Quotes for National Dog Week

Celebrating man’s best friend

If you’re a dog lover, National Dog Week is a time for you and your fur baby to celebrate. Since 1928, people who love dogs have been celebrating their favorite pets on September 20 to 27, and these quotes about dogs illustrate why.

1. “The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.” -Mark Twain

2. “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

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

4. “Dog’s lives are too short. Their only fault, really.” -Agnes Slight Turnbull

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

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

7. “Everything I know, I learned from dogs.” -Nora Roberts

8. “All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn’t a dog.” -Charles M. Schulz

9. “Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.” -Roger A. Caras

10. “Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.” -Sigmund Freud

11. “The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.” -Andy Rooney

12. “Even the tiniest poodle or chihuahua is still a wolf at heart.” -Dorothy Hinshaw

13. “Hounds follow those who feed them.” -Otto von Bismarck

14. “Name one development in the history of humankind that has increased happiness more than the domestication of dogs.” -Aaron Easterly

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

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

17. “Dogs never bite me. Just humans.” -Marilyn Monroe

18. “Be the person your dog thinks you are.” -C.J. Frick

19. “Having a dog will bless you with many of the happiest days of your life, and one of the worst.” -Unknown

20. “To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.” -Aldous Huxley

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

22. “Every dog must have his day.” -Jonathan Swift

23. “To err is human — to forgive, canine.” -Unknown

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

25. “If I could be half the person my dog is, I’d be twice the human I am.” -Charles Yu

26. “Did you know that there are over 300 words for love in canine?” -Gabriel Zevin

27. “Every dog has his day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weak-end.” -June Carter Cash

28. “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.” -Erica Jong

29. “You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.” -W. Bruce Cameron

30. “The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.” -Konrad Lorenz

31. “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.” -Christopher Hitchens

32. “No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as a dog does.” -Christopher Morley

33. “Opening up your life to a dog who needs a home is one of the most fulfilling things you can do.” -Emma Kenney

34. “Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.” -Agatha Christie

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

36. “What do dogs do on their day off? Can’t lie around — that’s their job.” -George Carlin

37. “If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.” -Karel Capek

38. “Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.” -Milan Kundera

39. “Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?” -Saint Basil

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

41. “Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.” -Emily Dickinson

42. “Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.” -Dean Koontz

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

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

45. “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” -Winston S. Churchill

46. “Before you get a dog, you can’t quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can’t imagine living any other way.” -Caroline Knapp

47. “My little dog — a heartbeat at my feet.” -Edith Wharton

48. “Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?” -Jonathan Safran Foer

49. “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

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

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