Just Fur Fun: Dog Quotes

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. And inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

--Groucho Marx

If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes

--Anonymous

 

You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark.

--Wallace Arnold 

 

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.

--Unknown

 

If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise
--Unknown

 

Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant.  
-- Unknown

 

Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies. 

-- Gene Hill

 

In dog years, I'm dead. 

-- Unknown

 

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

-- Aldous Huxley

 

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

-- Robert Benchley

 

Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in?  I think that's how dogs spend their lives.

-- Sue Murphy

 

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

-- August Strindberg

 

No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

-- Fran Lebowitz

 

Ever consider what they 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

 

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.    

-- Rita Rudner

 

My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can.  That's almost $7.00 in dog money.     
-- Joe Weinstein

 

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.  

-- James Thurber

 

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

-- Nora Ephron

 

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

-- Ann Landers

 

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

-- Robert A. Heinlein

 

In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.   

-- Dereke Bruce

 

Of all the things I miss from veterinary practice, puppy breath is one of the most fond memories!   

-- Dr. Tom Cat

 

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

-- Ben Williams

 

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

-- Edward Abbey

 

Cat's motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it.  

-- Unknown

 

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

-- Unknown

 

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.    

-- Christopher Morley

 

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.    

-- Josh Billings

 

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.                    
-- Holbrook Jackson

 

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
-- Andrew A. Rooney

 

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

-- Mark Twain

 

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

-- Smiley Blanton

 

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.   

-- John Steinbeck

 

You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, "My God, you're right! I never would've thought of  that!"  

-- Dave Barry

 

A watchdog is a dog kept to guard your home, usually by sleeping where a burglar would awaken the household by falling over him.

--Anonymous

 

Old dogs like old shoes are comfortable. They might be out of shape and a little worn around the edges but they fit well.

-- Bonnie Wilcox

 

If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around.

-- Will Rogers

 

The trees in Siberia are miles apart-that's why the dogs are so fast.  

--Bob Hope

 

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