dog quotes

“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

“The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Our dog died from licking our wedding picture. ”

— Phyllis Diller

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.”

— Moliere

“To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.”

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Lord Byron

“Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.”

— Quentin Tarantino

“Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room. ”

— Quentin Tarantino

“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants. ”

— Johnny Depp

“There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.”

— Audrey Hepburn

“I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!”

— Audrey Hepburn

“In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is 'Wag the Dog.' Everything is a structured deception.”

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Groucho Marx

“I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.”

— Dolly Parton

“The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.”

— Henry Rollins

“We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

“Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.”

— Bertrand Russell

“I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.”

— Francis Bacon

“He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.”

— Joseph Stalin

“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 take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously.”

— Paris Hilton