Quotations

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.  They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no moral restraint, and they do not for all their marvelous instincts appear to know about death.  Being such wonderfully uncomplicated beings, they need us to do their worrying.  ~George Bird Evans, Troubles with Bird Dogs

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love.  For me they are the role model for being alive.  ~Gilda Radner

The dog is the only animal that has seen his god.  ~Author Unknown

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.  ~Holbrook Jackson

Dogs are miracles with paws.  ~Attributed to Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy

From the dog's point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog.  ~Mabel Louise Robinson

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.  ~Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912

My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.  ~Author Unknown

The dog is a yes-animal, very popular with people who can't afford to keep a yes-man.  ~Robertson Davies

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.  ~Max Eastman, Enjoyment of Laughter

With the exception of women, there is nothing on earth so agreeable or necessary to the comfort of man as the dog.  ~Edward Jesse, Anecdote of Dogs

I talk to him when I'm lonesome like; and I'm sure he understands.  When he looks at me so attentively, and gently licks my hands; then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes, but I never say naught thereat.  For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that.  ~W. Dayton Wedgefarth

One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why.  ~Author Unknown

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.  ~Agnes Repplier

Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.  ~Franklin P. Jones

Dogs have given us their absolute all.  We are the center of their universe.  We are the focus of their love and faith and trust.  They serve us in return for scraps.  It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.  ~Roger Caras

The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's.  ~Polish Proverb

They never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.  ~Jerome K. Jerome

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

A dog is not "almost human" and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.  ~John Holmes

Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you?  But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window.  ~Steve Bluestone

 

In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man.  ~Maurice Maeterlinck

Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.  ~Albert Payson Terhune

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

A dog can express more with his tail in seconds than his owner can express with his tongue in hours.  ~Author Unknown

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.  ~Josh Billings