Terriers Quotes

It sometimes takes days, even weeks, before a dog's nerves tire. In the case of terriers it can run into months.

E. B. White

Funny, Running, Dog

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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

Agnes Repplier

Dog, Heart, Animal

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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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Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.

Jerome K. Jerome

Funny, Dog, Four

Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.221, Diderot Publishing

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Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane.

Smiley Blanton

Dog, Nature, Animal

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(Scottish Terriers) have all the compactness of a small dog and all the valor of a big one. And they are so exceedingly sturdy that it is proverbial that the only thing fatal to them is being run over by an automobile - in which case the car itself knows it has been in a fight.

Dorothy Parker

Running, Dog, Fun

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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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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 laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

Max Eastman

Dog, Laughter, Laughing

Max Eastman (2008). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.34, Transaction Publishers

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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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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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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Mark Twain

Funny, Inspiring, Thankful

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 16, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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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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A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.

John Holmes

Dog, Silly, Race

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No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Christopher Morley

Dog, Appreciation, Silly

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No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich.

Louis Sabin

Dog, Silly, Owning A Pet

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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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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

Robert Benchley

Dog, Perseverance, Lying

Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

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Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

Ouida

Drawing, Rooms, Honest

Ouida (1875). “Chandos: A Novel”, p.106

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Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and policemen to chase anything that runs away.

Terry Pratchett

Running, Feet, Ancient

Terry Pratchett (2008). “Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)”, p.154, Random House

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People are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be the same breed. George Bush and an Australian Aborigine have fewer differences than a Lhasa apso and a toy fox terrier. A Japanese raised in Riyadh would be an Arab. A Zulu raised in New Rochelle would be an orthodontist. People are all the same, though their circumstances differ terribly.

P. J. O'Rourke

Dog, Race, Differences

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I like extremely effeminate dogs like terriers or schnauzers. I make an exception for giant schnauzers and big poodles. Basically, I like dogs which can be dyed day-glo colours.

Jonathan Meades

Dog, Giants, Poodles

Source: thequietus.com

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Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dog, Sight, Cynical

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.407

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He's like a terrier, Scholes, he won't let go - even the postman would be afraid of him.

Jimmy Magee

Letting Go, Would Be, Scholes

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