Meow” means “woof” in cat.
Dogs are how people would be if the important stuff is all that mattered to us.
The other candidates — they went in, they didn’t know the air conditioning didn’t work. They sweated like dogs…How are they gonna beat ISIS? I don’t think it’s gonna happen.
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Happiness is a warm puppy.
It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.
If you live with dogs, you'll never run out of things to write about.
I will keep no further journal of that same hesternal torch‐light ; and, to prevent me from returning, like a dog, to the vomit of memory, I tear out the remaining leaves of this volume...
I'm a dog lover and sex addict. Those two things are unrelated.
The next time you wish you could find the right words to say to someone who is hurting, just remember that dogs are a man's best friend without ever speaking a word to them. Simply be present and have sympathy.
Everything is inspiration. If you look at the world as the incredible place it is, then each moment is a feast.
Sometimes you don't need words to feel better; you just need the nearness of your dog.
There is always hope for man or dog in life if only they be cute
What do dogs do on their day off?; Can't lie around – that's their job!
Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.
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.
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.
The more boys I meet the more I love my dog.
Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.
There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.
People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way.
In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us.
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core.
Finally, Charlie gave up the hunt and placed (the puppy) back on the floor, dispatching fleas was not his idea of a romantic evening, unless you happened to be a twisted exterminator, he thought.
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.
When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.
I've changed my ways a little, I cannot now
Run with you in the evenings along the shore,
Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment,
You see me there.
I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.
A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.
Neighbours complaining about someone’s dog making an awful racket. You could hardly blame the poor beast, its owner had died in her bed at least a fortnight before and there hadn’t been much left of the old girl worth eating.
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.
Dogs have their day but cats have 365.
Another thing I take issue with are people who take their dogs on "play dates," or even worse, people who choose to dress their dogs up in outfits better suited for homosexuals participating in a gay pride parade. Dog costumes are right up there with something else I find particularly offensive: sweater vests.
I say every dog looks like no other
but that isn't true. Not entirely.
Difference is slippery.
You know what I should do?" Hoshino asked excited. "Of course," the cat said. "What'd I tell you? Cats know everything. Not like dogs.
I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.
Spiritual fulfillment doesn't have to mean belief in a religion or disbelief in science. ... Whether one believes in an unseen, all-knowing force, or the wonder of science and the universe, or simply the beauty of the human spirit, nearly every one of feels an inner longing to feel part of something bigger than ourselves.
Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible.
You can't be sad when Daisy is around, she won't let you.
It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.
Sometimes I worry about how attached I am to this dog. About the fact that the primary relationship of my life is with a canine. That at the end of a terrible day I look forward to nothing more than coming home and lying on the bed, under the covers, with a giant Great Dane.
Animals are precious gifts offering unconditional love.
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.)
Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw - I don't say she will but she can.
I've long suspected dogs of being much smarter than people; I was even certain they could speak, but there was only some kind of stubbornness in them. They're extraordinary politicians: they notice every human step.
Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.
My cats inspire me daily. They inspire me to get a dog!
In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag.
The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.
Animals store their fears and at times OUR fears in the body and manifest physical illnesses like we do. Like us, these fears may have occurred in infancy and are still carried in the adult body.
You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!
Those who teach the most about humanity, aren’t always human.
Once bitten twice shy? Sure, but... why not get a bigger dog and bite them back?
Star, pillows don't attack dogs," Sam said.
"Or anything else," Turtle added.
Paranormal. It rolls off the tongue with such poetry but it means something like, beyond normal. There is nothing paranormal about magic. Magic is the norm.
- Penny Sweeney
Magic All Around
Some people tend to throw your love to the dogs when you become totally submissive to them, but when you want to get out of the heat, they pull you back into the kitchen.
You humans always try to make things too simple, except when you’re trying to make things too complicated. You can never just be with what is.
(regarding Charles Lee) This eccentric and notably slovenly man was always trailed by his beloved dogs. "When I can be convinced that men are as worthy objects as dogs", he once explained, "I shall transfer my benevolence to them.
New Rule: If you're one of the one-in-three married women who say your pet is a better listener than your husband, you talk too much. And I have some bad news for you: Your dog's not listening, either; he's waiting for food to fall out of your mouth.
The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do.
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.
A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.
I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am simply thankful that at least dogs exist, and I’m humbly aware of how much less a person I’d be – how less a human – if they did not exist.
Mankind has a mandate to care for the earth and all that is within it, especially the animals, and an animal should never be placed in a position where he needs to be concerned about such things. But this is not that time.
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
The dogs brought it all back to, you know, to the human side.
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.
This house is just a thing .... On your love list, always put the beating hearts at the top.
Songwriting is a bitch. And then it has puppies
Most of us humans have no idea how stressful any change is for animals.
people have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and intentions to the animal where none exist
A dog's spirit dies hard.
My cat brought me a toy. I thanked her and threw it. She sat there gave me a look that made me realize people and dogs are the crazy ones.
If you associate with eagles, you will learn how to soar to great heights. But if you run with dogs, you will learn how to bark.
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.
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.
I like dogs
Big dogs
Little dogs
Fat dogs
Doggy dogs
Old dogs
Puppy dogs
I like dogs
A dog that is barking over the hill
A dog that is dreaming very still
A dog that is running wherever he will
I like dogs.
Dogs are like kids. Cats are like roommates.
I have never tried to walk through a mall in the Christmas season dressed like a jolly old elf. You might as well dress up like a pork chop and walk into an alley full of starving dogs.
They began work at 5:30 and quit at 7 at night. Children six years old going home to lie on a straw pallet until time to resume work the next morning! I have seen the hair torn out of their heads by the machinery, their scalps torn off, and yet not a single tear was shed, while the poodle dogs were loved and caressed and carried to the seashore.
You've got to have, like, a lentil for a soul to hate wiener dogs.
Dogs are the best example of a being who doesn't need to lie to protect someone's pride.
Dogs, for a reason that can only be described as divine, have the ability to forgive, let go of the past, and live each day joyously. It’s something the rest of us strive for.
My dogs have been the reason I have woken up every single day of my life with a smile on my face.
Men are like dogs," Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they all took up too much space on the bed, and they always went for the crotch.
I've seen men suffer like rural dogs and others prosper like gods.
If men are dogs, then women are desperate dogs.
We all agree men are dogs, with the similar conviction let's also agree to the quiet truth; women are desperate dogs.
As dogs return to their vomit, some men return to their wives.
It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them.
Everything I know, I learned from dogs.
Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"
"I give."
"You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.