Canine Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.

  Doris Day

  Dog, Pet Loss, Puppy

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Thinking, Nuts

  John Steinbeck (2012). “The Portable Steinbeck”, p.42, Penguin

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• Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Friendship, God, Dog

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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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• 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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• They [dogs] 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

  Funny, Dog, Silly

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.68, Jerome K. Jerome

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• From the dog's point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog.

  Mabel Robinson

  Dog, Views, Masters

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  No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.

  Herman Melville

  Dog, Horse, Philosopher

  Herman Melville (2016). “Redburn.His First Voyage”, p.222, Herman Melville

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  What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Life, Basketball

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.135, Best Books on

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