Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clarence Day

Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.

Elizabeth Holmes

Although the decision to get a dog can seem light on the surface, it's actually a long-term commitment much like a human mate. The consequences of a bad decision can be difficult for everyone involved.

Elizabeth Holmes

Don't decide on a dog based on looks either, much like with people, looks and first impressions can be deceiving.

Elizabeth Janeway

The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if man was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a city where animals occurred behind bars in the zoo.

Elizabeth I

I don't keep a dog and bark myself.

B. C. Forbes

Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.

Asa Larsson

The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'.

Arthur Guiterman

Scheme not to make what's Another's your own; Be not a Dog for the sake of a Bone.

Arthur Guiterman

Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is the little lost pup with his tail tucked in.

Bear Bryant

But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance. If you do, the rest falls into place. You have to have good assistants, and a lot of things, but first you have to have the chairman of the board.

Barbara Corcoran

I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.

Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

Ashley Greene

I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I don't have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don't want to and that I'll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs.

One of my dogs lost his footing. Between maneuvering the sled and trying to see through the snow, I wanted to make sure I saw a marker first.

Tre Cool

Some day dogs will take over the world!!!

Show a dog a finger, and he wants the whole hand

Since this harness goes on so easily, the dog only knows that his feet were moved. Some dogs simply wait either sitting or standing not realizing that they are leashed.

Military canines make contributions every day while they serve in our military. They are hard working and do a great job of saving the lives of their handlers and the troops who walk in their footsteps.

Bruce Willis

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

What is really special about dogs is they're really similar to even human toddlers.

When dogs and humans make eye contact, that actually releases what's known as the love hormone, oxytocin, in both the dog and the human.

When dogs are actually looking at you, they're essentially hugging you with their eyes.

Brian Helgeland

I think test screenings with an audience are useful because they have no dog in the fight, they just say how they feel.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' The dog did nothing in the night-time.' That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.

Archie Panjabi

I am still married, yes - no children. I have Benzo, though; he's my dog, a Lhasa apso.

Aravind Adiga

A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was a knotted rope, the kind that women use in villages to pull water from wells; the clavicle curved around his neck in high relief, like a dog's collar; cuts and nicks and scars, like little whip marks in his flesh, ran down his chest and waist, reaching down below his hip bones into his buttocks. The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

Barbara Kingsolver

Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall and a waiter hustles through a curtain of jasmine to bring a bowl of tortilla soup, steaming with cilantro and lime. Cats stalk lizards among the clay pots around the fountain, doves settle into the flowering vines and coo their prayers, thankful for the existence of lizards. The potted plants silently exhale, outgrowing their clay pots. Like Mexico's children they stand pinched and patient in last year's too-small shoes.

Barbara Kingsolver

there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!

Barbara Kingsolver

A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.

Barbara Kingsolver

Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

Charlie Daniels

We're gonna hunt you down like a mad dog hound and make you pay for the lives you stole,

Barbara Mertz

Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything - including their own sins.