Inspirational Dog Quotes - Page 2

• We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

  George Eliot

  Dog, Live Life, Animal

  "Puppy Love: new BBC4 comedy explores the UK's canine compulsion" by Joanna Scanlan & Vicki Pepperdine, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2014.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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, Dog, Hate

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

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• The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?

  Walter Scott

  Dog, Sorry, Loss

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  Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Cute, God

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.9262, Delphi Classics

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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 psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

  Bernard Williams

  Happiness, Dog, Nature

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

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• The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Funny Love, Dog, Men

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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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• A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Funny, Dog, Humorous

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• I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

  Rita Rudner

  Dog, Witty, Religious

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• I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Eye, Thinking

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

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• You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Dog, Animal, Thinking

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

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• If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

  Andy Rooney

  Dog, Fun, Owning A Pet

  Andy Rooney (2012). “Not That You Asked...”, p.14, Random House

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• Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Animal, Inner Beauty

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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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• Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!

  Theophile Gautier

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dog

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• Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• Every dog must have his day.

  Jonathan Swift

  Success, Dog, Bad Day

  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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• All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Dog, Animal, Pet

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