Funny and Unique: Quotes about dogs. Here's a collection of inspirational quotes all about dogs. Chances are one of these quotes will make you smile or inspire you.
Quotes About Dogs
I am forever collection of quotes. I find them inspiring, thoughtful and funny, which is how I have collected over 70 famous dog quotes.
Americans own over 43 million households have dogs in their homes, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association, so there are bound to be lots of quotes from pet owners.
Here's a collection of inspirational quotes all about dogs. Chances are one of these quotes will make you smile or inspire you.
Let's Get to the Dog Quotes
1. "If there is no heaven for dogs, then I want to go where they go when I die."--Anonymous
2. "The greatest 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
3. "If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people." --Capek
4. "A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself." --Billings
5. "The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two." --Maeterlinck
6. "There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face." --Ben Williams
7. "Whoever said you can’t buy happiness forgot about little puppies."--Gene Hill
9."A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself."--Josh Billings
10. "The average dog is a nicer person than the average person." --Andrew A. Rooney
11. "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." --Unknown
12. "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
13. "If your dog doesn't like someone you probably shouldn't either." --Unknown
14. "Old dogs, like old shoes, are comfortable. They might be a bit out of shape and a little worn around the edges, but they fit well." --Bonnie Wilcox 'Old Dogs, Old Friends'
15. "The more people I meet the more I like my dog" --Unknown
16. "In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog." --Edward Hoagland
17. "I once decided not to date a guy because he wasn't excited to meet my dog. I mean, this was like not wanting to meet my mother." --Bonnie Schacter
18. "No Matter how little money and how few possessions, you own, having a dog makes you rich." --Louis Sabin
19. "Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail." --Josh Billings
21. "Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." --Roger Caras
22. "Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear." --Dave Barry
23. "The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic." --Henry Ward Beecher
24. "To his dog, every man is Napolean, hence the constant popularity of dogs." --Aldous Huxley
25. "Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives." --Sue Murphy
26. "Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends." --Alexander Pope
27. "Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs." --Martha Scott
28. "Every dog must have his day." --Jonathan Swift
29. "I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who have not got the guts to bite people themselves." --August Strindberg
31. "Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful." --Ann Landers
32. "If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons." --James Thurber
33. "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. It is the principal difference between a dog and a man." --Mark Twain
34. "The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue" --Anonymous
35. "The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog." --George Graham Vest
36. "Every boy who has a dog should also have a mother, so the dog can be fed regularly." --Anonymous
37. Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress." --Louis Sabin
38. "Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe, we are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made." --Roger Caras
39. "A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk." --O. A. Battista
40. "A dog is man's best friend and vice versa." --Anonymous
42. "The dog has got more fun out of the man than man has got out of the dog, for man is the more laughable of the two animals."
--James Thurber
43. "A good dog deserves a good home." --Proverb
44. "A watchdog is a dog kept to guard your home, usually by sleeping where a burglar would awaken the household by falling over him." --Anonymous
45. "There's just something about dogs that makes you feel good. You come home, they're thrilled to see you. They're good for the ego." --Janet Schnellman
46. "Every dog isn't a growler, and every growler isn't a dog." --Anonymous
47. "A dog's bark may be worse than his bite, but everyone prefers his bark." --Anonymous
48. "The ideal dog food would be a ration that tastes like a postman." --Anonymous
49. "A dog can express more with his tail in minutes than his owner can express with his tongue in hours." --Anonymous
50. "There is only one smartest dog in the world, and every boy has it." --Anonymous
51. "Every dog may have his day, but it's the puppies that have the weekends." --Anonymous
52. "It's no coincidence that man's best friend cannot talk." --Anonymous
53. "A dog's bark may be worse than his bite, but it's never quite so personal" --Anonymous
54. "Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails." --Max Eastman
55. "Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job." --Franklin P. Jones
56. "I can train any dog in 5 minutes. It's training the owner that takes longer." --Barbara Woodhouse
57. "You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us." --Robert Louis Stevenson
59. "I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult." --Rita Rudner
60. "No animal I know of can consistently be more of a friend and companion than a dog." --Stanley Leinwoll
61. "When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget they're not people." --Julia Glass
62. "You own a dog; you feed a cat." =-Jim Fiebig
63. "Any time you think you have influence, try ordering around someone else's dog." --The Cockle Bur
64. "Old Yeller was bought for 3 dollars from a shelter; his real name was Spike." --World Features Syndicate
65. "Disney's "Shaggy Dog" was bought for 2 dollars at a pound." --World Features Syndicate
66. "… none are as fiercely loyal as dog people. In return, no doubt, for the never-ending loyalty of dogs." --Linda Shrieves, Orlando Sentinel
67. "Happiness is a warm puppy." --Charles Schulz
68. "A collie has the brain of a man, and the ways of a woman." --Scottish Proverb
69. "Many dogs will give a greeting grin much like a human smile." --Richard A. Wolters
70. "Intelligent dogs rarely want to please people whom they do not respect." --W.R. Koehler
71. "There is no faith which has never yet been broken except that of a truly faithful dog." --Konrad Lorenz
72. "The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people." --Daniel Pinkwater
73. "I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs." - Barbara Woodhouse
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