Top 90 Dog Quotes

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Dogs are known as man’s best friend. With that in mind, check out the top 90 dog quotes.

#90 – 80. Dog Quotes

90. If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.  – Albert Einstein

89. The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. – Charles De Gaulle

88. A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat’s eyes don’t even look entirely warm-blooded to me, whereas a dog’s eyes look human except less guarded. A dog will look at you as if to say, ‘What do you want me to do for you? I’ll do anything for you.’ Whether a dog can in fact, do anything for you if you don’t have sheep [I never have] is another matter. The dog is willing. – Roy Blount Jr.

87. But humans drive the cars and decide when dogs eat and where dogs live and clearly this was something else in their power – they could find their dogs when they needed them. – W. Bruce Cameron

86. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. – Ann Landers

85. 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 A. Caras

84. There is no faith which has never yet been broken except that of a truly faithful dog.  – Konrad Lorenz

83. A well trained dog will make no attempt to share your lunch. He will just make you feel so guilty that you cannot enjoy it.  – Helen Thomson

82. 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. – John Grogan

81. If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. – Harry Truman

80. Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.– Orhan Pamuk

#79 – 70. Dog Quotes

79. 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 A. Caras

78. The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.  – Charles de Gaulle

77. 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. – Maurice Maeterlinck

76. Every dog must have his day. – Jonathan Swift

75. I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not better for it.  – Abraham Lincoln

74. Everything I know I learned from dogs. – Nora Roberts

73. Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods – Christopher Hitchens

72. 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

71. The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. – Samuel Butler

70. The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s. – Mark Twain

#69 – 60. Dog Quotes

69. 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

68. Dogs never bite me. Just Humans – Marilyn Monroe

67. You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog. – Harry Truman

66. Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.  -Kinky Friedman

65. I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive. – Gilda Radner

64. If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. – Will Rogers

63. I’m a lot less cranky when it’s just me and my dog. – Bob Peterson

62. There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog – Konrad Lorenz

61. When an 85-pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it’s hard to feel sad. – Kristan Higgins

60. The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since we humans programmed this vulnerability, it’s our responsibility to ensure that our dogs do not suffer as a result. – John Bradshaw

#59 – 50. Dog Quotes

59. 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 Cristie

58. Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses. – Elizabeth Taylor

57. Happiness is a warm puppy. – Charles Shultz

56. The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog. – M.K. Clinton

55. 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

54. My dog is half pit-bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip. – Craig Shoemaker

53. A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well – almost.  – Charlotte Gray

52. A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. – Josh Billings

51. Did you know that there are over 300 words for love in canine? – Gabriel Zevin

50. If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.  – Capek

#49 – 40. Dog Quotes

49. My little dog – a heartbeat at my feet. – Edith Wharton

48. They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation. – Jerome K. Jerome

47. The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his. – James Thurber

46. The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be. – Konrad Lorenz

45. The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.  – Andy Rooney

44. If you don’t own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life. – Roger A. Caras

43. I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. – Winston Churchill

42. I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs.  – Barbara Woodhouse

41. 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. – Milan Kundera

40. A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.– Josh Billings

#39 – 30. Dog Quotes

39. Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job. – Franklin P. Jones

38. Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes. – Gene Hill

37. What do dogs do on their day off? Can’t lie around – that’s their job. – George Carlin

36. You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him. – W. Bruce Cameron

35. 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

34. Science has so far been unable to tell us how self-aware dogs are, much less whether they have anything like our conscious thoughts. This is not surprising, since neither scientists nor philosophers can agree about what the consciousness of humans consists of, let alone that of animals. – John Bradshaw

33. If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. – James Thurber

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

31. 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

30. Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, and filling an emptiness we didn’t ever know we had. – Thom Jones

#29 – 20. Dog Quotes

29. Everyone thinks they have the best dog. And none of them are wrong. – W.R. Purche

28. Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot’s mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine. – Terry Pratchett

27. Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog. – Franklin P. Jones

26. No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.  – Christopher Morley

25. I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross, and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk. – Mark Haddon

24. If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man. – Mark Twain

23. Dogs teach us a very important lesson in life: The mail man is not to be trusted  – Sian Ford

22. I don’t understand people who don’t touch their pets. Their cat or dog is called a pet for a reason. – Jarod Kintz

21. When an 85 pound mammal licks your tears away, and then tries to sit on your lap, it’s hard to feel sad. – Kristan Higgins

20. The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.  – Lord Byron

#19 – 10. Dog Quotes

19. All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn’t a dog. – Charles M Schulz

18. The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them. – Stanley Coren

17. As wonderful as dogs can be, they are famous for missing the point. – Jean Ferris

16. Love – that which biologists, nervous about being misunderstood, call ‘attachment ‘- fuels the bond between dog and master or mistress. – John Bradshaw

15. It’s tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won’t drink from my glass. – Rodney Dangerfield

14. I think dogs are the most amazing creatures. The give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.  – Gilda Radner

13. No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you feel rich. – Louis Sabin

12. I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that dogs think humans are nuts.  – John Steinbeck

11. Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really. – Agnes Sligh Turnbull

10. My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day with my blankie, my cat, and my dog. – Anne Lamott

#9 – 1. Dog Quotes

9. To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. – Aldous Huxley

8. 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

7. A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me. – Barack Obama

6. Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.  – Alexander Pope

5. Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.  -John Grogan

4. I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies. – Merrill Markoe

3. Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. – Roger Caras

2. Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer. – Dean Koontz

1. 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

Top 90 dog quotes come from the following sources.^[1]American Kennel Club – Dog Quote – The Ultimate List^[2]Puppyleaks – 100 of the Best Dog Inspired Quotes