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“I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Epigrams--On the Collar of a Dog
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“To be, contents his natural desire,
He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire;
But thinks, admitted to that equal sky,
His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense
Weigh thy opinion against Providence.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 109)
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“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than
of friends.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Letters to and from H. Cromwell, Esq.--Letter X
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“The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites.
[Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet.]”
Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus) Quotes Source: De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (VII, 14)
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“I have a dog of Blenheim birth,
With fine long ears and full of mirth;
And sometimes, running o'er the plain,
He tumbles on his nose:
But quickly jumping up again,
Like lightning on he goes!”
John Ruskin Quotes Source: My Dog Dash
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“The little dogs and all,
Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart--see, they bark at me.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: King Lear (King Lear at III, vi)
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“Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? . . . And the
creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great
image of authority--a dog's obeyed in office.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: King Lear (King Lear at IV, vi)
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“We are two travellers, Roger and I.
Roger's my dog--come here, you scamp!
Jump for the gentleman--mind your eye!
Over the table,--look out for the lamp!
The rogue is growing a little old;
Five years we've tramped through wind and weather,
And slept out-doors when nights were cold,
And ate and drank and starved together.”
John T. Trowbridge Quotes Source: The Vagabonds
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“Gentlemen of the Jury: The one, absolute, unselfish friend that
man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts
him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his
dog.
- George Graham Vest, Eulogy on the Dog,”
George Graham Vest Quotes Source: Eulogy on the Dog, found in Elbert Hubbard's "Pig-Pen Pete", p. 178
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“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.”
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“The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may -make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.”
Samuel Butler Quotes |
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“Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant.”
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“Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant.”
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“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.”
Christopher Morley Quotes |
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“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.”
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“Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies.”
Gene Hill Quotes |
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“Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.”
Francis Galton Quotes |
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“Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.”
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“The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.”
Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
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“If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them.”
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“In dog years, I'm dead.”
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“In dog years, I'm dead.”
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“To his dog, every man is Napolean, hence the constant popularity of dogs.”
Aldous Huxley Quotes |
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“No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation."”
Fran Lebowitz Quotes |
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“If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater. . . suggest that he wear a tail.”
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