Top Dog Quotes Collection - Page 2

Discover a curated collection of Dog quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category. Page 2 provides more Dog quotes.

Image of Albert Payson Terhune
I have learned, as has many another better writer, to summon inspiration to my call as soon as I begin my day's stint, and not to hang around waiting for it. Inspiration is merely a pretty phrase for the zest to work. And it can be cultivated by anyone who has the patience to try. Inspiration that will not come at its possessor's summons is like a dog that cannot be trained to obey. The sooner both are gotten rid of, the better.
- Albert Payson Terhune
Collection: Dog
Image of Albert Payson Terhune
No breeder is above catering to intelligent praise of his dog.
- Albert Payson Terhune
Collection: Dog
Image of Brian D. McLaren
The church latched on to that old doctrine of original sin like a dog to a stick, and before you knew it, the whole gospel got twisted around it. Instead of being God’s big message of saving love for the whole world, the gospel became a little bit of secret information on how to solve the pesky legal problem of original sin.
- Brian D. McLaren
Collection: Dog
Image of Kimora Lee Simmons
Be a gold-medal multitasker. You should be able to discuss the new Ludacris video while correcting the merchandising spreadsheets, picking the right shade of snakeskin for next season's mini-purses and catching the dog at the same time!
- Kimora Lee Simmons
Collection: Dog
Image of George Allen
For a good life: Work like a dog. Eat like a horse. Think like a fox. And play like a rabbit.
- George Allen
Collection: Dog
Image of Tad Williams
Weak dogs become bones for other, stronger dogs.
- Tad Williams
Collection: Dog
Image of Wei Wu Wei
Do you realise that when you give a schilling to a beggar you are giving it to yourself?Do you realise that when you help a dog over a stile you yourself are being helped?Do you realise when you kick a man when he is down, you are kicking yourslef?Give him another kick, you deserve it!
- Wei Wu Wei
Collection: Dog
Image of Mencius
Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.
- Mencius
Collection: Dog
Image of Nelson Rockefeller
No man can hope to be elected in his state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathan's Famous.
- Nelson Rockefeller
Collection: Dog
Image of John Wilmot
I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.
- John Wilmot
Collection: Dog
Image of Ice T
Dog's just want to sniff an ass and eat some food.
- Ice T
Collection: Dog
Image of Michael Ian Black
There is something about the human condition. I don't think dogs are like "If only I was a poodle instead of a golden retriever, I'd be totally happy." Dogs are happy with who they are.
- Michael Ian Black
Collection: Dog
Image of Guy Davenport
When Heraclitus said that everything passes steadily along, he was not inciting us to make the best of the moment, an idea unseemly to his placid mind, but to pay attention to the pace of things. Each has its own rhythm: the nap of a dog, the procession of the equinoxes, the dances of Lydia, the majestically slow beat of the drums at Dodona, the swift runners at Olympia.
- Guy Davenport
Collection: Dog
Image of Stevie Smith
O happy dogs of England, Bark well at errand boys, If you lived anywhere else, You would not be allowed to make such an infernal noise.
- Stevie Smith
Collection: Dog
Image of Cinda Williams Chima
Haven't you heard about me?" he said, with a tight smile. "I'm really a very dangerous person." And he did look dangerous until he said, "Look, could you watch Dog for me while I'm gone? I can't take him where I'm going.
- Cinda Williams Chima
Collection: Dog
Image of Peter Weiss
We've got rights the right to starve We've got jobs waiting for work We're all brothers lousy and dirty We're all free and equal to die like dogs
- Peter Weiss
Collection: Dog
Image of Ivan Pavlov
When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary glands grows weaker and weaker and finally drops to zero.
- Ivan Pavlov
Collection: Dog
Image of Connie Willis
You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you share in our sorrows and rejoice with us in our triumphs, the truest friend we ever have known, a better friend than we deserve. You have thrown in your lot with us, through thick and thin, on battlefield and hearthrug, refusing to leave your master even when death and destruction lie all around. Ah, noble dog, you are the furry mirror in which we see our better selves reflected, man as he could be, unstained by war or ambition, unspoilt by-
- Connie Willis
Collection: Dog
Image of Connie Willis
To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.
- Connie Willis
Collection: Dog
Image of Connie Willis
A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand Design involving the entire course of history and all of time and space that, for some unfathomable reason, chose to work out its designs with cats and croquet mallets and penwipers, to say nothing of the dog. And a hideous piece of Victorian artwork. And us.
- Connie Willis
Collection: Dog
Image of Connie Willis
One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.
- Connie Willis
Collection: Dog
Image of Francesca Lia Block
You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldn’t go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs.
- Francesca Lia Block
Collection: Dog
Image of Richard Brautigan
There was something dead in my heart. I tried to figure out what it was by the strength of the smell. I knew that it was not a lion or a sheep or a dog. Using logical deduction, I came to the conclusion that it was a mouse. I had a dead mouse in my heart.
- Richard Brautigan
Collection: Dog
Image of Gail Caldwell
Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become as locked into yours as the quietest and kindest of marriages.
- Gail Caldwell
Collection: Dog
Image of Michael Leunig
When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with salt and let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird fly in the hole and sing a simple song like a tiny bell and let it ring.
- Michael Leunig
Collection: Dog
Image of Norman Rockwell
If a picture wasn't going very well I'd put a puppy dog in it, always a mongrel, you know, never one of the full bred puppies. And then I'd put a bandage on its foot... I liked it when I did it, but now I'm sick of it.
- Norman Rockwell
Collection: Dog
Image of Tara Brach
Imagine you are walking in the woods and you see a small dog sitting by a tree. As you approach it, it suddenly lunges at you, teeth bared. You are frightened and angry. But then you notice that one of its legs is caught in a trap. Immediately your mood shifts from anger to concern: You see that the dog's aggression is coming from a place of vulnerability and pain. This applies to all of us. When we behave in hurtful ways, it is because we are caught in some kind of trap. The more we look through the eyes of wisdom at ourselves and one another, the more we cultivate a compassionate heart.
- Tara Brach
Collection: Dog
Image of Ha Jin
You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.
- Ha Jin
Collection: Dog
Image of Jennifer Armintrout
One minute she acts like she wants to be with me and I'm the one rejecting her. The next, she's got this barbed wire fence and barking dogs around her, like I can't even ask her the simplest questions." "And here I was assuming you didn't care about her." Stabbing his fingers through his hair, he groaned, "I don't!" "And you make it perfectly clear." Men. Idiots.
- Jennifer Armintrout
Collection: Dog
Image of Stanley Bing
"Hi," I said. She came over, licked my hand discreetly, allowed herself to be scratched for a time, chased her tail in a dignified circle, lay down again. I remember thinking: "There are times God puts a choice in front of you." I often had such thoughts back then. We took the dog.
- Stanley Bing
Collection: Dog
Image of Solomon Northup
Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!
- Solomon Northup
Collection: Dog
Image of Muddy Waters
Ain't nobody's business, if I bark like a dog.
- Muddy Waters
Collection: Dog
Image of Jon Katz
Dogs are voiceless ... a critical part of having dogs is emotional responsibility: learning how to understand them and, when necessary, to speak and act on their behalf.
- Jon Katz
Collection: Dog
Image of Jon Katz
Dogs are born knowing exactly what they want to do: eat, scratch, roll in disgusting stuff, sniff and squabble with other dogs, roam, sleep, have sex. Little of this is what we want them to do, of course. We ask them to sit, stay, smell peasant, practice abstinence, and be accommodating.
- Jon Katz
Collection: Dog
Image of Jon Katz
I am lucky in marriage and in dogs.
- Jon Katz
Collection: Dog
Image of Sara Paretsky
When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.
- Sara Paretsky
Collection: Dog
Image of Heraclitus
Dogs bark at what they don't understand.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Dog
Image of Julie Bowen
I use an app called ChoreMonster. The kids earn points for brushing teeth or picking up the dog poop. It's genius.
- Julie Bowen
Collection: Dog
Image of Jeanne DuPrau
It’s for my God, the god of dogs, and snakes and dust mites and albino bears and Siamese twins, the god of stars and starships and other dimensions, the god who loves everyone and makes everything marvelous.
- Jeanne DuPrau
Collection: Dog
Image of P.B. Kerr
The bone won't come to the dog. It's the dog that goes to the bone.
- P.B. Kerr
Collection: Dog
Image of Boyd Rice
Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any ping pong game or chess match? Of course not. It is a philosophical abstraction, something nowhere to be found in nature.
- Boyd Rice
Collection: Dog
Image of Harriet Tubman
If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
- Harriet Tubman
Collection: Dog
Image of Daniel Pinkwater
The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.
- Daniel Pinkwater
Collection: Dog
Image of Daniel Pinkwater
The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism, Dynamic Double-Dog Realism, Ishkabibbleism, and Mama, which is like Dada only nicer.
- Daniel Pinkwater
Collection: Dog
Image of Carolyn Parkhurst
The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there when we think we are alone. Think of what they could tell us. They sit on the laps of presidents. They see acts of love and violence, quarrels and feuds, and the secret play of children. If they could tell us everything they have seen, all of the gaps of our lives would stitch themselves together.
- Carolyn Parkhurst
Collection: Dog
Image of Carolyn Parkhurst
The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses.
- Carolyn Parkhurst
Collection: Dog
Image of Carolyn Parkhurst
I sing of a woman with ink on her hands and pictures hidden beneath her hair. I sing of a dog with skin like velvet pushed the wrong way.I sing of the shape a fallen body makes in the dirt beneath a tree, and I sing of an ordinary man who is wanted to know things no human being could tell him.This is the true beginning.
- Carolyn Parkhurst
Collection: Dog