165 Quotes About Dogs And The People Who Love Them

Inherent kindness and endless loyalty are two of the characteristics that we tend to give to dogs, which make them so lovable.

Needless to say dogs are often a great company for lonely moments and really generous when it comes to – the sometimes disputed – unconditional love – not to mention unbearably cute to look at! All these animal virtues must have led a multitude of people to utter quotes of love towards dogs or to make human analogies to point out the beneficial effects they might have on our everyday lives. Whether you know somebody who really loves dogs or if you are undeniably one of them, here is a collection of dog quotes that can establish an even deeper human-canine relationship. Sharing them will surely make the gratitude people feel for them even greater.

Table of Contents

1. Best Dog Quotes
2. Dog Love Quotes
3. Funny Dog Quotes
4. Cute Dog Quotes
5. Dog Best Friend Quotes
6. Cats and Dogs Quotes
7. Dog Loyalty Quotes

Best Dog Quotes

• Dogs are our link to paradise. Milan Kundera
• Live. Laugh. Bark. Unknown
• Keep calm and pet a dog. Unknown
• Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really. Agnes Turnbull
• Everything I know I learned from dogs. Nora Roberts
• Dog is God spelled backward. Duane Chapman
• Every dog is a lion at home. Henry George Bohn
• Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen. Orhan Pamuk

• If I could be half the person my dog is, I’d be twice the human I am. Charles Yu
• If you live with dogs, you’ll never run out of things to write about. Sharon Delarose
• Dogs never bite me. Just humans. Marilyn Monroe
• Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. Roger Caras
• I never met a man half so true as a dog. Mary Ann Shaffer
• Dogs are the magicians of the universe. Clarissa Pinkola Estés
• Dogs are our true friends, our angels, our teachers, our healers. Leila Grandemange
• We don’t need geography, dogs are our world. Dog Lover
• It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog. Mark Twain
• Dogs have something of us in them. Something of God. Manlio Argueta
• The dog is the god of frolic. Henry Ward Beecher
• A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. Robert Benchley
• Dogs are how people would be if the important stuff is all that mattered to us. Ashly Lorenzana
• My fashion philosophy is, if you’re not covered in dog hair, your life is empty. Elayne Boosler
• Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks. Roger A. Caras
• The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment. Robert Falcon Scott
• If you want the best seat in the house, move the dog. Chambray Blue
• There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. Ben Williams
• Everybody should have a shelter dog. It’s good for the soul. Paul Shaffer
• Dogs leave the stupid concept of personal space to humans and do what they like. Nitya Prakash
• I’m suspicious of people who don’t like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn’t like a person. Bill Murray
• To err is human — to forgive, canine. Unknown
• Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong. Unknown
• I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it. Cesar Millan
• Life is too short to just have one dog. Unknown
• Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. Ann Landers
• The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s. Mark Twain
• The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. Charles De Gaulle
• Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach. Moby
• Discipline isn’t about showing a dog who’s boss; it’s about taking responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world. Cesar Millan
• Even the tiniest Poodle or Chihuahua is still a wolf at heart. Dorothy Hinshaw
• 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
• Every dog has, as I do, the urge to question. And I, like all dogs, have the compulsion to be silent. Franz Kafka
• I’ll believe it if I see it” for dogs translates to “I’ll believe it if I smell it.” So don’t bother yelling at them; it’s the energy and scent they pay attention to, not your words. Cesar Millan with Melissa Jo Peltier
• 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
• 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 don’t own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life. Roger Caras
• 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
• 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
• No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you feel rich. Louis Sabin
• No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does. Christopher Morley
• Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dog. Ernest Thompson Seton
• Old dogs, like old shoes, are comfortable. They might be a bit out of shape and a little worn around the edges, but they fit well. Bonnie Wilcox
• We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment to animals. Immanuel Kant

Dog Love Quotes

• Love is a four-legged word. Unknown
• My little dog – a heartbeat at my feet. Edith Wharton
• All you need is love and a dog. Unknown
• Did you know that there are over 300 words for love in canine? Gabriel Zevin
• I wonder if dogs have the word ‘hate’ in their barcabulary… Nitya Prakash
• A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. Josh Billings
• The best lover has fur and four legs and is the most trustworthy heart. Debasish Mridha
• Dogs, I think, might be more important than principles. They provide love and loyalty when you need them the most. Kevin Hearne
• There is nothing truer in this world than the love of a good dog. Mira Grant
• We may have pets, but when it comes to unconditional love, they are the masters. Donald L. Hicks
• Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. Kinky Friedman
• Remember those Nights When No One Was There For You But Your Dog. Sami Abouzid
• The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog. M.K. Clinton
• A dog’s love is only second to that of a mother’s. Radhika Mundra
• 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
• The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be. Konrad Lorenz

• The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them. Stanley Coren
• It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them. John Grogan
• It’s hard not to immediately fall in love with a dog who has a good sense of humor. Kate DiCamillo
• A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won’t be too bad. Robert Wagner
• Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment. Caroline Knapp
• I think dogs are the most amazing creatures. The give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive. Gilda Radner
• The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants. Johnny Depp
• The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it. Michel Houellebecq
• Love – that which biologists, nervous about being misunderstood, call ‘attachment ‘- fuels the bond between dog and master or mistress. John Bradshaw
• My resolution this year is to get a dog and practice loving something back. Joey Comeau

Funny Dog Quotes

• Dogs are angels full of poop. Oliver Gaspirtz
• Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog. Franklin P. Jones
• You’re here. I’m here. I love you. I’m gonna pee all over the floor about it. Jen Sincero
• Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job. Franklin P. Jones
• The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. Andy Rooney
• My dog thinks I’m a catch. Unknown
• If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail. Fran Lebowitz
• 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
• My dog is half pit-bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip. Craig Shoemaker
• I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. Rita Rudner
• He’s poodlishly ridiculous. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage. Terry Pratchett
• Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers. Jodi Picoult
• What do dogs do on their day off? Can’t lie around – that’s their job. George Carlin
• A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well – almost. Charlotte Gray
• The dog has got more fun out of man than man has got out of the dog, for man is the more laughable of the two animals. James Thurber
• The simplest strategy for bouts of noxious flatus is to not care. Or perhaps to take advantage of a gastroenterologist I know: get a dog. (To blame.) Mary Roach
• When you adopt a dog, you have a lot of very good days and one very bad day. W. Bruce Cameron
• To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. Aldous Huxley
• We were wolves once / Wild and wary / Then we noticed you had sofas. Francesco Marciuliano
• A well-trained dog will make no attempt to share your lunch. He will just make you feel so guilty that you cannot enjoy it. Helen Thomson
• I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies. Merrill Markoe
• Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear. Dave Barry
• The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. Warren Bennis
• Even if I take him out for three hours every day, and go and chat to him for another hour, that leaves twenty hours for him all alone with nothing to do. Oh, why can’t dogs read? Nancy Mitford
• 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
• 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

Cute Dog Quotes

• The face of a golden retriever feels like home. David Rosenfelt
• Happiness is a warm puppy. Charles Schulz
• Joyful, joyful, joyful,as only dogs know how to be happywith only the autonomyof their shameless spirit. Pablo Neruda
• Dogs leave pawprints on our hearts. Unknown

• Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness? Jonathan Safran Foer
• You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be. Captain Beefheart
• You can’t be sad when Daisy is around, she won’t let you. Maryam Faresh
• In my lap I had my dear little pug, the smell of whose ears will always be sweeter to me than all the perfumes of Araby and the scent of heliotrope combined. Kathryn Davis
• A dog is the only thing that can mend a crack in your broken heart. Judy Desmond
• 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
• Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years. Robin Hobb
• My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day with my blankie, my cat, and my dog. Anne Lamott
• Being this cute must be so freaking ruff. Unknown
• When an 85-pound mammal licks your tears away, and then tries to sit on your lap, it’s hard to feel sad. Kristan Higgins
• 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
• Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, and filling an emptiness we didn’t ever know we had. Thom Jones
• Puppies are nature’s remedy for feeling unloved, plus numerous other ailments of life. Richard Allen Palm

Dog Best Friend Quotes

• You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog. Harry S Truman
• A dog may be man’s best friend, but a child’s best friend is a puppy. Unknown
• A dog owner might be the master of his dog, but the dog is also a master, a master of friendship! Mehmet Murat ildan
• Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. Alexander Pope
• Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
• No animal I know of can consistently be more of a friend and companion than a dog. Stanley Leinwall
• Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read. Groucho Marx
• The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend. Lord Byron

• There is no faith which has never yet been broken except that of a truly faithful dog. Konrad Lorenz
• Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog;but you’re never friendless ever, if you have a dog. Douglas Malloch
• The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. George Graham
• 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
• Day after day, the whole day through—Wherever my road inclined—Four-Feet said, “I am coming with you!”And trotted along behind. Rudyard Kipling
• 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
• There’s just something about dogs that makes you feel good. You come home, they’re thrilled to see you. They’re good for the ego. Janet Schnellman
• It’s tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won’t drink from my glass. Rodney Dangerfield
• When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you. Eckhart Tolle

Cats and Dogs Quotes

• Dogs own space and cats own time. Nicola Griffith
• My cats inspire me daily. They inspire me to get a dog! Greg Curtis
• Dogs have their day but cats have 365. Lilian Jackson Braun
• Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, “Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs”. C.S. Lewis
• Dogs are like kids. Cats are like roommates. Oliver Gaspirtz

• Dogs have hair. Cats, fur.Dogs whine, yip, howl, bark. Cats purrr.I say: No contest. Lee Wardlaw
• “Meow” means “woof” in cat. George Carlin
• If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. Mark Twain
• My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life. Michael Sheen
• If you’ve got a cozy mystery, and a dog is introduced, readers’ first question is, ‘Does the dog die?’ They never ask about a cat. They know that the first rule of cozies is: The Cat Never Dies. K.B. Inglee
• If dogs start acting like cats, many dogs lose their owners because what is expected of a dog is always obedience to its owner! Mehmet Murat ildan
• … Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us… Winston Churchill
• I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human. L.M. Montgomery

Dog Loyalty Quotes

• A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. Josh Billings
• Peer into your loving dog’s eyes and you will have seen true trust and loyalty. Jeff Tikari
• A hound will die for you but never lie to you. George R.R. Martin
• Being able to feel love, loyalty, gratitude and happiness means you have a soul? Then all my pets are bound for heaven. Jury Nel
• “Never mind”, said Hachiko each day. “Here I wait, for my friend who’s late. I will stay, just to walk beside you for one more day”. Jess C. Scott
• The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they’re your friends, you can do no wrong. Dick Van Patten
• Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress. Louis Sabin
• If you want loyalty, get a dog. If you want loyalty and attention, get a smart dog. Grant Fairley
• Try to be as loyal as dog. In humans you will never find such loyalty. Pratyush Athghara
• Sometimes I think I like dogs more than I like humans. The only time a dog has ever betrayed me… was by dying. José N. Harris
• A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. Robert Benchley
• If the loyalty is mentioned, the example of dogs is given. Fozia Malik

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