Dog Training Quotes

• Understanding your dog and knowing how to control him, develop his potentials, and resolve behavior problems, emotional conflicts and frustrations are no less essential than love and respect.

  Michael Fox

  Dog, Frustration, Emotional

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• There is the little matter of disposal of droppings in which the cat is far ahead of its rivals. The dog is somehow thrilled by what he or any of his friends have produced, hates to leave it, adores smelling it, and sometimes eats it.

  Paul Gallico

  Dog, Hate, Cat

  Paul Gallico (1972). “Honorable Cat”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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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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• I can train any dog in 5 minutes. It's training the owner that takes longer.

  Barbara Woodhouse

  Dog, Training, Minutes

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• Dogs like to obey. It gives them security.

  James Herriot

  Dog, Giving, Training

  James Herriot (2012). “The Lord God Made Them All: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet”, p.246, Pan Macmillan

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• A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Funny, Dog, Humorous

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• The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Dog, Humor

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.13, University of Georgia Press

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• I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.

  Gilda Radner

  Dog, Unconditional Love, Animal

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Animal, Car

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.118, Crown Archetype

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• Never trust a dog to watch your food.

  Saint Patrick

  Dog, Watches, Never Trust

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• Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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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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• Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Funny, Dog

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• And then there's the personal question so many of Lassie's fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course he is-but, then, he's the one who paid for it.

  Julia Glass

  Dog, Training, Personal Question

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• 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

  Dog, Humorous, Animal

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 14

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• 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.
  
  
  
  Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

  Agnes Repplier

  Dog, Heart, Animal

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• Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Friendship, God, Dog

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

  Bernard Williams

  Happiness, Dog, Nature

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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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• You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

  Nora Ephron

  Love, Marriage, Dog

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.80, Vintage

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• I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspiring, Dog, Cat

  Attributed in "Animal century" by Mark Gold (, 1998.

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• I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Thinking, Nuts

  John Steinbeck (2012). “The Portable Steinbeck”, p.42, Penguin

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• Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

  Milan Kundera

  Jealousy, Dog, Evil

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

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