Dog Lover Quotes

• Dogs never lie about love.

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

  Friendship, Dog, Lying

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (2010). “The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving: How Dogs Have Captured Our Hearts for Thousands of Years”, Harper Collins

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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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• In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.

  George Graham Vest

  Dog, Selfish, Ungrateful

  "Best Speech; Faithful, Even in Death" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. April 18, 1999.

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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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• The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Funny, Dog, People

  Letter to John Forster, 1850.

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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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• Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog.

  Douglas Malloch

  Friendship, Dog, Hurt

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• The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Men, Animal

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1960). “Mark Twain-Howells Letters: The Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910”, Belknap Press

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

  Andy Rooney

  Inspirational, Funny, Dog

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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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• We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.

  Roger Caras

  Friendship, Dog, Lessons

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

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• Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Prayer, Heart

  Dean Koontz (2007). “False Memory”, p.80, Bantam

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• Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.

  Anne Lamott

  Dog, Knowing, Sides

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• 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

  Friendship, Dog, Men

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Double Garden: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.13, 谷月社

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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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• Animals are good to think with.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Animal, Thinking

  "Totemism". Book by Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962.

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• Dogs wait for us faithfully.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Cute, Dog, Waiting

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• Living with a dog is easy- like living with an idealist.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dog, Easy, Canine

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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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• A dog has one aim in life... to bestow his heart.

  J. R. Ackerley

  Cute, Dog, Heart

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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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• There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog

  Konrad Lorenz

  Friendship, Dog, Broken

  Konrad Lorenz (2003). “King Solomon's Ring”, p.111, Routledge

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