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The best quotes about dogs
June 22, 2023
Dogs are fantastic: they’re loving, inquisitive, furry bundles of joy, from the smallest Yorkshire Terriers all the way up to the biggest, lumbering St. Bernards. All over the world, they’re companions, hard workers or cherished members of families.
In this blog, we’re sharing the love with a selection of the best dog quotes that people have coined over the years. From the inspirational through the funny to the most thought-provoking, we hope they make you feel all warm and fuzzy about our canine friends – and maybe even spark some entrepreneurial desire, too.
Inspirational quotes about dogs
“Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.” – Kinky Friedman
“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
“To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.” – Aldous Huxley
“No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you feel rich.” – Louis Sabin
“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.” – Josh Billings
“The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.” – Stanley Coren
“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 a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.” – Woodrow Wilson
“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
“When an 85 pound mammal licks your tears away, and then tries to sit on your lap, it’s hard to feel sad.” – Kristan Higgins
“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 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
“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
Funny dog quotes
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” – Will Rogers
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” – Groucho Marx
“What do dogs do on their day off? Can’t lie around – that’s their job!” – George Carlin
“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.” – Charles de Gaulle
“I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.” – Rita Rudner
“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
“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
“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.” – Marilyn Monroe
“Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.” – Jodi Picoult
“Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.” – Franklin P. Jones
“Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the centre 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
“Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot’s mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine.” – Terry Pratchett
“You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.” – Harry Truman
“It’s tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won’t drink from my glass.” – Rodney Dangerfield
“Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” – Ann Landers
“Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks.” – Roger A. Caras
“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
“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.” – Andy Rooney
“Dogs teach us a very important lesson in life: The mail man is not to be trusted.” – Sian Ford
“My cats inspire me daily. They inspire me to get a dog!” – Greg Curtis
“Even the tiniest Poodle or Chihuahua is still a wolf at heart.” – Dorothy Hinshaw
Thought-provoking dog quotes
“Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.”– Orhan Pamuk
“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
“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
“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 you adopt a dog, you have a lot of very good days and one very bad day.” – W. Bruce Cameron
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 realise that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.” – Christopher Hitchens
“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
“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” – Mark Twain
“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
“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
“I don’t understand people who don’t touch their pets. Their cat or dog is called a pet for a reason.” – Jarod Kintz
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” – Winston Churchill
“Intelligent dogs rarely want to please people whom they do not respect.” – W.R. Koehler
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If the quotes above inspire you and remind you why you love dogs so much, have you thought about turning that love into a business opportunity? One area where dog-lovers can easily set up their own enterprise is through a dog walking business, where you walk owners’ treasured pets in your local area in exchange for a fee.
It’s a great way of becoming your own boss, spending time with some great dogs and earning some really good money (especially if you can walk multiple dogs simultaneously). But if you do pursue the idea, make sure you take out good-quality insurance cover, so that you don’t end up out of pocket if something unforeseen happens to one of the dogs you’re in charge of – or yourself.
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