75 Dog Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find best dog sayings.
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Short Dog Sayings
“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.” —Marilyn Monroe
“Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.” —Max Eastman
“Everything I know, I learned from dogs.” —Nora Roberts
“Hounds follow those who feed them.” —Otto von Bismarck
“Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.” —Quentin Tarantino
“When I needed a hand, I found your paw.” —Unknown
“For the best seat in the house, you’ll have to move the dog.” —Unknown
“If your dog doesn’t like someone you probably shouldn’t either.” —Unknown
“When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.” —Edward Abbey
“I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.” —Cesar Millan
“If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.” —Harry Truman
“Everyone thinks they have the best dog. And none of them are wrong.” —Unknown
“Love is a four legged word.” —Unknown
“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” —Roger Caras
“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.” —Charles de Gaulle
“Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.” —Agnes Sligh Turnbull
It’s impossible to forget a dog that gave you so much to remember.” —Unknown
“Dogs make for better friends than people do.” —Unknown
“One of the best things about pets is that they’re not humans.” —Joel Kanitz
“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.” —Andy Rooney
“Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.” —Orhan Pamuk
“Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.” —Elizabeth Taylor
“Dogs never lie about love.” —Jeffery Masson
Dog Sayings
“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.” —Josh Billings
“The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.” —Konrad Lorenz
“Don’t make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans, or they’ll treat you like dogs.” —Martha Scott
“Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.” —Franklin P. Jones
“My father… was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.” —Flann O’Brien
“They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.” —Amy Hempel
“The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.” —M.K. Clinton
“Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, and filling an emptiness we didn’t ever know we had.” —Thom Jones
“A friend is a friend and a dog is a dog. A friend will never be a dog, but a dog won’t ever quit being a friend.” —Unknown
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” —Anatole France
“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.” —Dean Koontz
“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.” —Emily Dickinson
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” —Will Rogers
“Happiness will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy you the wag of her tail.” —Unknown
“There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.” —Benjamin Franklin
“One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you’re feeling blue is that he doesn’t try to find out why.” —Unknown
“Having a dog will bless you with the happiest days of your life, and one of the worst days.” —Unknown
“My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can’t decide whether to ruin our carpets or ruin our lives.” —Rita Rudner
“Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.” —Kinky Friedman
“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
“What do dogs do on their day off? Can’t lie around – that’s their job.” —George Carlin
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” —Groucho Marx
“Sometimes I think I like dogs more than I like humans. The only time a dog has ever betrayed me…was by dying.” —Jose N. Harris
“When you get a dog, that dog sees you as family. Please don’t break his or her heart, a dog is for life.” —Unknown
“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
“If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.” —Unknown
“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.” —Mark Twain
The reason a dog has so many friends is because he wags his tail instead of his tongue.” —Unknown
“Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conslusive evidence that your are wonderful.” —Ann Landerss
“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
“A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.” —Barbara Kingsolver
“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.” —Alexander Pope
“Growing up with a dog can be one of the best learning experiences of childhood.” —Unknown
“A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won’t be too bad.” —Robert Wagner
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” —Winston S. Churchill
“You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.” —W. Bruce Cameron
“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
“My sunshine doesn’t come from the skies, it comes from the love in my dog’s eyes.” —Unknown
“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.” —Johnny Depp
“The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.” —Unknown
“A dog can express more with his tail in seconds than his owner can express with his tongue in hours.” —Unknown
Top Ten Dog Sayings
Here you will find top ten Dog Sayings selected by our team.
- “Dogs never bite me. Just humans.” —Marilyn Monroe
- “Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.” —Emily Dickinson
- “You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.” —W. Bruce Cameron
- “When I needed a hand, I found your paw.” —Unknown
- “A friend is a friend and a dog is a dog. A friend will never be a dog, but a dog won’t ever quit being a friend.” —Unknown
- “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
- “There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.” —Benjamin Franklin
- “The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.” —Unknown
- “A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.” —Josh Billings
- “The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.” —Charles de Gaulle