, if that. And barks are only a small part of the dog language. A wagging tail can mean so many things. Humans know that it means a dog is pleased, but not what a dog is saying about his pleasedness.
- Dodie Smith
Collection: Dog
Image of Paula McLain
Dogs are easy. If their tails are up and their eyes are soft, you're in.
- Paula McLain
Collection: Dog
Image of Bruce R. McConkie
What does it matter if a few barking dogs snap at the heels of the weary travelers? ... The caravan moves on
- Bruce R. McConkie
Collection: Dog
Image of Blaize Clement
I always see to the dogs first and leave the cats and the occasional birds and rabbits and hamsters for later. It isn't that I play favorites, it's just that dogs are needier than other pets. Leave a dog alone for very long and it'll start going a little nuts. Cats, on the other hand, try to give you the impression that they didn't even notice you were gone. Oh, were you out? they'll say, I didn't notice. Then they'll raise their tails to show you their little puckered anuses and walk away.
- Blaize Clement
Collection: Dog
Image of Blaize Clement
Heads of warring nations could learn a lot about how to achieve lasting peace by watching dogs and cats who live in the same house.
- Blaize Clement
Collection: Dog
Image of Allison Glock
Riding trails with your dog restores a bond lost in some evolutionary belch. You travel at the same speed, over the same terrain, neither of you slowing to compensate for the other. You're equal playmates with mud in your teeth.
- Allison Glock
Collection: Dog
Image of Ed O'Neill
When I read the pilot for Married with Children, it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. Hed come home from work, and the wife would maybe say I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway. And he would say Fine, whats for dinner?
- Ed O'Neill
Collection: Dog
Image of Amy Jenkins
Oh I believe in loving cats and dogs and children and parents – sometimes – but I don’t believe in romantic love. Of course, there’s the momentary rush of hormones and chemicals that encourages us to mate, but it’s biology – it’s no more inherently mystical than the nicotine in that cigarette you’re smoking
- Amy Jenkins
Collection: Dog
Image of Thorstein Veblen
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery
- Thorstein Veblen
Collection: Dog
Image of Gary L. Francione
Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.
- Gary L. Francione
Collection: Dog
Image of Anthony Minghella
I'm interested in stories which insist on a dog fails-to-eat-dog kind of world. I hate misanthropy, want to believe that there's a possibility that we might all be redeemed, that hope deferred makes the soul sick, that our humanity is fragile, funny, common, crazy, full of the longing for love, the failure of love.
- Anthony Minghella
Collection: Dog
Image of Henry Kirke White
I, a Laconian dog, can bite again: Yes, I can make the Daunian tiger flee, Much more a bragging, foul-mouth'd whelp like thee.
- Henry Kirke White
Collection: Dog
Image of Fanny Fern
Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe.
- Fanny Fern
Collection: Dog
Image of Brooke Astor
If you love to read, if you love nature and if you have a dog, you've got it made.
- Brooke Astor
Collection: Dog
Image of Charles M. Schulz
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
Collection: Dog
Image of Marisha Pessl
Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things. - Hannah Schneider
- Marisha Pessl
Collection: Dog
Image of Paul Reiser
Get a good dog. We have not picked up food in the kitchen in 15 years.
- Paul Reiser
Collection: Dog
Image of Albert Brooks
Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It wont be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it.
- Albert Brooks
Collection: Dog
Image of P. J. O'Rourke
Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
- P. J. O'Rourke
Collection: Dog
Image of Sarah Strohmeyer
I focused on the passing houses filled with couples who’d somehow survived this teenage craziness of ‘he likes her but she likes him and he likes somebody else, you just can’t win.’ How did they do it? How did they end up in their golden, warm and cozy living rooms with their 2.3 children and dogs and cats? Because getting from where I was to where they were seemed millions of light years away.
- Sarah Strohmeyer
Collection: Dog
Image of Thomas Bernhard
People keep a dog and are ruled by this dog, and even Schopenhauer was ruled in the end not by his head, but by his dog. This fact is more depressing than any other.
- Thomas Bernhard
Collection: Dog
Image of Alexei Sayle
Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.
- Alexei Sayle
Collection: Dog
Image of Andy Roddick
My serve has killed a small dog ... I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!
- Andy Roddick
Collection: Dog
Image of Brian Schweitzer
If I stay in Washington for more than 72 hours, I have to bathe myself in the same stuff I use when my dog gets into a fight with a skunk.
- Brian Schweitzer
Collection: Dog
Image of Allan Pease
A real man would never cry in public unless he was watching a movie in which a heroic dog died to save its master.Or if Heidi klum unbuttoned her blouse. Or he accidently dropped a full case of beer.
- Allan Pease
Collection: Dog
Image of Albert Payson Terhune
Soon or late, every dog's master's memory becomes a graveyard; peopled by wistful little furry ghosts that creep back unbidden, at times, to a semblance of their olden lives.
- Albert Payson Terhune
Collection: Dog
Image of Albert Payson Terhune
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
Collection: Dog