A bunch of profound, sweet, cliche, and just plain funny dog quotes
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In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog. - Edward Hoagland
One of the reasons dogs make so many friends is that they wag their tails instead of their tongues.
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. - George Bird Evans
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
I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. - Samuel Johnson
You may have a dog that won't sit up, roll over or even cook breakfast, not because she's too stupid to learn how but because she's too smart to bother. - Rick Horowitz, Chicago Tribune
To err is human, to forgive canine.
Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives. - Sue Murphy
I named my dog "Stay " so I can say "Come here, Stay. Come here, Stay. " - Steven Wright
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's. - Mark Twain
I spilled spot remover on my dog. He's gone now. - Steven Wright
I put contact lenses in my dog's eyes. They had little pictures of cats on them. Then I took one out and he ran around in circles. - Steven Wright
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
Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement. - Snoopy
No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich. - Louis Sabin
Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of ther 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
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. - Edward Abbey
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.
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
I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. - Abraham Lincoln
I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. - Will Rogers
My dog is usually pleased with what I do, because she is not infected with the concept of what I "should " be doing. - Lonzo Idolswine
I used to look at Smokey and think, "If you were a little smarter you could tell me what you were thinking, " and he'd look at me like he was saying, "If you were a little smarter, I wouldn't have to. " - Fred Jungclaus
Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job. - Franklin P Jones
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
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit. - Sir Walter Scott "The Talisman "
My little dog -- a heartbeat at my feet. - Edith Wharton
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. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. When all other friends desert, he remains. - George G Vest
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. - Robert Benchley
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
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. - Roger Caras
Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend, and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. - Mark Twain
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