Dog Quotes - Page 11

• You can say any fool thing to a dog and the dog will just give you this look that says, 'My GOSH, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!

  Dave Barry

  Giving, Intelligence, Looks

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• Modern houses are so small we've had to train our dog to wag its tail up and down and not sideways.

  Unknown

  Funny, House, Tails

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• Our dog chases people on a bike. We've had to take it off him.

  Winston Churchill

  People, Bike

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• He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, Reading, Doe

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• Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Mad, Degrees, Towns

  Oliver Goldsmith (1837). “The Works ...”, p.130

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• Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Stoves, Howl

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• It was a small town: Ferguson, Ohio. When you entered there was a big sign and it said, "Welcome to Ferguson. Beware of the Dog." The all-night drugstore closed at noon.

  Jackie Vernon

  Funny, Night, Ohio

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• It sometimes takes days, even weeks, before a dog's nerves tire. In the case of terriers it can run into months.

  E. B. White

  Funny, Running, Nerves

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• A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself.

  George D. Prentice

  Funny, Animal, Men

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• Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

  Francois Rabelais

  Funny, Running, Bites

  Francois Rabelais “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel”, Library of Alexandria

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• Oh, what is the matter with poor Puggy-Wug? Pet him and kiss him and give him a hug. Run and fetch him a suitable drug. Wrap him up tenderly all in a rug. That is the way to cure Puggy-Wug.

  Winston Churchill

  Friendship, Running, Kissing

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• They motivate us to play, be affectionate, seek adventure and be loyal.

  Tom Hayden

  Friendship, Adventure, Play

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• Sir, this is a unique dog. He does not live by tooth or fang. He respects the right of cats to be cats although he doesn't admire them. He turns his steps rather than disturb an earnest caterpillar. His greatest fear is that someone will point out a rabbit and suggest that he chase it. This is a dog of peace and tranquility.

  John Steinbeck

  Friendship, Humor, Cat

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

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• There's facts about dogs, and then there's opinions about them. The dogs have the facts, and the humans have the opinions. If you want the facts about the dog, always get them straight from the dog. If you want opinions, get them from humans.

  J. Boone

  Want, Facts, Opinion

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• A naked dog for a naked lady.

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Naked

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• To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

  Aldous Huxley

  Animal, Men, Pet

  Readers Digest, 1934.

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• Mrs. Campbell once attempted to smuggle her pet Pekingese through customs by tucking him inside the upper part of her cape. "Everything was going splendidly," she later remarked, "until my bosom barked."

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell

  Funny, Travel, Pet

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• Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

  Ann Landers

  Witty, Cat, Animal

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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, Yesterday, Advancement

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

  Konrad Lorenz

  Friendship, Broken, Faithful

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

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• Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

  Sigmund Freud

  Cute, Hate, People

  Sigmund Freud (1992). “The Diary of Sigmund Freud 1929-1939: A Record of the Final Decade”

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• A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Illiteracy

  "A Dog's Best Friend Is His Illiteracy". "The Private Dining Room". Book by Ogden Nash, 1953.

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Humor, Pet

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

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• He is so shaggy. People are amazed when he gets up and they suddenly realize they have been talking to the wrong end.

  Elizabeth Jones

  Funny, Talking, People

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• I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Friendship, Home, Men

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