Dogs And Humans Quotes

“From Chapter 1:

Isabel went into the kitchen. Their butterball of a beagle wagged his tail and peered up at her with his soulful brown eyes. He was eager to get his reward for looking cute as a button, and he knew she was a pushover.”
― Ed Lynskey, To Dye For

“A dog can never tell you what she knows from the
smells of the world, but you know, watching her,
that you know
almost nothing.”
― Mary Oliver, Dog Songs: Poems

“The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this Earth can ever be.”
― Konrad Lorenz

“So what is the fallout for dogs of the Lassie myth? As soon as you bestow intelligence and morality, you bestow the responsibility that goes along with them. In other words, if the dog knows it’s wrong to destroy furniture yet deliberately and maliciously does it, remembers the wrong he did and feels guilt, it feels like he merits a punishment2, doesn’t it? That’s just what dogs have been getting - a lot of punishment. We set them up for all kinds of punishment by overestimating their ability to think. Interestingly, it’s the “cold” behaviorist model that ends up giving dogs a much better crack at meeting the demands we make of them. The myth gives problems to dogs they cannot solve and then punishes them for failing. And the saddest thing is that the main association most dogs have with that punishment is the presence of their owner. This puts a pretty twisted spin on loooving dogs ‘cause they’re so smart, doesn’t it?”
― Jean Donaldson, The Culture Clash: A Revolutionary New Way to Understanding the Relationship Between Humans and Domestic Dogs

“All my seven dogs, who passed away, were great beings - a helluva lot better than most of the silly inhumane bums, mistakenly called human beings.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“Other useful commands to teach your dog are 'stay,' 'heel,' 'remove your snout from that person's groin,' 'stop humping the Barcalounger,' 'do not bark violently for two hours at inanimate objects such as a flowerpot,' ' do not eat poop,' and 'if you must eat poop, then at least refrain from licking my face afterward'.”
― Dave Barry, I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood

“Have you ever noticed how good it feels to stretch? Take a moment, I'll wait.”
― Eliza Knight, The Queen's Faithful Companion: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth II and Her Beloved Corgi, Susan, Library Edition

“I don’t really understand that process called reincarnation, but if there is such a thing, I’d like to come back as my daughter’s dog.”
― Leonard Cohen

“But see, it can be said we endure together
The knowing in part, the fragmentation, as if it were the whole.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus

“Want to know God? Keep a dog.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“Dogs have the heart of God.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“The entire point of ritualized communication, signalling, and threatening behavior in nature is to avoid actual conflicts and altercations. To assume that warnings are just an indication of intent to harm is backward.”
― Kim Brophey, Meet Your Dog: The Game-Changing Guide to Understanding Your Dog's Behavior

“What a disastrous dog owner I've been. What a squandering, through my soppy indulgence and inability to discipline a flea, of two marvellous dogs [who were put down].”
― Jilly Cooper, The Common Years

“I am not entirely sure that humans deserve the unconditional love of dogs.”
― Don Roff

“Dogs may be a man's best friends, but the proverb says, "Tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“A DOG THAT SWALLOWS AN ENGAGEMENT RING IS A DIAMOND IN THE RUFF”
― Lynn Byk, The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch

“Without Sally he would have given up on himself. He needed that dependence, he needed that love, that feeling of being needed. Before Sally he had never known what it was to love.”
― Katerina Diamond, The Teacher

“Sally had made him feel like he was worth loving. She had shown him that the world wasn’t entirely hateful.”
― Katerina Diamond, The Teacher

“I prefer the company of my real godly dogs, as much as other people do their unreal illusory gods.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“That dog can’t do one trick,” Bull observed, lighting a cigar in the front seat.

“Okra has too much pride to do tricks for mere human beings,” Mary Anne stated officiously. “His mind is on spiritual matters.”
― Pat Conroy, The Great Santini

“I have had friends who were dogs, but I have never had a dog who was not a friend.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“As I have grown older, I find that my being loves my dogs more and yet more than I ever did, will or do human beings. I think there's something wrong with me. Or I am becoming a better human being.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“Dogs are gods we know not.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“I laugh at all gods, including dogs.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“Dogs are the best anti depressant.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“Dogs are the best of gods.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“How lucky are you! People may or may not love you. However no matter how dark, bad, mad or screwed up are you, your dog loves you.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“Dogs are the pretty companions given to us by God to compensate for the ugly people who trespass our otherwise lovely life.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“People idealize their animals, and at the same time they patronizingly overlook a dog’s natural life – biting fleas, burying rotten bones, rolling in garbage, barking up an empty tree all night… But what do they do themselves? Bury stuff that will rot in secret and then dig it up and bury it again and rant and rave under empty trees. And the stuff they roll around in!”
― Tove Jansson, The True Deceiver

“Just a big hunk of love, all wrapped up in an intimidatingly strong and furry body.”
― Georgia Beers, This Christmas