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Quotations about dogs

Harry S. TrumanYou want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

 - Harry Truman

Tags:   dogs  friendship  Washington  

BuddhaA dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

 - Gautama Buddha

Tags:   dogs  good  talk  

Robert HeinleinWomen and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

 - Robert A. Heinlein

Tags:   cats  dogs  women  

Christopher HitchensOwners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.

 - Christopher Hitchens

Tags:   cats  dogs  God  

Winston ChurchillI am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

 - Winston Churchill

Tags:   cats  dogs  equality  pigs  

Mark TwainIf animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

 - Mark Twain

Tags:   cats  dogs  

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

 - Aldous Huxley

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Thomas MannThe meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no preciser name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.

 - Thomas Mann

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

 - Gilda Radner

Tags:   dogs  love  

Maurice MaeterlinckWe are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.

 - Maurice Maeterlinck

Tags:   alliance  dogs  

Maurice MaeterlinckThere is the great ancestral duty, the essential duty, stronger than death, which not even man's will and anger are able to check.

All our humble history, linked with that of the dog in our first struggles against every breathing thing, tends to prevent his forgetting it. And when, in our safer dwelling-places of to-day, we happen to punish him for his untimely zeal, he throws us a glance of astonished reproach, as though to point out to us that we are in the wrong and that, if we lose sight of the main clause in the treaty of alliance which he made with us at the time when we lived in caves, forests and fens, he continues faithful to it in spite of us and remains nearer to the eternal truth of life, which is full of snares and hostile forces.

 - Maurice Maeterlinck

Tags:   danger  dogs  duty  

Mark TwainIf you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

 - Mark Twain

Tags:   dogs  humans  

Milan KunderaDogs 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.

 - Milan Kundera

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John GroganSuch short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.

 - John Grogan

Tags:   animals  cats  dogs  pets  

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

 - Charles de Gaulle

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Dean KoontzNo matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.

 - Dean Koontz

Tags:   dogs  humans  innocence  

Where are you now, little wandering
Life, that so faithfully dwelt with us,
Played with us, fed with us, felt with us,
Years we grew fonder and fonder in?

You who but yesterday sprang to us,
Are we forever bereft of you?
And is this all that is left of you--
One little grave, and a pang to us?

 - William Hurrell Mallock

Tags:   death  dogs  

Arthur Conan DoyleA dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

 - Arthur Conan Doyle

Tags:   dogs  family  pets  

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, he will make a fool of himself too.

 - Samuel Butler

Tags:   dogs  loyalty  

To my way of thinking there's something wrong, or missing, with any person who hasn't got a soft spot in their heart for an animal of some kind. With most folks the dog stands highest as man's friend, then comes the horse, with others the cat is liked best as a pet, or a monkey is fussed over; but whatever kind of animal it is a person likes, it's all hunky-dory so long as there's a place in the heart for one or a few of them.

 - Will James

Tags:   animals  cats  dogs  horses  

When we consider how much we owe to the Dog, man's faithful friend, to the noble Horse, the patient Ox, the Cow, the Sheep, and our other domestic animals, we can not be too grateful to them: and if we cannot, like some ancient nations, actually worship them, we have perhaps fallen into the other extreme, underrate the sacredness of animal life, and treat them too much like mere machines.

 - John Lubbock

Tags:   animals  dogs  horses  

Henry Ward BeecherThe dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

 - Henry Ward Beecher

Tags:   children  dogs  

Dwight EisenhowerWhat counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

 - Dwight Eisenhower

Tags:   dogs  fighting  

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

 - Edward Hoagland

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George VestThe 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. A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his master's side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer. He will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounters with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. When all other friends desert, he remains. When riches take wings, and reputation falls to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens.

 - George Vest

Tags:   dogs  friendship  loyalty  

George VestIf fortune drives the master forth, an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him, to guard him against danger, to fight against his enemies. And when the last scene of all comes, and death takes his master in its embrace and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by the graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad, but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even in death.

 - George Vest

Tags:   death  dogs  friendship  loyalty  

Philip HamertonIf animals could speak as fabulists have feigned, the dog would be a blunt, blundering, outspoken, honest fellow, but the cat would have the rare talent of never saying a word too much.

 - Philip Hamerton

Tags:   cats  dogs  speech  words