Dog Quotes - Page 10

The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with that, kiss you. There are no ulterior motives with a dog, no mind games, no second-guessing, no complicated negotiations or bargains, and no guilt trips or grudges if a request is denied.

If gay marriage was OK ... then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.

No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.

All dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal

You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

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.

Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky

There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly. The second is from the Psalms; grin like a dog and run about through the city.

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.

They motivate us to play, be affectionate, seek adventure and be loyal.

Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, Filling an emptiness we don't even know we have.

I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously.

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

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.

He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of "dog." "It is you who are dogs," cried he, "when you stand round and watch me at my breakfast."

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.

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.

Happiness is having a rare steak, a bottle of whiskey, and a dog to eat the rare steak.

If aliens are watching us through telescopes, they're going to think the dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge?

Happiness is a warm puppy.

My dog was with me all the time. I talked to my dog. She was my best buddy. I shared all my secrets with her, but I don't think I every really tried jokes out with the dog.

The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman.

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.