Thoughts of Famous Dog Quotes in English Images Sayings

Dog quotes in English capture the essence of the bond between humans and their canine companions. These sayings often highlight themes of loyalty, love, and companionship that dogs provide, emphasizing their role as faithful friends and family members. Quotes from famous authors, philosophers, and dog lovers express admiration for dogs' unconditional love, playfulness, and the joy they bring to life. Many of these quotes serve to inspire pet owners to appreciate their dogs’ companionship and the valuable life lessons they teach, such as living in the moment and showing affection. Overall, dog quotes reflect the deep emotional connection shared between dogs and their owners, celebrating the unique relationship that enriches lives.

Thought of the day Dog

You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you’re in faster than you can think of.

- Jill Abramson Thoughts

My main characters are the most sunny, happy, optimistic, loving creatures on the face of the Earth. I couldn’t be happier that’s where I start. I can put as many flawed people in the dog’s world as I like, but the dog doesn’t care. Dog doesn’t judge, dog doesn’t dislike. Dog loves. That’s not so bad.

- Bruce Cameron

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 A. Caras

Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.

- Caroline Knapp

My favorite type of pet has always been a dog. They’re loyal, kind, and offer endless affection. My friend Eric says, ‘The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.’ Funny thought.

- Brendon Urie

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.

- Christopher Hitchens

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

- Milan Kundera

Dogs die. But dogs live, too. Right up until they die, they live. They live brave, beautiful lives. They protect their families. And love us, and make our lives a little brighter, and they don’t waste time being afraid of tomorrow.

- Dan Gemeinhart

Science has so far been unable to tell us how self-aware dogs are, much less whether they have anything like our conscious thoughts. This is not surprising, since neither scientists nor philosophers can agree about what the consciousness of humans consists of, let alone that of animals.

- John Bradshaw

When we adopt a dog or any pet, we know it is going to end with us having to say goodbye, but we still do it. And we do it for a very good reason: They bring so much joy and optimism and happiness. They attack every moment of every day with that attitude.

- Bruce Cameron

Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What’s one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully.

- Jon Katz

Dog Sayings in English

Everything I know I learned from dogs.

- Nora Roberts

Everything I know I learned from dogs.

- Nora Roberts Quotation

A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied. 

- Irish Proverb

A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied.

-  Irish Proverb

I’m a huge dog person; I love to hug and kiss them.

- Danielle de Niese

I’m a huge dog person; I love to hug and kiss them.

- A Quotation From Danielle de Niese

You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.

- W. Bruce Cameron

You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.

- W. Bruce Cameron

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

- Quotes by Jeff Valdez

Cats are smarter than dogs.  You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

- Jeff Valdez

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Will Rogers

When you adopt a dog, you have a lot of very good days and one very bad day.

- W. Bruce Cameron

When you adopt a dog, you have a lot of very good days and one very bad day.

- W. Bruce Cameron

Only my dogs will not betray me.

- Maria Callas

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

- Edith Wharton

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.

- Joe Gores

Happiness is a warm puppy.

- Charles Shultz

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment to animals.

- Immanuel Kant

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

- Josh billings

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

- Emily Dickinson

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

- Alexander Pope

Dog is God spelled backward.

- Duane Chapman

Life is a series of dogs.

- George Carlin

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.

- Will Rogers

The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.

- Henry Ward

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

- Roger Caras

My cats inspire me daily. They inspire me to get a dog!

- Greg Curtis

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

- Edith Wharton

Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job.

- Franklin P. Jones

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

- Edith Wharton

A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.

- Barack Obama

A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well - almost.

- Charlotte Gray

Everybody should have a shelter dog. It’s good for the soul.

- Paul Shaffer

Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.

- Daniel Pinkwater

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

- Winston Churchill

Every dog has his day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weak-end.

- June Carter Cash

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of .

- Ogden Nash

No animal I know of can consistently be more of a friend and companion than a dog.

- Stanley Leinwall

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

- Charles de Gaulle

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

- Peter Steiner

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

- Rita Rudner

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

- Mark Twain

Whoever said you can’t buy happiness forgot little puppies.

- Gene Hill

I like pigs.  Dogs look up to us.  Cats look down on us.  Pigs treat us as equals.

- Sir Winston Churchill

Every dog must have his day.

- Jonathan Swift

The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.

- Konrad Lorenz

No matter how you’re feeling, a little dog gonna love you.

- Waka Flocka Flame

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.

- Mark Twain

There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

- Benjamin Franklin

I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not better for it.

- Abraham Lincoln

The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.

- Robert Falcon Scott

Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.

- H. G. Bissinger

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

- Ben Williams

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

- Kinky Friedman

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

- Marilyn Monroe

Even the tiniest Poodle or Chihuahua is still a wolf at heart.

- Dorothy Hinshaw

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

- Albert Einstein

You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

- Captain Beefheart

What do dogs do on their day off? Can’t lie around - that’s their job.

- George Carlin

My dog is half pit-bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip.

- Craig Shoemaker

Everyone thinks they have the best dog. And none of them are wrong.

- W.R. Purche

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not mans.

- Mark Twain

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.

- Abraham Lincoln

Intelligent dogs rarely want to please people whom they do not respect.

- W.R. Koehler

The dog is the god of frolic.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.

- Franklin P. Jones

I’m a lot less cranky when it’s just me and my dog.

- Bob Peterson

Yesterday I was a dog.  Today I'm dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog.  Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

- Charles M. Schulz

Acquiring a dog may be the only time a person gets to choose a relative.

- Mordecai Siegal

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

- Saint Basil

Puppies are nature’s remedy for feeling unloved, plus numerous other ailments of life.

- Richard Allen Palm

If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.

- Marjorie Garber

When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

- Edward Abbey

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you.  This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

- Mark Twain

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 Thurber

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

– Anne Tyler

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

- Agatha Christie

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, him made an alliance with us.

- Maurice Maeterlinck

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

- Woodrow Wilson

The greatest 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.

- Samuel Butler

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

- Robert Benchley

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

- Ann Landers

Dog Thought in English

Let the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.

-  by Bible

Let the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.

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I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

-  by August Strindberg

I loathe people who keep dogs.  They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

- August Strindberg

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.

- Henry David Thoreau Quotes

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.

- Henry David Thoreau

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

- Andy Rooney

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

- Andy Rooney

When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone.

- Melissa McCarthy

When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone.

Melissa McCarthy

The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic.

The dog was created especially for children.  He is the god of frolic.

- Henry Ward Beecher

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

- Alfred North Whitehead

If you want a friend, buy a dog.

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A dog is the only thing that can mend a crack in your broken heart.

- Judy Desmond Download or Share

Dogs never lie about love.

- Jeffery Masson Download or Share

Dog Quotation in English

I don’t think twice about picking up my dog’s poop, but if another dog’s poop is next to it, I think, ‘Eww, dog poop!

- Jonah Goldberg

I wonder if other dogs think poodle are members of a weird religious cult.

- Rita Rudner

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

- Capek

Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.

- Dean Koontz

It’s just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn’t it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.

- John Grogan

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

- Robert Benchley Quotes

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 world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.

- M.K. Clinton

Dogs are how people would be if the important stuff is all that mattered to us.

- Ashly Lorenzana

Dogs have more love than integrity. They’ve been true to us, yes, but they haven’t been true to themselves.

- Clarence Day

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won’t be too bad.

- Robert Wagner

I once decided not to date a guy because he wasn’t excited to meet my dog. I mean, this was like not wanting to meet my mother.

- Bonnie Schacter

You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, ‘Wow, you’re right! I never would’ve thought of that!

- Dave Barry

You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you’re in faster than you can think of.

- Jill Abramson *

Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.

- John Grogan

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

- Dean Koontz

No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you feel rich.

- Louis Sabin

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Old dogs, like old shoes, are comfortable. They might be a bit out of shape and a little worn around the edges, but they fit well.

- Bonnie Wilcox

My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.

- Michael Sheen

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.

- Jodi Picoult

There’s a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.

- Dick Dale

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

- Michel Houellebecq

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

- Groucho Marx

Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dog.

- Ernest Thompson Seton

It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.

- John Grogan

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

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. It is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

- Mark Twain

If you don’t own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

- Roger A. Caras

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

- Ann Landers

The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down.

- Gordon Korman

I don’t understand people who don’t touch their pets. Their cat or dog is called a pet for a reason.

- Jarod Kintz

Everything I know, I learned from dogs.

- Nora Roberts

It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes.

- Jay London

Dog Quotes list

The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.

- George Graham

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

- Christopher Morley

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

- Lord Byron

Before you get a dog, you can’t quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can’t imagine living any other way.

- Caroline Knapp

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.

- Christopher Morley

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

- Mark Twain

Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it watching for us to come home each day.

- John Grogan

The dog has got more fun out of man than man has got out of the dog, for man is the more laughable of the two animals.

- James Thurber

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

- Eckhart Tolle

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn’t a dog.

- Charles M Schulz

There’s just something about dogs that makes you feel good. You come home, they’re thrilled to see you. They’re good for the ego.

- Janet Schnellman

I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.

- Doris Day

A well trained dog will make no attempt to share your lunch. He will just make you feel so guilty that you cannot enjoy it.

- Helen Thomson

The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn’t pose. He isn’t aware of the camera.

- Patrick Demarchelier

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

- Mark Twain

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.

- Samuel Butler

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures. The give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.

- Gilda Radner

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks.

- Roger A. Caras

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

- Orhan Pamuk

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.

- Moby

Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes.

- Gene Hill

The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.

- Stanley Coren

Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.

- Sue Murphy

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

- Harry S Truman

What do dogs do on their day off? Can’t lie around – that’s their job!

- George Carlin

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

- John Steinbeck

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

- John Steinbeck

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

- Sue Murphy

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

- Josh Billings

Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.

- John Grogan

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wears a tail.

 - Fran Lebowitz

My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.

- Anne Lamott

I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross, and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

- Mark Haddon

There is no faith which has never yet been broken except that of a truly faithful dog.

- Konrad Lorenz

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive.

- Gilda Radner

I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs.

- Barbara Woodhouse

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

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.

- Fran Lebowitz

It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?

- Eleanor H. Porter

When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often.  But if a man bites a dog, that is news.

- John B. Bogart Quotes

It’s tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won’t drink from my glass.

- Rodney Dangerfield

Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, and filling an emptiness we didn’t ever know we had.

- Thom Jones