Quotes about Dogs

"When a dog runs at you, whistle for him."
-Henry David Thoreau

"A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied."
-Irish Proverb

"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
-Ann Landers

"If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer."
-Alfred North Whitehead

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself."
-Josh Billings

"Yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table."
-Bible

"When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news."
-John B. Bogart

"The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic."
-Henry Ward Beecher

"Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other."
-Robert Benchley

"Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks."
-Roger Caras

"A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog - keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe."
-Peter Nivio Zarlenga

"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole."
-Roger Caras

"Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer."
-Leo Rosten

"Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job."
-Franklin P. Jones

"The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery."
-Thorstein Veblen

"Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot."
-Konrad Lorenz

"Anything a dog touches must be washed seven times, the final time in dust."
-Hadith

"If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life."
-Roger Caras

"Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar."
-Steve Allen

"Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war."
-William Shakespeare

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."
-Aldous Huxley

"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"The more I see of men, the better I like dogs."
-Madame de Stael

"The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast. [About Russia]."
-Bob Hope

"Let dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so."
-Isaac Watts

"It's like a happy hum when the kids are reading aloud to the dogs."
-Sharon Anderson

"Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves."
-Karl Kraus

"I think it's rather an insult to dogs. Men are awful: arrogant, nasty creatures."
-Michael Winner