More Dog Quotations

"A dog's bark may be worse than his bite, but everyone prefers his
bark."
-- Anonymous

"There's just something about dogs that makes you feel good. You come
home, they're thrilled to see you. They're good for the ego."
-- Janet Schnellman

"A good dog deserves a good bone."
-- Proverb

"We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security,
and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs."
-- Roger Caras

"A watchdog is a dog kept to guard your home, usually by sleeping where
a burglar would awaken the household by falling over him."
-- Anonymous

"The dog has got more fun out of man than man has got out of the dog,
for man is more laughable of the two animals."
--James Thurber

"A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, big or small, young or old.
He doesn't care if you're not smart, not popular, not a good
joke-teller, not the best athlete, not the best-looking person. To your
dog, you are the greatest, the smartest, the nicest human being who was
ever born. You are his friend and protector."
-- Louis Sabin

"Old dogs, like old shoes, are comfortable. They might be a bit out of
shape and a little worn around the edges, but they fit well."
-- Bonnie Wilcox

"The dog has seldom pulled man up to his level of sagity, but man has
frequently dragged the dog down to his."
-- James Thurber

"The greatest 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

"Every boy who has a dog should also have a mother, so the dog can be
fed regularly."
-- Anonymous

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight--it's
the size of the fight in the dog."
-- President Dwight Eisenhower

"Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the
overflow and surplus of the world's worship."
-- Ambrose Bierce

"The only 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."
-- George Graham Vest

"Don't make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans, or they'll
treat you like dogs."
-- Martha Scott

"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."
-- Mark Twain

"Dogs drool, bitches rule!"

"A dog is a dog except when he is facing you. Then he is Mr. Dog."
-- Haitian Farmer

"Man is a dogs ideal of what God should be."
-- Holbrook Jackson, 1874, English Journalist.

"Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you."
-- Austin O'Malley, 1858-1932, American Oculist.

"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of
friends."
-- Alexander Pope, 1688-1744, English Poet.

"When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary."
-- Honore de Balzac, 1799-1850, French Novelist.

"If dogs could talk, perhaps we'd find it just as hard to get along
with them as we do people."
-- Karel Capek, 1890-1938, Czech Journalist.

"Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your
dog would go in."
-- Mark Twain.

"When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her
trunk and go home to mama."
-- Mark Twain.

"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."
-- Ogden Nash

"Both humans and dogs love to play well in adulthood, and individuals
from both species occasionally display evidence of having a
conscience."
-- John Winokur, American Writer

"The great pleasure of a dog is that you 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

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, "The first to welcome,
foremost to defend."
-- Lord Byron, an epitaph for his dog Boatswain.

"Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as
Wall Street and the railroads."
-- Harry S. Truman

"God ... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to
watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking,
that it could not have been made better."
-- Rainer Maria Rilke

"A dog is like an eternal Peter Pan, a child who never grows old and
who therefore is always available to love and be loved."
-- Aaron Katcher, American Educator and Psychiatrist

"Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend."
-- Corey Ford, American writer

"My dog can bark like a Congressman, fetch like an aide, beg like a
press secretary, and play dead like a receptionist when the phone
rings."
-- Gerold Solomon, US Congressman

"Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"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, English humorist

"They are better than human beings, because they know but do not tell."
-- Emily Dickenson

"The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse. "
-- Josh Billings.

"A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get
mad himself."
- -George D. Prentice 1802-1870 American Journalist & Humorist.

"Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you."
-- Francois Rabelais, 1495-1583, French Humorist.

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where
they went."
-- Will Rogers

"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"
-- M. Acklam

"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."
-- Sigmund Freud

"The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead
of his tongue."
-- Harry Falk

"Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current
events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of
late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are
often continued in the next yard."
-- Dave Barry

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