Dog Quotes - Page 36

Mutt enjoyed traveling by car, but he was an unquiet passenger. He suffered from the delusion, common to dogs and small boys, that when he was looking out the right-hand side, he was probably missing something far more interesting on the left-hand side.

I think fur looks better on an animal than on a human being. So I dress my dog in a mink teddy.

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs

I don't believe anything can do as much for a room as a glowing fire in an attractive fireplace. Men and dogs love an open fire - they show good sense. It is the heart of any room and should be kindled on the slightest provocation.

I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

I want people to understand there is a such a thing as creating a harmonious experience between the dogs and the humans.

You cannot "love" a dog out of her bad behavior, just as you can't "love" a criminal into stopping his crimes.

Dogs are our best teachers and biggest healers. We can learn so much from them about how to live life in balance, and they are a constant source of spiritual uplift and unconditional love that is so important to have in order to be healthy.

All dogs can be guide dogs of a sort, leading us to places we didn't even know we needed or wanted to go.

Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans -- the ability to make you feel valued just by being you -- and it was something of a miracle to me to be on the receiving end of all that acceptance. The dog didn't care what I looked like, or what I did for a living, or what a train wreck of a life I'd led before I got her, or what we did from day to day. She just wanted to be with me, and that awareness gave me a singular sensation of delight.

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

It's impossible to talk without labels. "Dog" is a label, but that doesn't mean it's meaningless, nor does it mean there's no difference in a Shih Tzu and a Doberman.

I don't know how I'm gonna pick up a bat again. I just need to be away for a bit and play with my dogs.

Too many are too obsessed by method. it becomes a dogma.

Thou call'st me dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.

The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control. In the words of total need: "Wouldn't you?" Yes you would. You would lie, cheat, inform on your friends, steal, do anything to satisfy total need. Because you would be in a state of total sickness, total possession, and not in a position to act in any other way. Dope fiends are sick people who cannot act other than they do. A rabid dog cannot choose but bite.

I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life.

A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.

A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.

We learned sexual technique from our dog. He taught how to beg, and he taught my wife how to roll over and play dead.

We have a tendency to assume people are a unity, and thus good people all good, etc. But the fact that Hitler was good to dogs and children isn't a paradox.

There was something dead in my heart. I tried to figure out what it was by the strength of the smell. I knew that it was not a lion or a sheep or a dog. Using logical deduction, I came to the conclusion that it was a mouse. I had a dead mouse in my heart.

When the man was disgraced and told to go away, he was allowed to ask all the animals whether any of them would come with him and share his fortunes and his life. There were only two who agreed to come entirely of their own accord, and they were the dog and the cat. And ever since then, those two have been jealous of each other, and each is for ever trying to make man choose which one he likes best. Every man prefers one or the other.