Dog Lover Quotes

• Dogs never lie about love.

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

  Friendship, Dog, Lying

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (2010). “The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving: How Dogs Have Captured Our Hearts for Thousands of Years”, Harper Collins

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• 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

  Letting Go, Dog, Stress

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

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• In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.

  George Graham Vest

  Dog, Selfish, Ungrateful

  "Best Speech; Faithful, Even in Death" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. April 18, 1999.

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• If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

  Roger Caras

  Dog, Animal, May

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

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• Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog.

  Douglas Malloch

  Friendship, Dog, Hurt

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• The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Funny, Dog, People

  Letter to John Forster, 1850.

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• A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

  Josh Billings

  Love, Friendship, Dog

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• The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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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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• They [dogs] 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

  Funny, Dog, Silly

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.68, Jerome K. Jerome

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• 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

  Dog, Nature, Silly

  Edward Hoagland (1976). “Red Wolves and Black Bears”, Random House Incorporated

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

  Andy Rooney

  Inspirational, Funny, Dog

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• Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

  Roger Caras

  Life, Dog, Sorry

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• We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.

  Roger Caras

  Friendship, Dog, Lessons

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

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• Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Prayer, Heart

  Dean Koontz (2007). “False Memory”, p.80, Bantam

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• There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog

  Konrad Lorenz

  Friendship, Dog, Broken

  Konrad Lorenz (2003). “King Solomon's Ring”, p.111, Routledge

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• The dog is the god of frolic.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dog, War, Animal

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• Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around.

  Roger Caras

  Animal, People, Interest

  Roger A. Caras (1993). “A Dog Is Listening: The Way Some of Our Closest Friends View Us”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Dogs love company. They place it first on their short list of needs.

  J. R. Ackerley

  Friendship, Dog, Lists

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• Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.

  Iris Murdoch

  Dog, Cat, Different

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction: Conversations with Iris Murdoch”, p.155, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• I am as confounded by dogs as I am indebted to them.

  Roger Caras

  Dog, Indebted

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

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• The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.

  Plato

  Dog, Opposites, People

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• Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.

  Edmund Burke

  Dog, Animal, Creation

  Edmund Burke (1792). “Works”, p.130

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• The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.

  T. S. Eliot

  Dog, Play, Usual

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.215, Faber & Faber

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• Try throwing a ball just once for a dog. It would be like eating only one peanut or potato chip. Try to ignore the importuning of a Golden Retriever who has brought you his tennis ball, the greatest treasure he possesses!

  Roger Caras

  Dog, Greatest Treasure, Tennis

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