Dog Quotes - Page 7

• A man and his dog is a sacred relationship. What nature hath put together let no woman put asunder.

  A. R. Gurney

  Funny, Friendship, Men

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

  Holbrook Jackson

  Friendship, God, Men

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• The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

  James Thurber

  Successful, Animal, Men

  James Thurber (1955). “Thurber's Dog's: A Collection of the Master's Dogs”

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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

  Differences, Stranger, Creation

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• Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.

  David Foster Wallace

  Night, Giving, Agnostic

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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, Mean, Animal

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

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• I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree.

  Dana Burnet

  Pet, Pedigree, Inches

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• We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  Immanuel Kant

  Heart, Animal, Men

  "True animal instinct", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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• It don't care whether I'm good enough. It don't care whether I snore or not. It don't care which God I pray to. There are only three things with that kind of unconditional acceptance: Dogs, donuts, and money.

  Danny DeVito

  Acceptance, Three Things, Care

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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

  Animal, May, Canine

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

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• From the dog's point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog.

  Mabel Robinson

  Views, Canine, Masters

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

  Jerry Smith

  Children, People, Canine

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• When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.

  Kristan Higgins

  Trying, Tears, Pounds

  Kristan Higgins (2012). “Catch of the Day”, p.75, HQN Books

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• The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.

  Madame de Stael

  Funny, Sarcastic, Animal

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• When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, House, Maids

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• Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane.

  Smiley Blanton

  Nature, Animal, Upset

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• You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

  Lewis Grizzard

  Funny, Attitude, Cat

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• Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Sister, Art, Brother

  Actions and Reactions (1909) "The Power of the Dog"

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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, Humorous, People

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• Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Love, Inspiring, Nature

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• Lord, No one but you and I understands what faithfulness is. Do not let me die until, for them, all danger is driven away.

  Carmen Bernos de Gasztold

  Friendship, Religious, Pet

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• America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Small Rooms, America, Friendly

  1949 Letter, 26 Oct.

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• When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

  Edward Abbey

  Friendship, Silly, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.

  Andres Segovia

  Taken, Men, Guitar

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• I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs
  By the known rules of ancient liberty,
  When straight a barbarous noise environs me
  Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.

  John Milton

  Owl, Age, Liberty

  'Sonnet' 12 'I did but prompt the age' (1673)

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