Quotes about dog
dog crazy mean
I have no reason to influence people. I just want to have it all for myself. I just want someone to pat me on the back. (laugh) It's crazy. It seems just completely ridiculous. I don't know why. I mean, three years ago, I wouldn't be able to influence my dog to walk. Robert Pattinson
dog men world
Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives. Robert Louis Stevenson
dog cat eye
It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man's plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed. Thenceforth he was a gentleman of leisure; and except the few whom we keep working, the whole race grew more and more self-conscious, mannered and affected.
dog animal thinking
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
dog care might
With great care we might have a dog's chance, but no more. Robert Falcon Scott
dog training demand
The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.
dog reality fierce
Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.
dog faces driving
Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.
dog training moments
The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.
dog men race
Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood. Robert E. Howard
dog kings lying
What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs—I was a man before I was a king.
dog men trying
Man tries to swallow meaning whole as a dog would eat his dinner. Walt Kelly
dog real looks
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.
dog foam rich
Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. Wally Lamb
dog couple giving
Being a celebrity doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs — and if being a celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all. Walt Disney
dog sleep pet
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion. Washington Irving
dog monkeys candide
Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are. Voltaire
dog may littles
That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally. William Feather
dog years two
At the time my dog had a fungus on her chest that wouldn't heal and resisted treatment. I made an ointment with our product and it cleared up in two days. She lived to 17 years. William Standish Knowles
dog pavlov
I'll be Pavlov, you be the dog. William Stafford
dog fun empty-vessels
You cannot teach an old dog new tricks William Camden
dog tricks teach
It is hard to teach an old dog tricks.
dog sleep doors
A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour, Reigns o'er the fields; the laborer sits within His dwelling; he has left his steers awhile, Unyoked, to bite the herbage, and his dog Sleeps stretched beside the door-stone in the shade. Now the gray marmot, with uplifted paws, No more sits listening by his den, but steals Abroad, in safety, to the clover-field, And crops its juicy-blossoms. William C. Bryant
dog cat boys
Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could talk of their oppressors with a studied violence, add our strength to theirs, even organize the oppressed and like good politicians sell our charity for power. William Butler Yeats
dog heart eye
What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible.
dog horse eye
One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot see, and men who live primitive lives where instinct does the work of reason are fully conscious,of many things we cannot perceive at all. As life becomes more orderly, more deliberate, the supernatural world sinks farther away.
dog fleas
But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
dog moon world
Because the priest must have like every dog his day Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon, We and our dolls being but the world were best away.
dog men share
He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood. Walter Scott
dog toil deceit
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
dog sorry loss
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
dog short-life loss
I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?
dog children
The more I see of dogs, the more I like children. Winifred Holtby