Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with the ancients, or eventhe Elizabethan men. But what is that to the purpose? A living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

Henry David Thoreau

I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men themselves have some wild oats still left to sow before they become submissive members of society. Undoubtedly, all men are not equally fit subjects for civilization; and because the majority, like dogs and sheep, are tame by inherited disposition, this is no reason why the others should have their natures broken that they may be reduced to the same level.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He certainly deserved the name better than those who had assumed it.

Halle Berry

I wish all men were like dogs.

Jim Croce

He's bad, bad Leroy Brown, baddest dude in the whole damn town, badder than old King Kong, and meaner than a junk yard dog.

Gilda Radner

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

Jim Butcher

Okay," Kincaid said. "Anyone have any questions?" "Why do they sell hot dogs in packages of ten but hot dog buns in packages of eight?

He ran in the house. I went over there. (What were the dogs doing?) They were on a chain. One was in the house, the male was.

Ivan Turgenev

I must say, though, that a man who has staked his whole life on the card of a woman's love and who, when that card is trumped, falls to pieces and lets himself go to the dogs -- a fellow like that is not a man, not a male. You say he's unhappy -- you know best. But all the nonsense hasn't been taken out of him yet. I'm sure he really believes he's a smart fellow just because he reads that rag Galignani and saves a muzhik from a flogging once a month.

Hugh Hefner

When I was young I had a security blanket and a pet dog. The dog got sick and died and the blanket had to be burned, so I guess I was trying to recreate the image of security in the bunny. It was a Citizen Kane/Rosebud thing.

Immanuel Kant

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

H. L. Mencken

It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself up out of the dark abyss of pish and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.

H. P. Lovecraft

The dog is a peasant and the cat is a gentleman.

Gene Hill

No man can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned by a dog.

Gene Hill

We never really own a dog as much as she owns us.

Gene Hill

I like them all-pointers, setters, retrievers, spaniels-what have you. I've had good ones and bad of several kinds. Most of the bad ones were my fault and most of the good ones would have been good under any circumstances.

Gene Hill

I can't imagine living in a house without a couple of dogs. If I ever got out of bed at night and didn't have to step over a Labrador or two or three, or move one off the covers so I could turn over, my nights would be more restless and the demons that wait in the dark for me would be less easily fended.

Gene Hill

I can't think of anything that brings me closer to tears than when my old dog - completely exhausted after a hard day in the field - limps away from her nice spot in front of the fire and comes over to where I'm sitting and puts her head in my lap, a paw over my knee, and closes her eyes, and goes back to sleep. I don't know what I've done to deserve that kind of friend.

Gene Hill

His head on my knee can heal my human hurts. His presence by my side is protection against my fears of dark and unknown things. He has promised to wait for me... whenever... wherever-in case I need him. And I expect I will-as I always have. He is just my dog.

Gary L. Francione

Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.

Gary Johnson

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".

Jenna Morasca

Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.

Jennifer Armintrout

One minute she acts like she wants to be with me and I'm the one rejecting her. The next, she's got this barbed wire fence and barking dogs around her, like I can't even ask her the simplest questions." "And here I was assuming you didn't care about her." Stabbing his fingers through his hair, he groaned, "I don't!" "And you make it perfectly clear." Men. Idiots.

If I had seen a dog in that condition, I would have impounded it.

I could put five dogs together and not match him. Wax was the total package.

I'd say of the upper echelon, about 50 percent are hunting dogs, ... But a lot of people just have French poodles and their family pet.

I doubt he's that much. I think he's smaller. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the heart, and that's what he's got.

I don't want to see this sport die. But I want to see it run in a more professional manner. We have an opportunity here. We want to put a whole new face on dog racing.

He's got a big heart. No matter how much they knock him around he doesn't stop coming. A speed dog who can also come from off the pace is very dangerous.

Coco Austin

I'd love to have a little Coco if I could have my way. I always dress up my dogs and they probably hate me for it, so it would be nice to dress up a human being.

I don't like it one bit. We're used to being top dogs. I guess that's what it's come to now. They see us down. When they see a program like this down, they want to kick you while you're down, because they might not get another chance.

Hun Sen

I not only weaken the opposition, I’m going to make them dead ... and if anyone is strong enough to try to hold a demonstration, I will beat all those dogs and put them in a cage.