Dog Quotes - Page 18

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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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• I can train any dog in 5 minutes. It's training the owner that takes longer.

  Barbara Woodhouse

  Training, Minutes, Owners

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• I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.

  Dean Koontz

  Believe, Past, Snacks

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• When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Funny, Sports, Mistake

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.

  Carl T. Rowan

  Funny, Kids, Two

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• Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

  Charles Kingsley

  Swans, Blood, Youth

  Charles Kingsley, “Young And Old”

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• Dogs don't know about beginnings, and they don't speculate on matters that occurred before their time. Dogs also don't know - or at least don't accept - the concept of death. With no concept of beginnings or endings dogs probably don't know that for people having a dog as a life companion provides a streak of light between two eternities of darkness.

  Stanley Coren

  Friendship, Animal, Two

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• Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Sarcastic, Witty, Horse

  Twitter post from Jan 03, 2017

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• There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars.

  Lee Trevino

  Funny, Two, Long

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• A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mean, World, Wags

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• The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

  William Shakespeare

  Cat, Animal, Denmark In Hamlet

  1600-1 Hamlet to Laertes. Hamlet, act 5, sc.1, l.288-9.

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• Dogs act exactly the way we would act if we had no shame.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Funny, Way, Shame

  Cynthia Heimel (2004). “Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye”

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• There is nothing truer in this world than the love of a good dog.

  Mira Grant

  World, This World, Good Dog

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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

  Animal, Pet, Dining

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Apr 17, 2010

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  Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

  George Eliot

  Motivational, Spiritual, Nature

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.226, 谷月社

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• Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

  Diogenes

  Rewards, Philosopher, Dog Heaven

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• Meow” means “woof” in cat.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Mean, Cat

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.197, Hachette UK

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• Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pet, Sitting, Evening

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• Never trust a dog to watch your food.

  Saint Patrick

  Watches, Never Trust, Dog Training

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• Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Animal, Appreciate

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

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• Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Wall, Children

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.

  Gloria Estefan

  Friendship, Book, Inspired

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• Until you have bred dogs and have drawn and painted them, it is difficult to realize that no two are identical in conformation. You need do no more than gun for a day over two of them to recognize that each is an individual. It requires the intimacy of daily living with a dog to know the subtle quality of his mind, the ham-smell of his ears, and that his wet nose in your mouth tastes salty.

  George Bird Evans

  Friendship, Gun, Two

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• Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?

  Anatole France

  Friendship, Heart, Sprung Up

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.1266, Delphi Classics

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• I'm a big man and I like big dogs.... The dogs kept growing until only one of us could get in the elevator. It caused enough hassles so they finally kicked me out of my apartment.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Friendship, Men, Growing

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