Canine Quotes - Page 4

• Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull

  Life, Dog, Pet

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• 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

  Dog, Silly, Race

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Life, Basketball

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.135, Best Books on

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• We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

  George Eliot

  Dog, Live Life, Animal

  "Puppy Love: new BBC4 comedy explores the UK's canine compulsion" by Joanna Scanlan & Vicki Pepperdine, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2014.

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• Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

  Anatole France

  Love, Inspiring, Dog

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Dog, Three, Puppy

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.54, Bloomsbury Publishing

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  Ever consider what pets 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

  Funny, Dog, Mean

  Anne Tyler (1991). “Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels”, Outlet

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  The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Men, Animal

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1960). “Mark Twain-Howells Letters: The Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910”, Belknap Press

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• No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

  Christopher Morley

  Dog, Appreciation, Silly

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  The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

  Andy Rooney

  Inspirational, Funny, Dog

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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 man.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Inspiring, Thankful

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 16, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their 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

  Faith, Dog, Animal

  Roger A. Caras (1982). “A Celebration of Dogs”, Crown

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• There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

  Bernard Williams

  Happiness, Dog, Nature

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• People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

  August Strindberg

  Funny, Dog, Humor

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• The more one gets to know of men, the more one values dogs.

  Alphonse Toussenel

  Dog, Men, Knows

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• Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.

  Albert Payson Terhune

  Dog, Differences, Stranger

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• With the exception of women, there is nothing on earth so agreeable or necessary to the comfort of man as the dog.

  Edward Jesse

  Funny, Dog, Men

  Edward Jesse (1860). “Lectures on Natural History: Delivered at the "Fishermen's Home," Brighton”, p.47

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• Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience.

  Jon Winokur

  Funny, Dog, Play

  Jon Winokur (1993). “Mondo Canine”, Plume

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• You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.

  Emily Dickinson

  Dog, Hills, Companion

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.404, Harvard University Press

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• 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.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Hope, Dog, Yesterday

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• 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.

  Walter Scott

  Dog, Animal, Toil

  Sir Walter Scott (1871). “The Talisman. Chronicles of Canongate (1st series)”, p.258

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• Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Dog, Humanity, Pet

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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.

  Jerry Smith

  Dog, Men, Wish

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• Children are for people who can't have dogs.

  Jerry Smith

  Dog, Children, People

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• Every boy should have two things: a dog and a mother who lets him have one

  Robert Benchley

  Mother, Dog, Animal

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