Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's an end of the season celebration to dog ownership. There's always such good energy. It's a spectacle.

It's good for conditioning if the dog is out of shape, also recovery from surgery. Now that we've been going swimming, and on the underwater treadmill for 10 or so visits, she has an easier time keeping up.

It's going to be a dog fight to the end. Nobody's going to hand it to us.

Eric Johnson

It's fun for 3-year-olds. But older kids will also enjoy dogs playing ball, driving a car, working with different tools. Stuff humans do.

Dallas Clark

Everyone and their dog is going to be saying, 'This is Mike's fault,' but it's not his fault at all. We didn't do our job and it shouldn't have been (on him).

That's not dirt. That's trampled down dog doo.

Everybody knows about our two big dogs. But we've had a lot of people step up this year for us.

Everyone's safe. She had just taken my grandson to a ski trip. He's going up to Jack Frost Mountain, so he knows nothing about it right now. My granddaughter was with her. They're all safe. The dog is out, he's safe too.

Bear Bryant

it's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog

It's surprising there aren't more dog beaches. They love it out here. It wears them out so they'll sleep like babies.

It's the owner who makes a dog mean. But if you teach a dog to be gentle and calm, that's how it will be.

Kobe Bryant

It just happened. It's tough to explain. I would have been sick as a dog if we would have lost this game.

Gladys Taber

I love both the way a dog looks up to me and a cat condescends to me.

Gladys Taber

I know of nothing to compare with the welcome a dog gives you when you come home.

Gladys Taber

Dog lovers are a good breed themselves.

Geri Halliwell

Competition is for dogs and horses.

Geraldine Brooks

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.

Gerard De Nerval

Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? ... or a cat, or a gazelle, or a lion, or any other animal one chooses to take for a walk? I have a liking for lobsters. They are peaceful, serious creatures. ... Goethe had an aversion to dogs, and he wasn't mad. They know the secrets of the sea, they don't bark.

Herman Melville

Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them.

Herman Melville

When my eye rested on an arid height, spirit partook of the barrenness. - Heartily wish Niebuhr & Strauss to the dogs. The deuce take their penetration & acumen. They have robbed us of the bloom.

Herman Melville

That hour in the life of a man when first the help of humanity fails him, and he learns that in his obscurity and indigence humanity holds him a dog and no man: that hour is a hard one, but not the hardest. There is still another hour which follows, when he learns that in his infinite comparative minuteness and abjectness, the gods do likewise despise him, and own him not of their clan.

Herman Melville

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.

Henry David Thoreau

All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of nature's health orsound state.

Henry David Thoreau

The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient with the gravel, sits afar and retired, off the road, hangs out no sign of refreshment for man and beast, but says, by all possible hints and signs, I wish to be alone,--good-by,--fare-well. But the Landlord can afford to live without privacy.

Henry David Thoreau

The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music does. It depends on your appetite for sound. Just as a crust is sweeter to a healthy appetite than confectionery to a pampered or diseased one.

Henry David Thoreau

Methinks some creeds in vestries and churches do forget the hunter wrapped in furs by the Great Slave Lake, and that the Esquimauxsledges are drawn by dogs, and in the twilight of the northern night the hunter does not give over to follow the seal and walrus on the ice. They are of sick and diseased imaginations who would toll the world's knell so soon. Cannot these sedentary sects do better than prepare the shrouds and write the epitaphs of those other busy living men? The practical faith of all men belies the preacher's consolation.

Henry David Thoreau

The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the civil exhortations or war sermons of the age.

Henry David Thoreau

Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with the ancients, or eventhe Elizabethan men. But what is that to the purpose? A living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

Henry David Thoreau

I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men themselves have some wild oats still left to sow before they become submissive members of society. Undoubtedly, all men are not equally fit subjects for civilization; and because the majority, like dogs and sheep, are tame by inherited disposition, this is no reason why the others should have their natures broken that they may be reduced to the same level.

Gypsy Rose Lee

A naked dog for a naked lady.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He certainly deserved the name better than those who had assumed it.

Jillian Michaels

Play with your kids. Limit their TV time. Get outdoors and chase them around. Wrestle with them. Walk the dog. Go bike riding. The reality is that your kids are not stupid, and they know when they are overweight Start walking the dog after dinner instead of watching TV. You don't want them going on the Web to find ways to lose weight. That's when you'll find them eating tissue paper because they read that a supermodel did it.

Jeremy Bentham

What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as more conversable animal, than an infant of a day or a week or even a month old. But suppose they were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason?, nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes...