1,020 Quotes About Dogs

No, I mean really listen. Here's a story, and you don't have to visit manyhouses to find it. One person is talking,the other one is not really listening.someone can look like they are but they'reactually thinking about something they want to say, or their minds are justwandering. Or they're looking at thatlittle box people hold in their hands thesedays. And people get discouraged, so theyquit trying. And the very quiet people,you may have noticed, are often the sadpeople.

In his grief over the loss of a dog, a little boy stands for the first time on tiptoe, peering into the rueful morrow of manhood. After this most inconsolable of sorrows there is nothing life can do to him that he will not be able somehow to bear.

It had come from one of two corgis who were even now slamming their preposterous bodies into each other not far away, trying to roll each other over, which runs contrary to the laws of mechanics even in the case of corgis that are lean and trim, which these were not.This struggle, which appeared to be only one skirmish in a conflict of epochal standing, had driven all lesser considerations, such as guarding the gate, from the combatants' sphere of attention...

Nigel half-smiled. How Stella's eyes sparkled in the firelight!"I heard you play the violin very well.""I play a few tunes."Stella Chapman's voice tailed off, her red hair fell forward, screening her face."And you?" Billy said, diverting attention to the sandy-haired questioner. "What do you plan to do with the rest of your life?"Nigel went quiet."Anything, I guess." He threw out his arms, his palms facing upward. How would they understand? Only he had lived his life.

You don't know how shallow you are, or how narcissistic, until you acquire a facial scar. On the plus side, it's so situated as to make me look tough and worldly. On the downside, I'm never kissing my dog again.

They say that unless you're the lead dog, the view never changes. Then again, if you're a dog you probably like that view.

It was a sensitive and musical dog.

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.

Cats, of course, are easier to make fun of. The cutest cat is still a freak. Where
dogs are sympathetic, almost tragic, figures, cats are pure comedy. Dogs are your
buddies, cats are entertainment They're like a TV show. There's nothing funnier than when a cat falls off of something. When a dog falls down a couple of stairs, you rush to it and console it. But when a cat does it, it's funny—you point at it and laugh (which they don't like, incidentally).