Quotes about dog
dog
I did not know that [ the Chancellor Angela Merkel is a bit frightened of dogs]. I wanted to make her happy. When I learned that she does not like dogs, I apologized, of course. Vladimir Putin
dog horse saddles
My saddle horses are my friends. My dogs are my friends. Wilford Brimley
dog sleep pet
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion. Washington Irving
dog monkeys candide
Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are. Voltaire
dog may littles
That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally. William Feather
dog pavlov
I'll be Pavlov, you be the dog. William Stafford
dog cat boys
Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could talk of their oppressors with a studied violence, add our strength to theirs, even organize the oppressed and like good politicians sell our charity for power. William Butler Yeats
dog heart eye
What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible.
dog horse eye
One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot see, and men who live primitive lives where instinct does the work of reason are fully conscious,of many things we cannot perceive at all. As life becomes more orderly, more deliberate, the supernatural world sinks farther away.
dog fleas
But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
dog moon world
Because the priest must have like every dog his day Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon, We and our dolls being but the world were best away.
dog men share
He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood. Walter Scott
dog toil deceit
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
dog sorry loss
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
dog short-life loss
I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?
dog children
The more I see of dogs, the more I like children. Winifred Holtby
dog men agriculture
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. Winston Churchill
dog meals poodles
The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.
dog names silent
His name is Rufus II-but the II is silent.
dog people bike
Our dog chases people on a bike. We've had to take it off him.
dog clever cat
All dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal
dog cat thinking
Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function. William S. Burroughs
dog hunting imagination
If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. William Maxwell
dog want please
A dog is a liberal... He wants to please everybody. William Kunstler
dog cat want
A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him.
dog retirement heart
Retirement is a very subjective thing. There are guys I know who retire and they're very happy and they never miss work at all. I can't see myself retiring and fondling a dog every day. I like to get up and work and go out. I have too much energy or too much nervous anxiety or something. So I don't see myself retiring. Maybe I will suddenly get a stroke or a heart attack and I will be forced to retire, but if my health holds out I don't expect to retire. Woody Allen
dog phones return
Show business is dog eat dog. It's worse than dog eat dog. It's dog doesn't return dog's phone calls.
dog horse ocean
I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love. William Shatner
dog horse kids
My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.
dog horse cat
I realized that all animals, not just dogs and cats and horses, were sentient beings; therefore, I just couldn't say I love animals and then eat them. William McNamara
dog strong horse
I was an only child. Growing up, we moved a lot, so I didn't have any close friends. So the animals I was around as a child - dogs, cats, and horses, and stuffed animals - became my family and friends. The only strong bonds I made as a child were with animals.
dog littles footnotes
Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text William James
dog may affection
Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.