Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

Friedrich Nietzsche

But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.

George Bernard Shaw

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

George Bernard Shaw

When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

George Bernard Shaw

The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.

George Bernard Shaw

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

George Bernard Shaw

If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.

George Bernard Shaw

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.

Gelett Burgess

As the dog becomes thoroughbred in the laws of clan and caste; obedient, fraternal and loyal; so is the man who accepts the gentleman's code.

Gale Gordon

My wife and I love to read. Were going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.

Franz Kafka

Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.

Franz Kafka

Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.

Franz Kafka

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves!

Franz Kafka

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

Erica Jong

Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.

Erica Jong

A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.

Erica Jong

I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.

Enya

I don't have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don't do my own shopping; it's a security thing.

Emily VanCamp

My idea of a perfect pet is a really, really big dog! Huge!

Jason Thomas

Only a dog would lick a finger pointed in anger.

Jason Reitman

As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like 'The Godfather' or 'Dog Day Afternoon' or 'The Graduate.' You watch one of those, and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies, it makes you think, If that counts, I certainly could write.

By the second day you know which dog is your favorite. They say the dog picks you and I really think that's true.

William Butler Yeats

But where's the wild dog that has praised his fleas?

Harriet Tubman

If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.

Guy Pearce

I've learned from the past that it's important to recharge and get time in-between jobs, and if I can't get time in-between jobs then when I know I've got some time coming up at the end of a job, really try and take advantage of that. And do very mundane things at home and putter in the garden and spend time with family and make music and, you know, play with the dogs. Just get back to being me.

Greg Fitzsimmons

Rescuing dogs is looked upon as a noble, trendy pursuit. But wouldn't rescuing a man from a homeless shelter be, in fact, more humane?

Greg Giraldo

When I heard you could get a disease from playing with your prairie dog, I thought, 'Wow, what a euphemism.' I thought playing with my prairie dog was the best way to avoid diseases.

Greg Giraldo

People always want to compare their dogs to having kids. That's insulting. First of all, nobody has a dog because they were too drunk to pull out.

Greg Gutfeld

Essentially, the Tea Party are the Hell's Angels, but with sun visors instead of switch blades. They push macaroni instead of meth. Mess with the Tea Party and they'll put your dog in an American flag sweater on a hot day.

Greg Gutfeld

When one becomes a liberal, he or she pretends to advocate tolerance, equality and peace, but hilariously, they’re doing so for purely selfish reasons. It’s the human equivalent of a puppy dog’s face: an evolutionary tool designed to enhance survival, reproductive value and status. In short, liberalism is based on one central desire: to look cool in front of others in order to get love. Preaching tolerance makes you look cooler, than saying something like, 'please lower my taxes.'

Glenn Greenwald

You can't have a pristine house with ten dogs, and I'd rather have the ten dogs.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I try as best I can to really put all I can into what I'm doing. A lot of days I fail and there's too much to do. I do think it's really important to have time to yourself, whether that's reading something interesting when the kids are in bed or even having a dog.

Military canines make contributions every day while they serve in our military. They are hard working and do a great job of saving the lives of their handlers and the troops who walk in their footsteps.