Dog Quotes - Page 11

• According to a new survey, 90% of men say their lover is also their best friend. Which is really kind of disturbing when you consider man's best friend is his dog.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Best Friend, Men

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• He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Horse, Passion, Littles

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 49

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• What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs.

  E. V. Lucas

  Lying, Legs, Littles

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• There's facts about dogs, and then there's opinions about them. The dogs have the facts, and the humans have the opinions. If you want the facts about the dog, always get them straight from the dog. If you want opinions, get them from humans.

  J. Boone

  Want, Facts, Opinion

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• 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.

  Francis Thompson

  Men, Judging, Doe

  Francis Thompson (1913*). “Prose [works].”

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• Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Children, Humorous

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• With the exception of women, there is nothing on earth so agreeable or necessary to the comfort of man as the dog.

  Edward Jesse

  Funny, Men, Comfort

  Edward Jesse (1860). “Lectures on Natural History: Delivered at the "Fishermen's Home," Brighton”, p.47

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• The Water Babies "Young and Old" When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away: Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day.

  Charles Kingsley

  Baby, Horse, Queens

  The Water Babies "Young and Old" l. 1 (1863)

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• Oh, what is the matter with poor Puggy-Wug? Pet him and kiss him and give him a hug. Run and fetch him a suitable drug. Wrap him up tenderly all in a rug. That is the way to cure Puggy-Wug.

  Winston Churchill

  Friendship, Running, Kissing

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• Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Mad, Degrees, Towns

  Oliver Goldsmith (1837). “The Works ...”, p.130

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• Every dog must have his day.

  Jonathan Swift

  Success, Bad Day, Pet

  Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.513

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• I named my dog Stay, so I can say, 'Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Silly, Animal

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• Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Leadership, Race, Excellence

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• ...Pomeranians speak only to Poodles and Poodles speak only to God.

  Charles Kuralt

  Pomeranians, Poodles, Speak

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• You can say any fool thing to a dog and the dog will just give you this look that says, 'My GOSH, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!

  Dave Barry

  Giving, Intelligence, Looks

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Animal, Men, Pet

  Readers Digest, 1934.

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• Mrs. Campbell once attempted to smuggle her pet Pekingese through customs by tucking him inside the upper part of her cape. "Everything was going splendidly," she later remarked, "until my bosom barked."

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell

  Funny, Travel, Pet

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

  Konrad Lorenz

  Friendship, Broken, Faithful

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

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• 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.

  Sigmund Freud

  Cute, Hate, People

  Sigmund Freud (1992). “The Diary of Sigmund Freud 1929-1939: A Record of the Final Decade”

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• Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Hope, Yesterday, Advancement

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

  Ann Landers

  Witty, Cat, Animal

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• A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Illiteracy

  "A Dog's Best Friend Is His Illiteracy". "The Private Dining Room". Book by Ogden Nash, 1953.

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• The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Humor, Pet

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.13, University of Georgia Press

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• He is so shaggy. People are amazed when he gets up and they suddenly realize they have been talking to the wrong end.

  Elizabeth Jones

  Funny, Talking, People

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• I enjoy horse riding, spending time with my dog 'Smurf,' and basically having a really good laugh partying and having fun!

  Katie Price

  Horse, Fun, Party

  "Katie Price...is right". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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