160 Good Dog Quotes

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Famous Good Dog Quotes

Properly trained, a man can be a dog's best friend. — Corey Ford

There is honor in being a dog. — Aristotle

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

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's. — Mark Twain

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift. - Konrad Lorenz

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift. — Konrad Lorenz

A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man. — Saadi Shirazi

The dog has an enviable mind; it remembers the nice things in life and quickly blots out the nasty. — Barbara Woodhouse

Great men have great dogs. — Otto von Bismarck

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man. — Robertson Davies

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

A man's soul can be judged by the way he treats his dog. — Charles Doran

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. — Will Rogers

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. — Robert Benchley

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. — Robert Benchley

A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent. - Eugene Atget

A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent. — Eugene Atget

Short Good Dog Quotes

  • Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way. — Quentin Tarantino
  • Dogs are us, only innocent. — Cynthia Heimel
  • Dogs are my favorite people. — Richard Dean Anderson
  • The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master. — Ben Hur Lampman
  • The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. — Andy Rooney
  • Dogs never lie about love. — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
  • A dog has the soul of a philosopher. — Plato
  • To the dog who has money, men say: my lord dog. — Moroccan Proverbs
  • The more I see of men, the better I like my dog. — Frederick the Great
  • Dogs like to obey. It gives them security. — James Herriot

Good Dog Image Quotes

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards. - Diogenes quote

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards. — Diogenes

Good dog quote My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.
My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.

Good Quotes

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. — Bernard Meltzer

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. — Steven Weinberg

I've had good times and I've had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I'm in because it could steer me into a depressed state. — Kevin Gates

Good dog quote Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you. — Meek Mill

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. — Ann Landers

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. — Winston Churchill

Good dog quote You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.
You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. — Rene Descartes

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. My teacher was Ferruccio CusinatiMaria Callas

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. - Marcus Aurelius

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius

Good Morning Quotes

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Dalai Lama

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky. — Unknown Author

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. - Rumi

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. — Rumi

Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate! — Julian Bond

love the life you live. live the life you love. - Bob Marley

love the life you live. live the life you love. — Bob Marley

The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day. Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish. — Adrian Rogers

In God we trust; all others bring data. - W. Edwards Deming

In God we trust; all others bring data. — W. Edwards Deming

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning. - Meister Eckhart

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning. — Meister Eckhart

Wake up every morning with a thankful attitude. Expect something good to happen in your life today. — Joel Osteen

Great Dog Quotes

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. — William S. Burroughs

A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order. — Bud Grant

Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really. - Agnes Sligh Turnbull

Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really. — Agnes Sligh Turnbull

The more boys I meet the more I love my dog. - Carrie Underwood

The more boys I meet the more I love my dog. — Carrie Underwood

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

Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog. — Douglas Malloch

The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable possession of mankind — Theodorus Gaza

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad. — Robert Wagner

The great 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

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox. — Francois Truffaut

Pet Dog Quotes

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. — Sigmund Freud

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. — Marie Corelli

Just thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame. — Konrad Lorenz

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones. — Arthur Conan Doyle

To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different. — Ralph Boston

This dog. Is possibly the dumbest dog in the world. I’ve had him for 2 years since today He’s been my boo ever since. — PewDiePie

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. - Joseph Wood Krutch

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. — Joseph Wood Krutch

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

If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness. — Marjorie Garber

Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big. — Erica Jong

Family Dog Quotes

I was at home with my family and have a house full of puppies, and my cousin mentioned that with all the stories I have about my dogs, it might be a cool opportunity to make a memoir of sorts. — Joe Gatto

A house is not a home until it has a dog. - Gerald Durrell

A house is not a home until it has a dog. — Gerald Durrell

I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of the whole house. It keeps them all young. — John Brown

The trick is to have a career and have a family. It's like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night. — Tom Waits

No one would barbecue their family dog. Why is a cow or a pig or a chicken different? — Mike Ness

Good Viking genes, being vegetarian and having rowdy dogs and kids definitely keep me in shape. Not eating meat gives me the energy I need to keep up with work, family and travel - I'm very active. — Sayings

The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart. — Willie Morris

In the hierarchy of the family, I'm just above the dog. But I like it that way. — Jens Voigt

For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog. — Roger Caras

I miss dogs, man. I always had a family pet, always had a dog growing up. It was almost equivalent to the prison sentence, having something taken away from me for three years. I want a dog just for the sake of my kids, but also me. I miss my companions. — Michael Vick

My Dog Quotes

I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit. — Ida B. Wells

I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings. — Cesar Chavez

My next-door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration. — Gary Johnson

My neighbor has two dogs. One of them says to the other, "Woof!" The other replies, "Moo!" The dog is perplexed. "Moo? Why did you say 'Moo'?" The other dog says, "I'm trying to learn a foreign language." — Morey Amsterdam

I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky. — Audrey Hepburn

I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie', I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie. — Will Estes

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity. — Margaret Halsey

After the war, they took Army dogs and rehabilitated them for civilian life. But they turned soldiers into civilians immediately, and let em sink or swim. — Audie Murphy

My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds. — Carol Alt

The reason I love my dog so much is because when I come home, he's the only one in the world who treats me like I'm the Beatles. — Bill Maher

Old Dog Quotes

You cannot teach an old dog new tricks — William Camden

His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with salt and let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird fly in the hole and sing a simple song like a tiny bell and let it ring. — Michael Leunig

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

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to. — Joe Gores

The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people. — Daniel Pinkwater

My dear old dog, most constant of all friends. — William Croswell Doane

You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. — American Proverbs

An old dog for a hard road — Irish Proverbs

The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it. — Carlos Castaneda

Dog Love Quotes

Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity. — Anne Lamott

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants. — Johnny Depp

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. - Josh Billings

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. — Josh Billings

Sometimes, if you're lucky, someone comes into your life who'll take up a place in your heart that no one else can fill, someone who's tighter than a twin, more with you than your own shadow, who gets deeper under your skin than your own blood and bones. — Snoop Dogg

Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone. — Lenny Bruce

Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul. — Waylon Jennings

To me dogs are not the students, not the ones that need training. To me a dog is a teacher of life, who teaches us the principles of the most important moral values; honesty, integrity, loyalty, trust, respect and love. — Cesar Millan

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

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

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

Happiness is having a rare steak, a bottle of whiskey, and a dog to eat the rare steak. — Johnny Carson

Cute Dog Quotes

There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans. — Angus Young

If you make friends with dogs, they can be really cute! — Akira Toriyama

When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad. — Kristan Higgins

A dog has one aim in life... to bestow his heart. — J. R. Ackerley

When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated. — Sara Paretsky

When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said, 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.' — Rudyard Kipling

...he will be our friend for always and always and always. — Rudyard Kipling

Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished. — Dean Koontz

Hounds follow those who feed them. — Otto von Bismarck

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog. — George Bernard Shaw

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More Good Dog Quotes

Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most. — Sitting Bull

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. — George Bernard Shaw

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

The world is a den of thieves, and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a mad dog. The poison affects us all. No one escapes. Therefore let us be happy while we are happy. Let us be kind, generous, affectionate and good. It is necessary and not at all shameful to take pleasure in the little world. — Ingmar Bergman

You may have read that humans are the best endurance athletes. It's not true. We're only good in the heat, thanks to how we cool ourselves. Sled dogs are—by far—the greatest endurance athletes in the mammal kingdom. And their stats are insane. — Michael Easter

I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from coast to coast, good food and drink, a few friends, dogs, the theatre, long walks, music and free conversation. — James Hilton

The good Shepherd dog knows his master almost better than himself and must wonder indeed at the lack of the reverse. — Max von Stephanitz

I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff. — Bear Grylls

It don't care whether I'm good enough. It don't care whether I snore or not. It don't care which God I pray to. There are only three things with that kind of unconditional acceptance: Dogs, donuts, and money. — Danny Devito

A good catcher is the quarterback, the carburetor, the lead dog, the pulse taker, the traffic cop and sometimes a lot of unprintable things, but no team gets very far without one. — Miller Huggins

You're fighting a battle of good and evil with your dog pimp! Your only weapon is the shimmy! There is power in the shimmy! Make him fear your shimmy! Now, goddamnit, show me your war shimmy! — Laurie Notaro

Women are great. When they dig you, there's nothing they won't do. That kind of loyalty is hard to find - unless you've got a good dog. — David Lee Roth

I am tired of all these golfers who are happy with second place. The only one who will like you if you come in second place is your wife and your dog. And that is only if you have a good wife and a good dog. — Gary Player

You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat. — Ha Jin

Animals are good to think with. — Claude Levi-Strauss

I think the hedge-fund industry has taken a reputational turn for the worse, this dog-eat-dog stuff. I'm not just talking about Herbalife or J. C. Penney, but in other situations where the media really focuses on who's long and who's short. I don't think it's a good thing for the industry. — Bill Ackman

The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was dogs. — Robyn Davidson

A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service. — Plutarch

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. — Hunter S. Thompson

I think my favorite place to eat dinner is the movie theater. Dirty dogs, a big thing of nachos and a Cherry Coke - and I'm good. — Chris Kirkpatrick

What Joe Hamilton lacked more than anything else in the world was some one to kick him. Many a man who might have lived decently and become a fairly respectable citizen has gone to the dogs for the want of some one to administer a good resounding kick at the right time. It is corrective and clarifying. — Paul Laurence Dunbar

When people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work. Kill the grimness with laughter. Encourage exuberance. Get rid of sad dogs that spread gloom. — David Ogilvy

It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad. It's an intimate mixture of rubbish and good ideas, and it's very hard to disentangle the two, because these are smart people; they're not stupid. — Douglas Hofstadter

It seems like all the good looking people have smaller dogs these days. Especially for the women, because they always come in with their little Chihuahuas and the guys come in with their Golden Retrievers. — Elizabeth Perkins

I also have two dogs, a Chihuahua and a Yorkshire terrier, so if they like him, that's a good sign. — Christina Milian

For a good life: Work like a dog. Eat like a horse. Think like a fox. And play like a rabbit. — George Allen

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker. — Chuang Tzu

I don't believe anything can do as much for a room as a glowing fire in an attractive fireplace. Men and dogs love an open fire - they show good sense. It is the heart of any room and should be kindled on the slightest provocation. — Dorothy Draper

I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep it from such dogs. Give them no tear! Tears pleasure them! Show honor now, show a stony heart and sink them with it! — John Proctor

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker. — Buddha

...Individualistic material progress and the desire to gain prestige by coming out on top have taken over from the sense of fellowship, compassion and community. Now people live more or less on their own in a small house, jealously guarding their goods and planning to acquire more, with a notice on the gate that says, 'Beware of the Dog. — Jean Vanier

it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night. — Edna O'Brien

I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed up by work. And if I make it home in time to say good night, I may have one good hour with the girls, maybe a brief family dinner or a family walk with the dog, and then it is back on the computer to prepare for tomorrow's shows. — Mika Brzezinski

Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their companions in life. I wish I could believe that too. — Otto von Bismarck

Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun. — Groucho Marx

You'll hunt me. You'll condemn me. Set the dogs on me. Because that's what needs to happen. Because sometimes truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded. — Christian Bale

It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City. — Justin Townes Earle

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