Dog Quotes - page 3

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. (Robert Benchley)
I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject. View quote
Samuel Johnson
You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether its a man or a dog. Theyre the best for every day. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I spilled spot remover on my dog; now he's gone. View quote
Steven Wright
When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you. View quote
Nora Ephron
Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
The dog, to gain his private ends, Went mad, and bit the man. (Oliver Goldsmith)
My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash. View quote
Joan Rivers
Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light. View quote
Matthew Arnold
My little old dog, a heartbeat at my feet. View quote
Edith Wharton
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
When a dog is drowning, everyone offers him a drink. View quote
George Herbert
Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, With a third dog one of the two dogs meets With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done. View quote
Henry Fielding
Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green And every goose a swan, lad And every lass a queen Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day. (Charles Kingsley)
Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. View quote
John Calvin
A dog starved at his master's gate predicts the ruin of the state. View quote
William Blake
Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub. View quote
Erma Bombeck
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