DogBoston’s Dog Blog

“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 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

“When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.” - Charles Anderson Dana, ‘What is News?’, The New York Sun 1882

“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

“Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives.” - Sue Murphy

“I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” - Abraham Lincoln

“No Matter how little money and how few possessions, you own, having a dog makes you rich.” - Louis Sabin

“My dog is half pit bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!” - Craig Shoemaker

“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.” - Alexander Pope

“I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.” - Will Rogers

“Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives.” - Sue Murphy

“If you don’t mind throwing tennis balls for eternity, I do have an opening in doggie heaven.” - Frank and Ernest comic strip, an angel at St. Peter’s gate, to a man seeking admittance

“Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail..” - Henry Wheeler Shaw

“J’embrasse mon chien sur la bouche!” (I kiss my dog on the mouth.) - Unknown

“Every dog must have his day.” - Jonathan Swift

“They say a reasonable amount ‘o fleas is good fer a dog — keeps him from broodin’ over bein’ a dog, mebbe.” - Edward Westcott

“DOG, n. A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world’s worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.” - Ambrose Bierce The Devil’s Dictionary, 1911.

“There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog.” waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there. - Lee Iacocca, US auto business executive

“You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.” - Carl Icahn, US auto business executive

“A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.” - Washington Irving

“I like dogs better [than people]. They give you unconditional love. They either lick your face or bite you, but you always know where they’re coming from. With people, you never know which ones will bite. The difference between dogs and men is that you know where dogs sleep at night.” - Greg Louganis

“If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence, try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around.” - cowboy wisdom

My dog is usually pleased with what I do, because she is not infected with the concept of what I “should” be doing.” - Lonzo Idolswine

“I used to look at [my dog] Smokey and think, ‘If you were a little smarter you could tell me what you were thinking,’ and he’d look at me like he was saying, ‘If you were a little smarter, I wouldn’t have to.’” - Fred Jungclaus

“A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog.” - E N Westcott

“If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already.” Actual Twents: “At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene.” Meaning:Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.

“The dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.” - Robert Frost

“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.” - Woodrow Wilson

“If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater…suggest that he wear a tail.” - Fran Lebowitz

“When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.” - Edward Abbey

“When old dogs bark, it’s time to watch out.” – Unknown

“Life is like a dog sled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.” - Lewis Grizzard

“You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.” - Robert Louis Stevenson

“Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job.” - Franklin P Jones

“The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don’t know…How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what’s its own and what’s alien.” - Plato

“Politics are not my concern… they impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.” - Rudyard Kipling

“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

“No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.” - Will Rogers

“America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags it’s tail it knocks over a chair.” - Arnold Toynbee

“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

“No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.” - Will Rogers

“America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags it’s tail it knocks over a chair.” - Arnold Toynbee

“When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.” - Edward Abbey

“The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.” - Daniel Pinkwater ‘Train Your Dog, Dammit!’

“A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.” - Frances Thompson New York Times Magazine May 14, 1967

“In a dog-eat-dog world, it is the dogmatic domain of dog lovers to offer dogdom a dog’s chance to rise above the dog days for a doggone good time.” - AKC Gazette August 1991

“I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.” - Rita Rudner

“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

“Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.” - Albert Payson Terhune ‘The Coming of Lad’

“Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun!” - Groucho Marx

“In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man.” - Maurice Maeterlinck ‘Our Friend, The Dog’

“Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.” - Sir Walter Scott ‘The Talisman’

“The dog is man’s best friend.
He has a tail on one end.
Up in front he has teeth.
And four legs underneath.” - Ogden Nash ‘An Introduction to Dogs’

“The nose of the Bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.” - Winston Churchill

“If you can’t decide between a Shepherd, a Setter or a Poodle, get them all … adopt a mutt!” - ASPCA

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.” - Jack London

“If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.” - Adlai E Stevenson Jr.

“I like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether it’s aman or a dog; it’s best for every day.” - George Bernard Shaw

“A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.” - A A Milne

“There’s not much you can do with a terrier, ma’am.” - Los Angeles dog trainer

“If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.” - Karel Capek

“Jesse has a new dog. You may have noticed that his former pets have been peculiarly unfortunate. When this dog dies every employee in the White House will be at once discharged.” - Ulysses Grant to White house staff when his son got a Newfoundland pup, and after others of his dogs had died mysteriously

“…it takes a strong minded human to appreciate a string-minded dog!” - Mary Webber

“When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog along to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.” - Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

“I’d rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree.” - Dana Burnet

“My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet.” - Edith Wharton

“Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.” - Harry S Truman

“The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.” - Nietzche

“All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers is contained in the dog.” - Kafka

“The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. . . .He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. . . .When all other friends desert, he remains.” - George G Vest

“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

“Never stand between a dog and the hydrant.” - John Peers

“I’ve been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.” - Wendy Liebman

“Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” - Ann Landers

“You do not own a dog, the dog owns you.” - Unknown

“Researches have discovered that dogs can comprehend a vocabulary of 2,000 words, whereas cats can only comprehend 25 to 50. No one ever asks how many words researches can comprehend.” - Unknown

“I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.” - Samuel Johnson

“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” – Unknown

“To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.” - Aldous Huxley

“If you wish the dog to follow you, feed him.” - Unknown

“It’s hard to teach an old dog new tricks.” - Unknown

“Let sleeping dogs lie.” - Charles Dickens

“Every dog has his day — but the nights are reserved for the cats.” - Unknown

“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.” - Robert Benchley

“The biggest dog has been a pup.” - Joaquin Miller

“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.” - Woodrow Wilson

“A piece of grass a day keeps the vet away” - Unknown Dog

“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

“The difference between cats and dogs is, dogs come when they are called, cats take a message and get back to you.” – Unknown

“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

“Rambunctious, rumbustious, delinquent dogs become angelic when sitting.” - Dr. Ian Dunbar

“Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” - Ann Landers

“All trees have bark.
All dogs bark.
Therefore, all dogs are trees.
The fallacy of barking up the wrong tree.” - Unknown

“I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves. ” - August Strindberg

“A dog is a dog except when he is facing you. Then he is Mr. Dog.” - Haitian Farmer

Whoever said “let sleeping dogs lie” didn’t sleep with dogs. - Unknown

“A dog may bark, but his legs will never grow longer.” - 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

“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, Taipei, Taiwan

“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.” - Ben Williams

“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

“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” - Roger Caras

“…Pomeranians speak only to Poodles and Poodles speak only to God.” - Charles Kuralt on “48 Hours”

“To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.” - Aldous Huxley

“A dog wags its tail with its heart” - Martin Buxbaum

“A hungry dog hunts best.” - Lee Trevino, US golfer

“I’m a mog. Half man, half dog. I’m my own best friend” - Barf, John Candy (Spaceballs)

“Outside of a dog, a book is probably man’s best friend, and inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” - Groucho Marx

“Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.” - Elizabeth Taylor

“Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.” - Mark Twain

“Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It’s like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won’t fatten the dog.” - Mark Twain, speech, 11/23/1900.

“Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie!’… till you can find a rock.” - Unknown

“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.” - Christopher Morley

“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

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.” - 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

“One reason a dog is such a lovable creature is his tail wags instead of his tongue.” – Unknown

“Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that a child cannot do much harm one way or another.” - Robert Benchley

“I am I because my little dog knows me” - Gertrude Stein

“My goal in life is to become as wonderful as my dog thinks I am.” - Toby & Eileen Green

“Qui me amat, amet et canem meum.” (”Love me, love my dog.”) - St. Bernard, A.D. 1150, “Sermo Primus”

“The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.” - Anatole France, “The Coming of Riquet”

“I was desperate. The swine who stole my dog doesn’t realize what he did to me!” - Hitler, 1917, After a railroad worker in Alsace stole his terrier

“Man is a dog’s idea of what God should be.” - Holbrook Jackson

“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

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

“To his dog, every man is King; hence the constant popularity of dogs.” - Aldous Huxley

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend,
The first to welcome, foremost to defend. - Lord Byron

The dog is the god of frolic. - Henry Ward Beecher

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Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one. - George Borrow.

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

There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. - Benjamin Franklin

Elegy of the Death of a Mad Dog
The dog, to gain some praivate ends,
Went mad and bit the man. - Oliver Goldsmith