Famous Quotes & Sayings

All dogs are trainable if you have the time and put in the effort. It's sometimes the people you can't train. Ninety-eight percent of the things that dogs do wrong, it's the person, not the dog, who is at fault.

Eric Idle

My wife, Tania, is very big on dogs, so I'm always paying out to animal charities.

Eric Hoffer

Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he is supposed to be.

Emo Philips

Cell phones are like a dog's nipples... you don't have to shout into them!

Emo Philips

I think fur looks better on an animal than on a human being. So I dress my dog in a mink teddy.

Emmylou Harris

As anyone who goes into dog-rescue knows, it is not a for-profit business, but the rewards are priceless for me.

Emmylou Harris

I get a lot of sleep on the bus. I bring two dogs with me, who keep me grounded. I guess that's just in my soul. It's good to know that you're good at something.

Emmylou Harris

When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

Emmy Rossum

I have a dog as well, and I'm not a vegan or anything. But I needlepoint and I have a cat, so it's not boding well.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.

Oksana Baiul

I will try to make a doll of Oksana with a little dog.

The dog is man's best friend. He has a tail on one end. Up in front he has teeth. And four legs underneath.

Dogs display reluctance and wrath If you try to give them a bath. They bury bones in hideaways And half the time they trot sideaways.

To Tom Carlson or his dog-depending on whose taste it best suits.

Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky eye. She seems to pant, Time up, time up! My little dog must die, And lie in dust with Hector's pup; I So, presently, must I.

A dog's best friend is his illiteracy.

The truth I do not stretch or shove When I state the dog is full of love. I've also proved, by actual test, A wet dog is the lovingest.

Norman Wisdom

You know I've got a chum, a smashing mate, he's got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It's true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag.

Norman Rockwell

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.

Norman Mailer

I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing.

Norman Ralph Augustine

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

Norman Reedus

The dogs with the loudest bark are the ones that are most afraid.

Oscar de la Renta

If you have the right to call me a hot dog why do I not have the right to call you a stale 3-day old hamburger?

Orlando Aloysius Battista

A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.

Oriana Fallaci

America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

Orhan Pamuk

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.

Oliver Sacks

If a man with a dog sits quietly enjoying music and smiling, his dog might sit down beside him and smile, too. But who knows whether the dog is having a comparable experience or whether the dog is simply happy that his master is happy.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.

Olesya Rulin

Ive fostered five dogs for the Best Friends Program, which is an amazing no-kill sanctuary for animals, as well as a greyhound named Natasha from the greyhound rescue. All of my fosters have taught me great lessons like patience, nurture, and responsibility. My last foster dog was a Cocker Spaniel, and I couldnt let him go. I adopted him!

Oleg Cassini

I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

O. Henry

Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

Norton Juster

I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. "Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.