Dog Proverbs

"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart.
You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion" - Unknown

"Whoever said you can’t buy happiness forgot about little puppies." - Gene Hill

"In dog years I’m dead"—Unknown

"Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear."—Dave Barry

"I wonder what goes through his mind when he sees us peeing in his water bowl."
- Penny Ward Moser

"The dog’s kennel is not the place to keep a sausage."—Malaysian Proverb

"Dogs are not our whole lives, they make our lives whole!" - R. Caras

"Outside of a dog, a book is probably man’s best friend, and inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read."—Groucho Marx.

"The scientific name for an animal that doesn’t either run from or fight its enemies is lunch."—Michael Friedman

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs." - Aldous Huxley

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."—Robert Benchley

"Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives."—Sue Murphy

"Did you hear about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac who stays up all night wondering if there really is a Dog?"—Unknown

"I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers."
- Unknown

"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves."—August Strindberg

"No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation."—Fran Lebowitz

"Ever consider what they must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul- chicken, pork, half cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth!"—Anne Tyler

"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult."—Rita Rudner

"My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That’s almost $7.00 in dog money."—Joe Weinstein

"Some days you’re the dog, some days you’re the hydrant."—Unknown.

"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons."—James

"You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets."
- Nora Ephron

"Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
—Ann Landers

"Women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."—Robert A. Heinlein

"In order to keep a true perspective of one’s importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him."—Dereke Bruce, Taipei, Taiwan

"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face."—Ben Williams

"When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem." --Edward Abbey

"Cat’s Motto: No matter what you’ve done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it."—Unknown

"Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of is tail.."—Unknown

"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does."—Christopher Morley

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

"Man is a dog’s idea of what God should be."—Holbrook Jackson

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person." -Andrew A. Rooney

"Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."—Mark Twain

"I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."—Abraham Lincoln

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went"  Unknown

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."—Mark Twain

"Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane " - Smiley Burton

"I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt and am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."—John Steinbeck

"My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can’t decide whether to ruin our carpets or ruin our lives" - Rita Rudner

"A dog can express more with his tail in minutes, than an owner can express with his tongue in hours" -Anonymous-

"If people were better than animals, they would take better care of the World." -Anonymous-

"The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue."
-Anonymous-

"The more I see of man, the better I like dogs." -Madam Roland

"There is only one smartest dog in the world, and every boy has it." -Louis Sabin

"No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich." -Louis Sabin

"Don't keep your dog always on a leash if you want him to be attached to you."
-A. Willemetz

"I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons." - Will Rogers

"They are better than human beings, because they know but do not tell." -Emily Dickinson

"The great pleasure of a dog is that you make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."-Samuel Butler

"Histories are more full of examples of fidelity of dogs than of friends." -Alexander Pope

"Here, gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity." -Napoleon Bonaparte

"The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, the first to welcome, foremost to defend."
-Lord Byron

"In the concurring opinion of the wise, a dog, thankful for his food, is more worthy than a human being who is devoid of gratitude." -Sa'Di

"The dog represents all that is best in man." -Etienne Charlet

"Dogs are indeed the most affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation."
-Edmund Burke

"...he will be our friend for always and always and always." -Rudyard Kipling