Quotations about Dogs

"The greatest problem with Irish Wolfhounds, though, is that they don't live very long:  their great hearts give out.  A good deal of this is genetic, of course, but I think it is in part that they worry so for us, care so much."
---Edward Albee

   "You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!"
--- Dave Barry

"Much has been written about the loyalty of dogs, but what I love about them isn't their devotion to me so much as their devotion to being alive.  I love their open-hearted willingness to take the world on its own terms.  Let me at it, they say; sock it to me.  Here I come, ready or not.  Let the games begin."
--- Steven Bauer

“Any man who does not like dogs and want them about, does not deserve to be in the White House.”
--- Calvin Coolidge

“I am unable to understand, how anyone can get along without some sort of pet”
--- Grace Coolidge

"On his walks Bear made friends of people of all sorts.  The littler ones responded to him instantly, as if he were a big furry stuffed toy.  Bear would give a quick kiss to each face in the seething clump of kids we walked through every school day morning; then he would move aside and sit, allowing them to crowd him with hugs and pettings, and with sweet nothings to whisper in his ear."
--- Robert Canzoneri

"If he didn't have other outlets I swear he would herd the toilet and the bathtub."
--- Roger Caras on Duncan the border collie

"Que me amat, amet et canem meum"
(Who loves me will love my dog also.)
      --- Saint Bernard of Clairvaux"

"Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails."
--- Max Eastman

"I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better."
--- George Bird Evans

"Dog! at the price of the repose which is dear to your heart, you came to me when I was dismayed and brought low."
--- Anatole France

"Scott, the Border collie, is the brightest but not the deepest of the two pets.  His herding instinct is so strong that he confuses tractors on a baseball field for sheep.  He was hospitalized twice.  Once by a line drive and once for attacking a tractor tread."
--- Tom Hayden

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
--- Robert A. Heinlein

"Dogs bark at what they don't understand."
---  Heraclitus.

"They were just animals, after all, and it seemed to me that their main preoccupation ought to be in seeking food and protection; instead they dispensed a flow of affection and loyalty which appeared to be limitless."
--- James Herriot

"If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater. . . suggest that he wear a tail."
--- Fran Lebowitz