Dog Quotes - Page 21

Trying to get today's Republicans to accept basic facts is like trying to get your dog to take a pill. You have to feed them the truth wrapped in a piece of baloney, hold their snouts shut and stroke their throats. and even then, just when you think they've swallowed it, they spit it out on the linoleum.

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

Great men have great dogs.

Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long.

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick

What a weak, credulous, incredulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the mind of man. How full of inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdities it is. I declare that taking the average of many minds that have recently come before me ... I should prefer the obedience, affections and instinct of a dog before it.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.

People who keep dogs live longer on average than those who do not. This is not some kind of pro-canine campaigning fantasy. It is a simple medical fact that the calming influence of the company of a friendly pet animal reduces blood pressure and therefore the risk of heart attack.

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. If it were otherwise, men would never have bothered to make an alphabet, nor to have fashioned words out of what were only animal sounds, nor to have crossed continents - each man to see what the other looked like.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Man's best friend is his dogma.

The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals

Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.

A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.

Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.

I have nothing to say to him [Ronald Reagan], because he is mad. He is foolish. He is an Israeli dog.

If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it.

Two things that are not long for this world: dogs that chase cars and professional golfers who putt for pars.

I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.

Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.