Dogs Quotes and Sayings

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business.  A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.
- Robert Brault

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

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren’t certain we knew better.  They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no moral restraint, and they do not for all their marvelous instincts appear to know about death.  Being such wonderfully uncomplicated beings, they need us to do their worrying.
- George Bird Evans

Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on.
- Colette

Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.
- Franklin P. Jones

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
- Herman Melville

A dog is the only thing on this earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
- Josh Billings

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
- Jeff Valdez

If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
- Will Rogers

The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.
- Margo Kaufman

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.
- Edward Hoagland

The dog is the only animal that has seen his god.
- Author Unknown

Dogs’ lives are too short.  Their only fault, really.
- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

You think dogs will not be in heaven?  I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

I always like a dog so long as he isn’t spelled backward.
- G.K. Chesterton

Labradors are lousy watchdogs.  They usually bark when there is a stranger about, but it is an expression of unmitigated joy at the chance to meet somebody new, not a warning.
- Norman Strung

Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience.
- Jon Winokur

They say the dog is man’s best friend. I don’t believe that. How many of your friends have you neutered?
- Larry Reeb

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
- Robert Benchley

Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job.
- Franklin P. Jones