Quotations about dogs and puppies, from The Quote Garden. The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother — and they'll settle for.
Revving up the new week, here are the best dog quotes from the ‘Dog with Blog’s facebook page’. There is something about these dog quotes that adds a tincture of humor to spruce up your day and at times the whimsical poignancy of the written word to caress you into a lullaby, with your dog by your side, of course!
Everyone in this frame is adopted; minus the lady 🙂
A dog doesn’t care if you’re rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. ~Marley & Me
27. “When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.” — Edward Abbey
28. “My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can’t decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.” — Rita Rudner
29. “Dog love is safer, perhaps more satisfying: Dogs can’t betray us, undermine us, tell us they’re angry or bored. Dogs can’t leave.” — John Katz
30. “A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won’t be too bad.” —Robert Wagner
31. “Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?” —Gabrielle Zevin
32. “We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.” —Max DePree
33. “I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.” —Doris Day
34. “My dogs have been the reason I have woken up every single day of my life with a smile on my face.” —Jennifer Skiff
35. “Only my dogs will not betray me.” —Maria Callas
36. “A dog creates, transcribes, a new landscape for you. A dog like Colter sharpens your joy of all the seasons, and for a while, sometimes a long while, such a dog seems capable, by himself alone, of holding time in place–of pinning it, and holding it taught. And then when he is gone, it is as if the world is taken away.Dogs like that are young for what seems like a very long time….One you have lost a dog–especially the first you trained from a pup, the one you first set sail into the world with–you can never fully give of yourself to another dog. You can never again look at a dog you love without hedging a tiny bit, if only subconsciously, against the day when that dog, too, must leave. You can never again hunt or enter the future so recklessly, so joyously, with that weight of forethought….As I sleep restlessly, night after night, or more often, as I lie there awake, I can see him running and I feel guilty that I am not there to honor the birds he is finding… One way or the other, he is still out there running. He will never rest…. I will always want him to know a moment’s rest, and peace, and he will always know in his hot heart that the only peace to be gotten is by never resting, by always pushing on.He is my Colter…. I am still his, and he is still mine.” ― Rick Bass, Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had
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These 20 dog quotes along with adorable photos describe a perfect relationship between humans & dogs. Scroll to the bottom to find a list of dog shelters. 13. Child of Nature – Guwahati. 14. Jeev Aasharaya – Lucknow. 15.
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Dogs can be many things. They are there to cheer you up when you feel blue, they shower unconditional love and make you want to be a better person. But these furry friends are not always lucky enough to get a loving master. They are abandoned many a times and are in need of the love and support they deserve. Here are 20 amazing quotes that will make any dog lovers’ day. And if these inspire you to extend your support to distressed dogs, check out the list of shelter homes that you can contact below.
“You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, ‘Wow, you’re right! I never would’ve thought of that!” — Dave Barry, author
“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.” — Josh Billings
“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 world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.” ― M.K. Clinton
“Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?” — Jonathan Safran Foer
“When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it’s hard to feel sad.” ― Kristan Higgins
“Dogs don’t rationalize. They don’t hold anything against a person. They don’t see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.” — Cesar Millan , dog trainer
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” — Will Rogers
“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
“Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center 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 Caras
“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. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.” — John Grogan
“My goal in life is to be as good a person my dog already thinks I am.” – 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
“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
“Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail.” – Josh Billings
“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
“A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.” – O. A.
“A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things – a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.” ― John Grogan
“Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colours but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.” – Caroline Knapp
“Acquiring a dog may be the only time a person gets to choose a relative.” – Unknown
While some dogs are lucky enough to get a loving home to take care of their every need, there are a few unfortunate ones who struggle to survive each day. Abandoned, injured, distressed and sick dogs are often taken in by the shelter homes, who then try to bring their lives back to normal. Here is a list of a few shelter homes you can contact to extend a helping hand to dogs in need –
1. Friendicoes – Delhi
2. Precious Paws – Bengaluru
3. Pet Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) – Delhi
4. Humane Society for the Protection and Care of Animals (HSPCA) – Hyderabad
5. Karuna Animal Welfare Association of Karnataka – Bengaluru
6. In Defence of Animals – Mumbai
7. Red Paws Rescue – Delhi
8. Compassion Unlimited Plus Action (CUPA) – Bengaluru
9. Blue Cross of India – Chennai
10. Sanjay Gandhi Animal Care Center (SGACC) – Delhi
11. Help In Suffering – Jaipur
12. People for Animals – Kolkata
13. Child of Nature – Guwahati
14. Jeev Aasharaya – Lucknow
15. Animal Aid Unlimited – Udaipur
16. Dharamsala Animal Rescue – Dharamsala
17. Visakha Society for Protection and Care of Animals (VSPCA) – Vishakhapatnam
Do tell us about dog shelters in your city so we can add to the list.
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These 24 quotes are about families, kids and dogs. Some of them are a hoot, while others are a bit more reflective on what it means to have a dog in the family.
When he came up two days short, he didn't get a dog. That was harsh. It was wise, but harsh.
Chris Affleck, on how she dealt with her son Ben Affleck wanting a dog as a boy. (She made him walk an imaginary dog for seven days.)
Every boy should have two things: a dog, and a mother willing to let him have one.
Anonymous
Every boy who has a dog should also have a mother, so the dog can be fed regularly.
Anonymous
There is only one smartest dog in the world, and every boy has it.
Anonymous
What are little boys made of?
Frogs and snails,
And puppy dog tails.
That's what little boys are made of.
Anonymous
The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.
Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley
Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
Robert Benchley
The ideal age for a boy to own a dog is between forty-five and fifty.
Robert Benchley
I have consolidated all the Erma Bombeck dog quotes here.
Give a boy a dog and you've furnished him a playmate.
Berton Braley
For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog.
Roger Caras
A house is not a home until it has a dog.
Gerald Durrell
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs.
Dakota Fanning, child actress
I was three years old. I was messing with my grandparents' dog in Las Vegas, and he decided to pick me up by my head and run around the backyard with me.
Brian Austin Green
Our house was always filled with dogs... They helped make our house a kennel, it is true, but the constant patter of their filthy paws and the dreadful results of their brainless activities have warmed me throughout the years.
Helen Hayes
Every time I told my cocker spaniel, Taffy, my very first dog, that we were going for a walk, she would launch into a celebratory dance that ended with her racing around the room, always clockwise, and faster and faster, as if her joy could not be possibly contained. Even as a young boy I knew that hardly any creature could express joy so vividly as a dog.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said—yet this was totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.
Willie Morris, My Dog Skip
A man down in Texas heard Pat on the radio mention the fact that our two daughters would like to have a dog. And believe it or not, the day before we left on this campaign trip we got a message from Union Station in Baltimore, saying they had a package for us. We went down to get it.
You know what it was? It was a little cocker spaniel in a crate that he sent all the way from Texas.... And our little girl, Tricia, the six-year-old, named it Checkers. And you know the kids love the dog and I just want to say this, right now, that regardless of what they [the Press] have to say about it, we are going to keep it.
Richard M. Nixon, speaking on TV about the dog given to him after he was accused of accepting improper gifts.
This speech later became known as the Checkers speech, and saved Nixon's political career. It also made Checkers one of the most famous dogs in political history.
The body of Checkers was exhumed three years after Nixon died, and moved to the Nixon Library grounds, near the graves of the late president and his wife.
The only one of our children who has not disillusioned us.
Carlotta O'Neill, on Blemie, her and husband Eugene's dog
The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother—and they'll settle for a puppy every time.
Winston Pendleton
My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was "good for me" to have a dog for a companion. Well it was good for me, but it was only many years after she died that I began to understand how good it was, and why.
Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers)
In his grief over the loss of a dog, a little boy stands for the first time on tiptoe, peering into the rueful morrow of manhood. After this most inconsolable of sorrows there is nothing life can do to him that he will not be able somehow to bear.
James Thurber
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Thornton Wilder
No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.
Bern Williams
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Even so, Americans love for dogs is immeasurable. Here is a collection of 25 adorable, inspirational quotes about dogs from authors, actors, politicians Why People Believe Harry and Meghan Are Lying About Baby Archie.
A dog may be man's best friend, but a child's best friend is a puppy. Unknown
The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift. Konrad Lorenz
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
Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching. Rudyard Kipling
If you would invest in a friendship, purchase a dog. Le Baron Cooke
Rambunctious and delinquent dogs become angelic when sitting. Dr. Ian Dunbar
Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of its tail. Josh Billings
I've seen a look in dog's eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. John Steinbeck
My little dog, a heartbeat at my feet. Edith Wharton
The censure of a dog is something no man can stand. Christopher Morley
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's. Mark Twain
The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother---and they'll settle for a puppy every time. Winston Pendleton
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. Milton Kundera
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs. James Thurber
If a dog will not come to you having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. Harry S. Truman
It's impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more puppies. Unknown
No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it. Unknown
The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic. Henry Ward Beecher
Extraordinary creature. So close a friend, yet so remote. Thomas Mann
Puppies are nature's remedy for feeling unloved...plus numerous other ailments of life. Richard Allen Palm
No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend. Will Rogers
The disposition of a noble dog is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know. Plato
Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies. Gene Hill
In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog. Edward Hoagland
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be long before any of us. Robert Louis Stevenson
If it wasn't for puppies, some people would never go for a walk. Anonymous
When a puppy wags its tail and barks at the same time, how do you know which end to believe? Anonymous
No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich. Louis Sabin.
I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source. Doris Day
These inspirational dog quotes are a testament to man's love for dogs. The PupLife staff has compiled this list of our favorite quotes about dogs. "The gift which I.
