dog quotations and proverbs
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. (Groucho Marx)
One reason the dog has so many friends: He wags his tail instead of his tongue.
(anonymous)
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
(Aldous Leonard Huxley, British writer)
Beware of silent dogs and still waters.
(Portuguese proverb)
Never trust a dog to watch your food.
(Patrick, age 10, Advice from Kids)
Dogs wait for us faithfully
(Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
(Roger Caras)
My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.
(anonymous)
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated (Gandhi)
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. (Albert Schweitzer)
Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for animals... But if we stop loving animals, aren't we bound to stop loving humans, too?
(Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise. (anonymous)
What counts is not necessarily the size
of the dog in the fight,
but the fight in the dog.
(Dwight Eisenhower)
Dogs never lie about love.
(Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson)
To be without a dog is worse than being without a song.
(Henry Beetle Hough)
Dogs don't mind being photographed in compromising situations.
(Elliott Erwitt)