Dog Quotations

"If your dog is fat, you aren’t getting enough exercise." --Unknown

"Some days you’re the dog; some days you’re the hydrant." --Unknown

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

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down." --Robert Benchley

"Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that’s how dogs spend their lives." —Sue Murphy

"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves."—August Strindberg

"No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation."— Fran Lebowitz

"Ever consider what they must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul—chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth!"—Anne Tyler

"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult." -- Rita Rudner

"My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That’s almost $7.00 in dog money."—Joe Weinstein

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

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."—Robert A. Heinlein

"In order to keep a true perspective of one’s importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him."—Dereke Bruce, Taipei, Taiwan

"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face." —Ben Williams

"When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem."—Edward Abbey

"Cat’s motto: No matter what you’ve done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it." ----Unknown

"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does."—Christopher Morley

"Man is a dog’s idea of what God should be."—Holbrook Jackson

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."—Andy Rooney

"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."—Unknown

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you;that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."—Mark Twain

"Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane." --Smiley Blanton

"I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."—John Steinbeck