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Quotes About Dogs

It seems like all the good looking people have smaller dogs these days. Especially for the women, because they always come in with their little Chihuahuas and the guys come in with their Golden Retrievers.
~ Elizabeth Perkins
Pigs are smarter than dogs, and both are smarter than Congress.
~ Elayne Boosler
The sense of smell in all dogs is their primary doorway to the world around them.
~ Robert Crais
Since dogs could hear and smell better than men, we could concentrate on sight. Since courage is commonplace in dogs, men's adrenal glands could shrink. Dogs, by making us more efficient predators, gave us time to think. In short, dogs civilized us.
~ Donald McCaig
I rented a place that I could have dogs - not in my house. I rented a big place. And I was able to have the SPCA every end of the week bring many, many dogs to me. They all were in nice places, clean, everything was fine. I took good care of them. And so many people called.
~ Doris Day
The olfactory sensors of dogs, he said, had evolved over millions of years to be able to detect a handful of molecules, and that kind of sensitivity is extremely difficult to match, even with our most finely tuned sensors. It's likely that we will continue to rely on dogs at airports for the foreseeable future.
~ Michio Kaku
Cuando Karenin vio por primera vez a Mefisto, se excitó y estuvo largo rato dando vueltas a su alrededor y olfateándolo. Pero pronto se hizo amigo de él y prefería su compañía a la de los otros perros del pueblo, a los que despreciaba porque estaban atados a sus casetas y ladraban estúpidamente, sin descanso y sin motivo. Karenin comprendió de manera adecuada el valor de lo exclusivo y podría afirmar que estaba orgulloso de su amistad con el cerdo
~ Milan Kundera
I've always loved dogs. I grew up with them and I love working with them. They're really fun.
~ Zac Efron
Assertive behaviors are often associated with dominant dogs but are, in fact, often used by dogs who are extremely insecure or under-socialized.
~ Brenda Aloff
Dogs in prey mode will silently and quickly approach their target. One fierce, very hard, full-mouth bite accompanied by shaking the selected target is a common indicator of predatory behaviour. The
~ Brenda Aloff
I thought this was supposed to be a class neighborhood, what they call upscale. Hell, I live in a trailer park, and I wouldn't let my dogs take a leak on somebody's personal vee-hicle.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Death's face became a little stiffer, if that were possible. The blue glow in his eye sockets flickered red for an instant. I SEE, he said. The tone suggested that death was too good for cat-haters. YOU LIKE GREAT BIG DOGS, I IMAGINE.
~ Terry Pratchett
Adult and senior dogs have just as much love to give as younger ones and I encourage everyone to give an older dog a chance.
~ Lauren Ash
DMX was just one of the figures that I thought no one could ever be better than. I used to look up to him so much. The bikes, the dogs, that's where I come from.
~ ASAP Ferg
So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
~ Abraham Verghese
The king appeared... with his dogs and sycophants behind him.
~ Kathleen Winsor
I have developed a rash on my body where the rough cloth rubs on my skin. I wanted to take a bath, thinking that the dirt on my skin made the rash worse, but the bathing tub has been turned upside down and is being used as an extra table in the kitchen and i cannot have it until spring, so I just spread goose grease on my rash. The dogs are following me everywhere.
~ Karen Cushman
This strain of virulent misery, this falling out of love, caused different symptoms, unique disruptions, in dogs and humans.
~ Karen Russell
Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys!
~ Garth Stein
People, like dogs, love repetition. Chasing a ball, lapping a course in a race car, sliding down a slide. Because as much as each incident is similar, so it is different.
~ Garth Stein
The snow turned powdery and deep. Each wading step became a struggle out on the river, so vast and utterly indifferent to the progress of a lone woman and her string of dogs.
~ Brian Patrick O'Donoghue
No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul.
~ Bruce McCall
Sing, goddess, of Achilles' ruinous anger Which brought ten thousand pains to the Achaeans, And cast the souls of many stalwart heroes To Hades, and their bodies to the dogs And birds of prey.
~ Homer
Untimely sent; they on the battle plain Unburied lay, a prey to rav'ning dogs, And carrion birds; but so had Jove decreed
~ Homer