My Favorite Quotes About Dogs
Quotes About Hound Dogs
“Home is where the hound is.” — unknown
“A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.” — George R. R. Martin
“Happiness is a hound dog in the sun.” — Marisha Pessl
“Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.” — Thomas More
“I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.” — Neil Young
“I think of basset hounds whenever I turn on my computer because I have photos of them. And if I'm lucky, and I see one on the street, I know it's going to be a good day. They really are like a four-leaf clover.” — Julie Klausner
"Buy for me from the King's own kennels, the finest elk hounds of the Royal strain, male and female. Bring them back without delay. For," he murmured, scarcely above his breath as he turned to his books, "I have done with men." — Virginia Woolf
“As soon as he saw Odysseus standing there, he dropped his ears and wagged his tail, but he could not get close up to his master. When Odysseus saw the dog on the other side of the yard, dashed a tear from his eyes without Eumaeus seeing it, and said:
“‘Eumaeus, what a noble hound that is over yonder on the manure heap: his build is splendid; is he as fine a fellow as he looks, or is he only one of those dogs that come begging about a table, and are kept merely for show?’” — Homer
Quotes About Golden Retrievers
“A golden retriever’s love is like sunshine; it warms the heart and brightens the soul.” — unknown
"The voice in my head is is fond of upper-case. It's like having a sub-cranial golden retriever." — Tabitha McGowan
“Golden retrievers: the epitome of pure joy and happiness.” — unknown
“Golden retrievers have a way of making even the simplest moments feel magical.” — unknown
“The face of a Golden Retriever feels like home.” — David Rosenfelt
“Once someone has had good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one’s life and one’s outlook is never quite the same.” — Betty White
“Golden Retrievers. Once they love, they love steadily, unchangingly, till their last breath.” — unknown
“The little ball went up, then down, then up in his palm. My inner golden retriever couldn’t look away.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout
"It is not mysterious to be home on a Saturday night, reading a novel in a pile of smelly golden retrievers." — E. Lockhart
Quotes About All Kinds of Dogs
“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.” — Robert Benchley
“If you don’t believe that dogs have souls, you haven’t looked into their eyes long enough.” — unknown
"Being a hero to someone, even if it is a dog, is a feeling like no other. Though it can be frustrating, it can be the most rewarding thing to give someone a second chance at a happy life." — Elizabeth Parker
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." — Groucho Marx
“Happiness is a warm puppy.” — Charles M. Schulz
"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
"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself." — Josh Billings
"You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us." — Robert Louis Stevenson
"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
"If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends." — Neil Gaiman
"Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky" — John Grogan
"After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation." — Robert R. McCammon
"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
"The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with that, kiss you. There are no ulterior motives with a dog, no mind games, no second-guessing, no complicated negotiations or bargains, and no guilt trips or grudges if a request is denied." — Caroline Knapp
"In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag." — W.H. Auden
"Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon. I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh. The fact that we still live with dogs, even when we don't have to herd or hunt our dinner, gives me hope for humans and canines alike." — Oprah Winfrey
"You can say any fool thing to a dog and the dog will just give you this look that says, 'My GOSH, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!" — Dave Barry
