50 MOST BELOVED QUOTES ABOUT DOGS

Today, I want to share with you some of my absolute favorite sayings about dogs. Enjoy!

“Happiness is a warm puppy.”  – Charles Schulz

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.” – Josh Billings

“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. ” – Mark Twain

“Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.”  – Agnes Turnbull

“You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.” – Harry Truman

“Never stand between a dog and the fire hydrant.”—John Peer

“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” – Roger Caras

“A dog is the only thing that can mend a crack in your broken heart” – Judy Desmond

“I guess you don’t really own a dog, you rent them, and you have to be thankful if you had a long lease.” – Joe Garagiola

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” – Groucho Marx

“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” – Will Rogers

“We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.” – Immanuel Kant

“The average dog is nicer than the average person.”—Andy Rooney

“I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.”  – Doris Day

“Dogs leave pawprints on our hearts” – Author Unknown

“Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes.” – Gene Hill

“Everyone thinks they have the best dog. And none of them are wrong.” – W.R. Purche

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. It is the principal difference between a dog and a man.” – Mark Twain

“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.”  – Dean Koontz

“My fashion philosophy is, if you’re not covered in dog hair, your life is empty.”—Elayne Boosler

“If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.”  – Albert Einstein

“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.”— Christopher Morley

“You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you’re in faster than you can think of.” – Jill Abramson

“You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.” – Robert Louis

“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.” – Ben Williams

“A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.”—Orlando Aloysius Battista

“Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love, they depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs your heart is very big.”  – Erica Jong

“If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.” – James Thurber

“Ever consider what our dogs must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul, chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth!” – Anne Tyler

“Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.”- Orhan Pamuk

“Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.”—Franklin P. Jones

“Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.”  -Kinky Friedman

“Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it watching for us to come home each day.” – John Grogan

“I think dogs are the most amazing creatures. They give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.”  – Gilda Radner

“What do dogs do on their day off? Can’t lie around – that’s their job!”  – George Carlin

“Properly trained, a man can be dog’s best friend.”—Corey Ford

“The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.” – M.K. Clinton

“Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.”  – Ann Landers

“I once decided not to date a guy because he wasn’t excited to meet my dog. I mean, this was like not wanting to meet my mother.” – Bonnie Schacter

“Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them and filling an emptiness we didn’t ever know we had.” – Thom Jones

“The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.”  – Stanley Coren

“I don’t think twice about picking up my dog’s poop, but if another dog’s poop is next to it, I think, ‘Eww, dog poop!”— Jonah Goldberg

“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”  – Charles de Gaulle

“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”  – Alexander Pope

“The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.” – Samuel Butler

“If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them.” — Phil Pastoret

“Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like, never washed a dog.” — Franklin P. Jones

“You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, ‘Wow, you’re right! I never would’ve thought of that!’ ” — Dave Barry

“You can trust your dog to guard your house but never trust your dog to guard your sandwich.” – Author Unknown

“Dogs are better than humans because they know but do not tell.” – Emily Dickinson

That’s it – these are truly my favorites. Did I leave out any that you love? If so, please share in the comments below.