Welcome to DogQuotes.info! We hope you enjoy our collection of dog quotes. Dogs are known as man’s best friend, and for good reason. They brighten our days, wag their tails, and share their love. So sit back and enjoy these quotes and sayings about our canine friends.
Dog Quotes and Sayings
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
-Washington Irving
Children are for people who can’t have dogs.
-Author Unknown
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
-Ben Williams
The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic.
-Henry Ward Beecher
I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.
–Gilda Radner
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, Notebooks, 1912
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
-Herman Melville, Redburn. His First Voyage, 1849
Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.
-Franklin P. Jones
From the dog’s point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog.
-Mabel Louise Robinson
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. 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
Dogs are miracles with paws.
-Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy
Man is a dog’s idea of what God should be.
-Holbrook Jackson
The dog is the only animal that has seen his god.
-Author Unknown
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
-Alfred North Whitehead
Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.
-Agnes Sligh Turnbull
My little dog – a heartbeat at my feet.
-Edith Wharton
A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.
-A A Milne
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
-George Eliot
Whoever said “let sleeping dogs lie” didn’t sleep with dogs.
-Unknown
More dog quotes…
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren’t certain we knew better. They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no moral restraint, and they do not for all their marvelous instincts appear to know about death. Being such wonderfully uncomplicated beings, they need us to do their worrying.
-George Bird Evans, Troubles with Bird Dogs
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
-Agnes Repplier
One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you’re feeling blue is that he doesn’t try to find out why.
-Author Unknown
Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job.
-Franklin P. Jones
I talk to him when I’m lonesome like; and I’m sure he understands. When he looks at me so attentively, and gently licks my hands; then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes, but I never say naught thereat. For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that.
-W. Dayton Wedgefarth
Every boy should have two things: a dog, and a mother willing to let him have one
-Anonymous
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
-David Starr Jordan
Properly trained, a man can be dog’s best friend.
-Corey Ford
If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them.
-Phil Pastoret
Famous Dog Quotes
With the exception of women, there is nothing on earth so agreeable or necessary to the comfort of man as the dog.
-Edward Jesse, Anecdote of Dogs
The dog is a yes-animal, very popular with people who can’t afford to keep a yes-man.
-Robertson Davies
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
-Max Eastman, Enjoyment of Laughter
My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can’t decide whether to ruin our carpets or ruin our lives.
-Rita Rudner
My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.
-Author Unknown
It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.
-Henry David Thoreau
If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
-Andy Rooney
A dog is not “almost human” and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.
-John Holmes
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
-Will Rogers
The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.
-Mme. de Staël
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog’s face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window.
-Steve Bluestone
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
-Aldous Huxley
They never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.
-Jerome K. Jerome
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
-Agnes Replier
Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives.
-Sue Murphy
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
-Roger Caras
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man’s.
-Mark Twain
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
-Ambrose Bierce
A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.
-O.A. Battista
If dogs could talk; perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
–Karelapek
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man, without his Vices. This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the Memory of Boatswain, a Dog.
-George Gordon, Lord Byron, “Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog”
Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this – one dog does not change a bone with another.
-Adam Smith
The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.
-Winston Churchill
I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it’s a man or a dog; they’re the best for everyday.
-George Bernard Shaw
The greatest love is a mother’s; then a dog’s; then a sweetheart’s.
-Polish Proverb
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.
-Author Unknown
Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.
-Roger Caras
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Filed under Dog Quotes by on Feb 22nd, 2012. Comment. 
This is a great collection of clips!
Some of my favorites are the poodle wearing the sunglasses, the four dogs all running with the same stick, and the skateboarding bulldog! And don’t forget the pug puppy in the mirror.
Ah, dogs are fun. 
Filed under Funny Dogs by on Mar 7th, 2012. Comment.
A collection of the best dog sayings. Man has had a lot to say about his best friend over the years, and here are some of the most famous quotes and sayings about dogs. Whether you have a dog or know someone who does, these great sayings will remind you of your furry friends.
I like driving around with my two dogs, especially on the freeways. I make them wear little hats so I can use the car-pool lanes.
-Monica Piper
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
-Roger Caras
I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it’s a man or a dog; they’re the best for everyday.
-George Bernard Shaw
The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread.
-Portuguese Proverb
The great pleasure of a dog is that you make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, he will make a fool of himself too.
-Samuel Butler
Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on.
-Colette
The greatest love is a mother’s; then a dog’s; then a sweetheart’s.
-Polish Proverb
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
-Ogden Nash
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. -Rita Rudner
Show a dog a finger, and he wants the whole hand.
-Yiddish Proverb
The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
-Madame de Stael
The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.
-Margo Kaufman
One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.
-Chinese Proverb
Heaven must be accessed by favor because if it was accessed by merit all dogs would go there first.
-Mark Twain
I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.
-Will Rogers
A dog that runs after two bones catches neither.
-English Proverb
A dog is the only thing on this earth that loves you
more than he loves himself.
-Josh Billings
To live long, eat like a cat, drink like a dog.
-German Proverb
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
-Ben Williams
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Here is a collection of quotes about dogs. These quotes help to remind us how dogs have impacted our lives and made them better. Enjoy!
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
-Josh Billings
He that lieth with the dogs, riseth with fleas.
-George Herbert
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
-Rita Rudner
Every boy who has a dog should also have a mother, so the dog can be fed regularly.
-Anonymous
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
-Andrew A. Rooney
The more one gets to know of men, the more one values dogs.
-Alphonse Toussenel
When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.
-Charles Anderson Dana
I talk to him when I’m lonesome like; and I’m sure he understands. When he looks at me so attentively, and gently licks my hands; then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes, but I never say naught thereat. For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that.
-W. Dayton Wedgefarth
I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
-Marie Corelli
Quotes about dogs –
A dog can express more with his tail in seconds than his owner can express with his tongue in hours.
-Anonymous
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 in their object-relations.
-Sigmund Freud
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
-Aldous Huxley
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
The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.
-Nietzche
Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.
-Roger Caras
If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman’s pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.
-George Bernard Shaw
A dog is not “almost human” and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.
-John Holmes
By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a “noble” animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward- you will never get her full confidence again.
-Mark Twain
To err is human, to forgive, canine.
-Anonymous
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