Whether you’re a president, a writer, an actor, a comedian, or just a regular ol’ DogTime reader, chances are a dog has left a lasting impression on your life. Maybe that’s why there are so many famous quotes about dogs.
Dogs are commonly referred to as “man’s best friend” and have inspired words from some of the most celebrated and revered individuals of all time. However, even us common folk love to talk about our dogs every chance we get. Although our quotes about dogs may not make it into the history books, that won’t stop us from shouting our praises from the rooftops.
But you’re not here to read quotes from just anybody. You’re here to find out what history’s most well-known people have to say about dogs. Here are 50 quotes from famous people who had choice and lasting words about our beloved, four-legged family members.
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“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 Berry (author)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.”
- Robert Benchley (humorist and actor)(Picture Credit: Getty Images)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.” - Rita Rudner (comedienne)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.” - Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw; humorist and lecturer)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“Hounds follow those who feed them.” - Otto Von Bismark (1st Chancellor of Germany)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“Every dog has his day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weak-end.” - June Carter Cash (singer)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“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 (author)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.” - M.K. Clinton (author)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.” - Charles De Gaulle (former president of the French Republic)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.” - Johnny Depp (actor)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.” - Emily Dickinson (actor)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower (34th President of the United States)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?” - Jonathan Safran Foer (author)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.” - Benjamin Franklin (Founding Father of the United States)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“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 (psychoanalyst)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
- Robert A. Heinlein (author)(Picture Credit: Getty Images)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it’s hard to feel sad.” - Kristan Higgins (author)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.” - Aldous Huxley (author)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog — waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.” - Lee Iacocca (Former President and CEO of Chrystler)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.” - Franklin P. Jones (humorist and PR Executive)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.” - Barbara Kingsolver (author)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“When the Man waked up he said, ‘What is Wild Dog doing here?’ And the Woman said, ‘His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.'” - Rudyard Kipling (author The Jungle Book)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.” - Dean Koontz (author)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” - Ann Landers (famous advice columnist)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” - Abraham Lincoln (16th US President)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.” - Jack London (author The Call Of The Wild)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” - Groucho Marx (comedian)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“Dogs don’t rationalize. They don’t hold anything against a person. They don’t see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.” - Cesar Millan (dog trainer)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.” - Marilyn Monroe (actress)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.” - Christopher Morley (author: Kitty Foyle)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“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 (author)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive.” - Gilda Radner (comedienne)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” - Will Rogers (actor)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.” - Andy Rooney (contributor, 60 minutes)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
Cavashon puppy lying on a couch with its head between its paws. - Charles M. Shultz (cartoonist, peanuts)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“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.” - George Bernard Shaw (playwright)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.” - John Steinbeck (author, Grapes of Wrath)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.” - Robert Lewis Stevenson (author)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.” - Quentin Tarantino (director)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.” - Elizabeth Taylor (actress)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“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 (author)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“A hungry dog hunts best.” - Lee Travino (golfer)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.” - Harry S. Truman (33rd US President)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.” - Mark Twain (author)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“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 (author)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won’t be too bad.” - Rober Wagner (actor)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. That’s almost $21.00 in dog money.” - Joe Weinstein (comic)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“Let sleeping dogs lie.” - Robert Walpole (first Prime Minister of Great Britain)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.” - Woodrow Wilson (US President)
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50 Famous Quotes About Dogs
“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” - Roger Caras (photographer and writer)
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