170+ of the Best Dog Inspired Quotes and Sayings

“The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.”  – Lord Byron

“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

“I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs.”  – Barbara Woodhouse

“It’s tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won’t drink from my glass.” – Rodney Dangerfield

“There is no faith which has never yet been broken except that of a truly faithful dog.”  – Konrad Lorenz

“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.” – Ben Williams

“When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.” – Edward Abbey

“Only my dogs will not betray me.” – Maria Callas

“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

“Intelligent dogs rarely want to please people whom they do not respect.”  – W.R. Koehler

“Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives.”  – Sue Murphy

“Even the tiniest Poodle or Chihuahua is still a wolf at heart.”  – Dorothy Hinshaw

“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”  – Dwight Eisenhower

“Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.”  – Agnes Turnbull

“The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.”  – Stanley Coren

“My dog is half pit-bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip.” – Craig Shoemaker

“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.” – Mark Twain

“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 A. Caras

“You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.”  – Robert Benchley

“Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks.”  – Roger A. Caras

“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

“Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it watching for us to come home each day.” – John Grogan