Sleeping Dogs Quotes

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  The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

  Andy Rooney

  Inspirational, Funny, Dog

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• No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich.

  Louis Sabin

  Dog, Silly, Owning A Pet

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• Let sleeping dogs lie.

  Robert Walpole

  Dog, Lying, Sleep

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

  Josh Billings

  Love, Friendship, Dog

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• Let sleeping dogs lie — who wants to rouse 'em?

  David Copperfield

  Dog, Lying, Sleep

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• 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.
  
  
  
  Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

  Agnes Repplier

  Dog, Heart, Animal

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• 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

  Dog, Humorous, Animal

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 14

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

  Christopher Morley

  Dog, Appreciation, Silly

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  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

  Inspiring, Dog, Silly

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• In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

  Edward Hoagland

  Dog, Nature, Silly

  Edward Hoagland (1976). “Red Wolves and Black Bears”, Random House Incorporated

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• The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Lying, Sleep

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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  Let sleeping dogs lie or lying dogs sleep or whatever. Time to move on. People get divorced. Life doesn't owe you your own personal happy ending especially at another's, or in this case several others', expense.

  Axl Rose

  Dog, Lying, Moving

  "Axl Rose to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: I'm Not Coming and Don't Induct Me" by Erik Pedersen, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2012.

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• The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Lying, Sleep

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.202, Penguin

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• A woman who repeatedly asks a man she knows to be gay when he's going to get married and have children is not trying to let sleeping dogs lie.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Dog, Children, Lying

  "For Name's Sake" by Mallory Ortberg, www.slate.com. January 20, 2016.

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• Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay.

  Amy Hempel

  Good Night, Dog, Children

  Amy Hempel (2006). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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