Dog Quotes - Page 92

Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.

With eye upraised his master's look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps.

My mother-in-law was so mean she blinded herself just to get a free dog.

As a kid I was made to walk the plank. We couldn't afford a dog.

She boasted the general battle-ax demeanor of an especially strict governess. This was the kind of woman who took her tea black, smoked cigars after midnight, played a mean game of cribbage, and kept a bevy of repulsive little dogs. Alexia liked her immediately.

This study is not for the amateur. It's not for the dilettante. It's not for the cult follower. It's not for someone who wants everything done for them. It's not for the one who just wants to stare with that fixed dog-like devotion towards the teacher.

He who lives among dogs must learn to pant.

When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

I believe in the Creator. I don't believe the creator is God. If you change G-O-D the other way, it becomes dog.

A writer once asked what I'd say if I ever met my biggest hater. I paused, thought deeply and said, "Probably 'suk a dog dik, motherfuker.'"

I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich

The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

I've decided life is too fragile to finish a book I dislike just because it cost $16.95 and everyone else loved it. Or eat a fried egg with a broken yolk (which I hate) when the dog would leap over the St. Louis Arch for it.

A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.

As anyone who goes into dog-rescue knows, it is not a for-profit business, but the rewards are priceless for me.

When a really cute dog shows up on your doorstep, you can't be like, Yeah, no. You're like, Oh, yay, puppy!

Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?

I would recommend to those persons who are inclined to stagnate, whose blood is beginning to thicken sluggishly in their veins, to try keeping four dogs, two of which are puppies.

There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.

I never minded flying cheap. I always said to myself, 'Taking this flight saves enough money to rescue four dogs, or six cats, or will let me make a difference to the one woman saving chimps in Cameroon.'

A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog.

But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.