The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift.
— Konrad Lorenz
Devotion Puppy Dog quotations

The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.
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.
There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog.
You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
The more boys I meet the more I love my dog.
The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable possession of mankind

What a beautiful world it would be if people had hearts like dogs.
Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.
A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.
A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.

If your dog doesn’t like someone you probably shouldn’t, either.
You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.
The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.
Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.

Be the person your dog thinks you are.
I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs.
The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.
In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.
No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich.
When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
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.'
If a picture wasn't going very well I'd put a puppy dog in it, always a mongrel, you know, never one of the full bred puppies. And then I'd put a bandage on its foot... I liked it when I did it, but now I'm sick of it.
I would rather be beaten and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog. I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless[ly] and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized.

My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.
Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.
The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.
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.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
...he will be our friend for always and always and always.
I just read a book on how to get control of my time and therefore of my life.
My time has always had a tendency to slip away from me and do as it pleases. My life follows it, like a puppy after an untrained bird dog. Come night, my life shows up, usually covered with mud and full of stickers, exhausted but grinning happily. My time never returns.
No man can be condemned for owning a dog.
As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.

You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.
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.
A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.
The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.
Hounds follow those who feed them.
I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.
Every dog has it's day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weakend.
Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include . . . well, EVERYTHING.