Canine Quotes

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

  Edward Abbey

  Friendship, Dog, Silly

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

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• Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

  Alexander Pope

  Loyalty, Dog, Silly

  Alexander Pope (1737). “Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope: And Several of His Friends”, p.53

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• Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Dog, Animal

  "Music for Chameleons (A Beautiful Child)". Book by Truman Capote, 1980.

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• I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspiring, Dog, Cat

  Attributed in "Animal century" by Mark Gold (, 1998.

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

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Friendship, Education

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

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

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Time Enough for Love". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1973.

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

  Ann Landers

  Dog, Witty, Cat

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Dog, Animal, Men

  Readers Digest, 1934.

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• Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.

  Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

  Funny, Dog, Compassion

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• Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

  Milan Kundera

  Jealousy, Dog, Evil

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Dog, Silly, Animal

  Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage

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• Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

  Agatha Christie

  Wise, Wisdom, Dog

  Agatha Christie (2010). “The Moving Finger (Miss Marple)”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• 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

  Dog, Animal, Car

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.118, Crown Archetype

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• The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dog, Children, Poodles

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

  Robert Benchley

  Dog, Children, Pet

  Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

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

  Robert Benchley

  Dog, Perseverance, Lying

  Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

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• Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dog, Literature, World

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.48, 谷月社

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

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Funny, Dog

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• 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

  Dog, Animal, Pet

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Apr 17, 2010

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• Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

  Roger Caras

  Life, Dog, Sorry

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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

  Dog, Animal, May

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

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• 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

  Letting Go, Dog, Stress

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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