Dog Quotes

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.

Sometimes, if you're lucky, someone comes into your life who'll take up a place in your heart that no one else can fill, someone who's tighter than a twin, more with you than your own shadow, who gets deeper under your skin than your own blood and bones.

If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog,
in any fight,
the lions will die like a dog.
But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion,
all dogs will fight as a lion

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

Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.

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

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

You treat me like a dog and you expect me to smile? You remind me of a jackass.

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

Lower your gaze because you become less of a human every time you stare at a woman and you stare at her like she's a piece of meat, like she's an animal. That just means you've lost respect for a fellow human being. You're looking at her like an ape looks at a female ape, like a dog looks at a female dog.That's all, you've turned into an animal. Regain your humanity. Lower your gaze.

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

This soldier,
I realized,
must have had friends at home and in his regiment;
yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog.
I looked on,
unmoved,
at battles which decided the future of nations.
Tearless,
I had given orders which brought death to thousands.
Yet here I was stirred,
profoundly stirred,
stirred to tears.
And by what? By the grief of one dog.
Napoleon Bonaparte,
on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master,
licking his face and howling,
on a moonlit field after a battle.
Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.

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.

I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.

Dogs are animals that poop in public and you're supposed to pick it up. After a week of doing this, you've got to ask yourself, "Who's the real master in this relationship?"

Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?

When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once.

The snake, the rat, the cat, the dog... How you gonna see 'em if you livin' in the fog?

According to a new survey, 90% of men say their lover is also their best friend. Which is really kind of disturbing when you consider man's best friend is his dog.

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

If you can sit quietly after difficult news; if in financial downturns you remain perfectly calm; if you can see your neighbors travel to fantastic places without a twinge of jealousy; if you can happily eat whatever is put on your plate; you can fall asleep after a day of running around without a drink or a pill; if you can always find contentment just where you are: you are probably a dog.

So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it’s not your history but your presence on your mat that counts.

Any woman who does not thoroughly enjoy tramping across the country on a clear frosty morning with a good gun and a pair of dogs does not know how to enjoy life.

Since every school in India teaches English, why can't it be our link language? Why do Tamils have to study English for communication with the world and Hindi for communications within India? Do we need a big door for the big dog and a small door for the small dog? I say, let the small dog use the big door too!

A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men,
though he is needed as vultures are needed,
but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble.
I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty,
dull,
almost witless,
crafty or stupid,
an oppressor or a thief,
a holder of little authority in which he delights,
as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog.
Who can trust such creatures?

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

Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift.

If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn’t you help him?

If a man whistles at you, don't turn around. You are a lady not a dog.

I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.

When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary glands grows weaker and weaker and finally drops to zero.

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

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

I always call niggas fools for wanting to learn the hard way. When I'm really the fool for tryna teach 'em. When the blinds leading the blind. You can't reach 'em. If niggas ain't as hungry as you then why feed 'em? Niggas ain't tryna be lead then why lead 'em? Having big problems with your dogs, why breed em?

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.

Your dog thinks you're a god. Your cat thinks the dog's an asshole.

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

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

Just thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame.

The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black people, or face the wrath of the armed people.

So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it.

The more I see of men, the better I like my dog.

You win over people just like you win over a dog. You see a dog passing down the street with an old bone in his mouth. You don't grab the bone from him and tell him it's not good for him. He'll growl at you. It's the only thing he has. But you throw a big fat lamb chop in front of him, and he's going to drop that bone and pick up the lamb chop, his tail wagging to beat the band. And you've got a friend. Instead of going around grabbing bones from people... I'm going to throw them some lamb chops. Something with real meat and life in it. I'm going to tell them about New Beginnings.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

Never trust a dog to watch your food.