Dog Quotes - Page 19

• If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.

  Marjorie Garber

  Friendship, Sadness, Loss

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• The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Funny, Years, Names

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• Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting.

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Cat, Attention

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• That was the first time I knew I loved him.

  Kim Basinger

  Friendship, Firsts, First Time

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• Right now Jack lives with me. Jack is my Jack Russell. I also have a Yorkie named Ginger, but Jack and Ginger can't be in the same place at the same time because she is very jealous. Even if Jack's not in the same state, she would growl if she heard his name.

  Mariah Carey

  Friendship, Jealous, Names

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• I'm a big man and I like big dogs.... The dogs kept growing until only one of us could get in the elevator. It caused enough hassles so they finally kicked me out of my apartment.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Friendship, Men, Growing

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• She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.

  Gloria Estefan

  Friendship, Book, Inspired

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• Until you have bred dogs and have drawn and painted them, it is difficult to realize that no two are identical in conformation. You need do no more than gun for a day over two of them to recognize that each is an individual. It requires the intimacy of daily living with a dog to know the subtle quality of his mind, the ham-smell of his ears, and that his wet nose in your mouth tastes salty.

  George Bird Evans

  Friendship, Gun, Two

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• Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?

  Anatole France

  Friendship, Heart, Sprung Up

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.1266, Delphi Classics

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• The eyes of a dog, the expression of a dog, the warmly wagging tail of a dog and the gloriously cold damp nose of a dog were in my opinion all God-given for one purpose only-to make complete fools of us human beings.

  Barbara Woodhouse

  Funny, Eye, Expression

  Barbara Woodhouse (1984). “No Bad Dogs: The Woodhouse Way”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• The liberal Gluten-free agenda is turning our dogs lesbian.

  Stephen Colbert

  Agendas, Gluten, Gluten Free

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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

  Men, Wish, Devil

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• I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Wish, Might

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2478, Oxford University Press

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• My dog does have his failings, of course. He's afraid of firecrackers and hides in the clothes closet whenever we run the vacuum cleaner, but, unlike me he's not afraid of what other people think of him or anxious about his public image.

  Gary A. Kowalski

  Friendship, Running, Thinking

  Gary Kowalski (2007). “The Souls of Animals”, p.15, New World Library

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• I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.

  David Antin

  Giving, Stories, Half

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• The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse.

  Josh Billings

  Curse

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• The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Kind, He Man

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• I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.

  William Shakespeare

  Oracles, Lips, Merchant Of Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88

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• When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mistress, Thieves, Bark

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4 (Part II): The Friend”, p.170, Princeton University Press

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• Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.

  Richard Codey

  Years, Tails, Politics

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• Being a celebrity doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs — and if being a celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all.

  Walt Disney

  Couple, Giving, Fleas

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

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• No dog is as well bred or as well mannered or as distinguished and handsome.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Funny, Training, Handsome

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• There are two kinds of fidelity, that of dogs and that of cats; you, gentleman, have the fidelity of cats who never leave the house.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Friendship, Cat, Two

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• I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Friendship, Baby, Kids

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• Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

  Adam Smith

  Funny, Animal, Men

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