Dogs Quotes

The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

A dog that is indoors, To be let out implores. You let him out and what then? He wants back in again.

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

Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.

The dog is man’s best friend. He has a tail on one end. Up in front he has teeth. And four legs underneath.

The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don’t know… How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what’s its own and what’s alien.

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.

Nothing escapes its notice, from a mouse to a moonbeam… a Fox Terrier will outrat a cat, outguard a Doberman, and outplay a 2-year-old child.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere man.