A collection of dog-inspired quotes
~ Inspirational bits of dog wisdom ~
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I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.
- By Gilda Radner
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“No Matter how little money and how few possessions, you own, having a dog makes you rich.”
- By Louis Sabin (All About Dogs As Pets)
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“A dog is ‘almost human’ and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.”
- By John Holmes
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“A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied.”
- An Old Irish Proverb
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“A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.”
- By Ogden Nash
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“A man may smile and bid you hail
Yet wish you to the devil;
But when a good dog wags his tail,
You know he’s on the level.”
- By Unknown Author
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“Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.”
- By Agnes Sligh Turnbull
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“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
- By Charles Schulz
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“He is your friend, your partner,
your defender, your dog.
You are his life, his love, his leader. He will
be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat
of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of
such devotion.”
- By Unknown Author
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“Histories are more full of the examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”
- By Alexander Pope
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“Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of our country as Wall Street and the railroads.”
- By Harry S. Truman
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“All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.”
- By Franz Kafka (Investigations of the dog)
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“I am I because my little dog knows me”
- By Gertrude Stein
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“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace.”
- By Milan Kundera
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“Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.”
- By Sigmund Freud
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“I can train any dog in five minutes. It’s training the owner that takes longer.”
- By Barbara Woodhouse
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“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”
- By Woodrow Wilson
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“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
- By Will Rogers
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“If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.”
- By Will Rogers
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“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.”
- By Mark Twain
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“I’ve caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs.”
- By Barbara Woodhouse
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“If you want the best seat in the house… move the dog.”
- Unknown Author
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“If your dog is fat, you’re not getting enough exercise.”
- By Unknown Author
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“Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.”
- By James Thurber (And So To Medve)
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“No animal I know of can consistently be more of a friend and companion than a dog.”
- By Stanley Leinwoll
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“My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.”
- By Unknown Author
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“Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes.”
- By Gene Hill (The Dog Man)
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“One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you’re feeling blue is that he doesn’t try to find out why.”
- By Unknown Author
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“Dogs understand your moods and your thoughts, and if you are thinking unpleasant things about your dog, he will pick it up and be downhearted.”
- By Barbara Woodhouse
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“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.”
- By Andy Rooney
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“The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.”
- By Konrad Lorenz (Man Meets Dog)
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“The one absolutely unselfish friend, that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.”
- By Senator George Graham Vest
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“The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue.
- By Unknown Author
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“The dog has an enviable mind; it remembers the nice things in life and quickly blots out the nasty. “
- By Barbara Woodhouse
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“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.”
- By Bern Williams
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“To err is human, to forgive canine.”
- By Unknown Author
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“We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It’s the best deal man has ever made.”
- By M.Facklam
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“Who kicks a dog kicks his own soul towards hell”
- By Will Judy
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“There is no such thing as a difficult dog, only an inexperienced owner!!”
- By Barbara Woodhouse
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“You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself, that my father bought me. They are better than human beings, because they know but do not tell.”
- By Emily Dickinson
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“You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.”
- By Robert Louis Stevenson
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“The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.”
- By Winston Churchill
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“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not mans’.”
- By Mark Twain (In a letter to WD Howells, Apr.2, 1899)
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“The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to his level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.”
- By James Thurber
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“The greatest love is a mother’s; then a dog’s; then a sweetheart’s.”
- A Polish Proverb
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“There is no such thing as a difficult dog, only an inexperienced owner!”
- By Barbara Woodhouse
