59 Terrier Quotes
Following is our list of the most famous terrier quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational terrier quotes. Hopefully, these terrier quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your terrier knowledge!
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Famous Terrier Quotes
The thoroughbred wanderer — Sir Richard Francis Burton
Oh, that dog! Ever hear of a German Shepherd that bites its nails? Barks with a lisp? You say, "Attack!" And he has one. All he does is piddle. He's nothing but a fur-covered kidney that barks. — Phyllis Diller
The dog will always attack the one with torn trousers. — Vietnamese Proverbs
I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree. — Dana Burnet
I got a new dog. He's a paranoid retriever. He brings back everything because he's not sure what I threw him. — Steven Wright
Chihuahua. There's a waste of dog food. Looks like a dog that is still far away. — Billiam Coronel
The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.] — Ovid
My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So flew'd, so sanded; their heads are hung with ears that sweep away the morning dew. — William Shakespeare
If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it! — Nikita Khrushchev
Man, an animal that makes bargains. — Adam Smith
When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler. — Gene Simmons
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. — Mark Twain
Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long. — H. L. Mencken
Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity. — Margaret Halsey
The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman. — Albert Einstein
Short Terrier Quotes
- I also have two dogs, a Chihuahua and a Yorkshire terrier, so if they like him, that's a good sign. — Christina Milian
- He's like a terrier, Scholes, he won't let go - even the postman would be afraid of him. — Jimmy Magee
- Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane. — Smiley Blanton
- A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent. — Mahatma Gandhi
- Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs. — Jerome K. Jerome
- If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow. — George W. Bush
- I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. — Alfred Edward Housman
- I have several Scottish Terriers. I find them to be the most wonderful dogs. — Frederick Lenz
- I like Yorkshire terriers. They're good to wash your car with. They fit right in the bucket. — Billiam Coronel
- I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. — A. E. Housman
People Writing About Terrier
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Phyllis Diller |
192 | 3142 |
 Vietnamese Proverbs |
114 | 1 |
 Steven Wright |
543 | 9203 |
 Ovid |
714 | 3612 |
 William Shakespeare |
4052 | 36000 |
 Nikita Khrushchev |
81 | 4427 |
More Terrier Quotes
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. — Agnes Repplier
A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such. — John Holmes
(Scottish Terriers) have all the compactness of a small dog and all the valor of a big one. And they are so exceedingly sturdy that it is proverbial that the only thing fatal to them is being run over by an automobile - in which case the car itself knows it has been in a fight. — Dorothy Parker
Once you've got a bull terrier, you never want another dog. I've got six bull terriers, a rottweiler and a bulldog. — Julian Dicks
I like extremely effeminate dogs like terriers or schnauzers. I make an exception for giant schnauzers and big poodles. Basically, I like dogs which can be dyed day-glo colours. — Jonathan Meades
Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms. — Ouida
I have a new little stray dog that I've had for about a month now. His name is Mikey Mohawk - he's this little terrier with a natural Mohawk. My friend found him hit by a car on Pico Boulevard. — Krysten Ritter
It sometimes takes days, even weeks, before a dog's nerves tire. In the case of terriers it can run into months. — E. B. White
But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat. Process and Reality — Alfred North Whitehead
Fatty, a bearded collie-terrier mix, is the kindest, cuddliest dog. And Oliver, a white golden retriever, even looks like me! My dogs have taught me to be more loving, more nurturing, and happier. — Nicollette Sheridan
All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a cow a good fright, entangle a Yorkshire terrier for life, and is nasty stuff made by greedy men. — Billy Connolly
Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and policemen to chase anything that runs away. — Terry Pratchett
At home in Victoria, we have three dogs, Tosh and Lucy, they're half Blue Heelers, and then there's Torrin a little Maltese terrier. She gets more attention in the house than anyone else! Yes, I miss them a lot. — Chris Hemsworth
Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
People are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be the same breed. George Bush and an Australian Aborigine have fewer differences than a Lhasa apso and a toy fox terrier. A Japanese raised in Riyadh would be an Arab. A Zulu raised in New Rochelle would be an orthodontist. People are all the same, though their circumstances differ terribly. — P. J. O'Rourke
While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox. — Barry McGuigan
I am a Pit Bull mixed with a Great Dane, mixed with a Rottweiler, mixed with a Bull Terrier, mixed with everything. That's what kind of dog I am. — Brandon Rios
I have to say that it was a thrilling ride to be on 'Terriers.' It was this odd circumstance where it was really loved by the people it was loved by, but it didn't do well. In fairness to FX, they were just so generous in keeping it on the air the whole year. — Donal Logue
At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line. — Hugh Bonneville
We only have one dog now. Calamity Jane had to be put down. She was very old, and her medicine no longer controlled her seizures. Dilly is five now, I think. He's a neutered American Pit Bull Terrier, very gentle, about the color of buckskin. — Gene Wolfe
Many people have heard the remarkable example of devotion involving a Skye terrier dog who worked for a Scottish shepherd named Old Jock. In 1858, the day after Jock was buried (with almost nobody present to mourn him except his shaggy dog) in the churchyard at Greyfriars Abbey in Edinburgh, Bobby was found sleeping on his master's grave, where he continued to sleep every night for fourteen years. — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Mosca and Saracen shared, if not a friendship, at least the solidarity of the generally despised. Mosca assumed that Saracen had his reasons for his persecution of terriers and his possessive love of the malthouse roof. In turn, when Mosca had interrupted Saracen’s self-important nightly patrol and scooped him up, Saracen had assumed that she too had her reasons. — Frances Hardinge
I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out cardboard coffins beneath the oak tree in our backyard. Also where, if some future archaeologist goes digging, they'll find the remains of a plush toy: a gray terrier named Toto I buried after the accident. — Jennifer McMahon
The number one mistake is giving pets table scraps. I made the mistake thinking I was showing my dog love by giving her food and treats. You see a tiny 4 oz. piece of cheese, but for a Boston Terrier like mine, that's like one and a half hamburgers. That's unhealthy. — Alison Sweeney
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