dogs Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

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“Every dog has his day - but the nights are reserved for the cats”
Roger Caras Quotes
“If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk.”
Emily Dickinson Quotes
“In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.”
Mark Twain Quotes
“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”
Dave Barry Quotes
“It is bad to awaken a sleeping dog. [It., Il fait mal eveiller le chien qu dort.]”
Unknown Quotes
“It is bad to awaken a sleeping dog. [It., Il fait mal eveiller le chien qu dort.]”
Unknown Quotes
“Do not disturb the sleeping dog. [It., Non stuzzicare il can che dorme.]”
Allessandro Allegri Quotes
Source: Rime e Prose
“He was such a dear little cock-tailed pup.”
Richard Harris Barham Quotes
Source: Mr. Peter's Story
“Who loves me will love my dog also. [Fr., Que me amat, amet et canem meum.]”
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
Source: Sermo Primus
“For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. IX, v. 4)
“And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The Lord hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.”
Bible Quotes
Source: II Kings (ch. VIII, v. 13)
“But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.”
Bible Quotes
Source: II Peter (ch. II, v. 22)
“And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Matthew (ch. XV, v. 27)
“On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I; No harp like my own could so cheerily play, And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.”
Thomas Campbell Quotes
Source: The Harper
“His faithful dog salutes the smiling guest.”
Thomas Campbell Quotes
Source: Pleasure of Hope (pt. I, l. 86)
“Mother of dead dogs.”
Thomas Campbell Quotes
Source: Pleasure of Hope (pt. I, l. 86)
“It is nought good a sleeping hound wake.”
Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
Source: Troilus and Criseyde (III, 764)
“Old dog Tray's ever faithful; Grief can not drive him away; He is gentle, he is kind-- I shall never, never find A better friend than old dog Tray!”
Stephen Collins Foster Quotes
Source: Old Dog Tray
“And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound, And curs of low degree.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Source: Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
“The more one comes to know men, the more one comes to admire the dog. [Lat., Plus on apprend a connaltre l'homme, plus on apprend a estimer le chien.]”
Joussenel Quotes
Source: quoted in Paul Franche's "La Legende Doree des Betes", p. 191
“There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers and sisters I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.”
Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Source: The Power of the Dog
“The more I see the representatives of the people, the more I love my dogs. [Fr., Plus je vois des representants du peuple, plus j'aime mes chiens.]”
Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes
Source: quoted in a letter from Comte Alfred d'Orsay to John Forster
“Who loves me loves my dog. [Lat., Qui m'aime il aime mon chien.]”
A.J.V. Le Reux de Lincy Quotes
Source: French Proverbs, 13th century
“But in come canine Paradise Your wraith, I know, rebukes the moon, And quarters every plain and hill, Seeking its master. . . . As for me This prayer at least the gods fulfill That when I pass the flood and see Old Charon by Stygian coast Take toll of all the shades who land, Your little, faithful barking ghost May leap to lick my phantom hand.”
St. John Welles Lucas Quotes
Source: To a Dog
“Whosoever loveth me loveth my hound.”
Sir Thomas More Quotes
Source: First Sermon on the Lord's Prayer