Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw. Men made dogs, they took wolves and gave them human things--unnecessary intelligence, names, a desire to belong, and a twitching inferiority complex. All dogs dream wolf dreams, and know they're dreaming of biting their Maker. Every dog knows, deep in his heart, that he is a Bad Dog...
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Related Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operat... TERRY PRATCHETT No two dogs are alike. And yet, all dogs have something in common that makes them dogs, and makes th... OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY I like dogs Big dogs Little dogs Fat dogs Doggy dogs Old dogs Puppy do... MARGARET WISE BROWN Somehow, he knows which dogs are nice. One dog tried to bite him, and Chester gave the dog a bloody ... BRETT SHARMAN Slowly, deliberately, the dog turned from the black wolf and walked toward the man. He was a dog, an... JIM KJELGAARD Dog owners who have dogs with a respiratory infection should keep their dogs at home. As far as the ... CYNDA CRAWFORD Dog parks are a great way to give dogs a little exercise and meet other people. But it's important t... JACK RUSSELL Obviously he lives with his dogs and takes good care of them, they are much better off with him than... FRANCESCA CANTALINI I'm convinced that petting a puppy is good luck. MEG DONOHUE You probably think you know all about men, because you read a lot of romance novels, so you think yo... OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY So when two dogs are fighting in the streets,
When a third dog one of the two dogs meets:
With... HENRY FIELDING Poor Cook, thought Captain, I must be kinder to her. She makes a splendid pet. How faithful she is! ... T.H. WHITE I wish I could show people the joy of the relationship of a well-behaved dog. Early training and ear... BRIAN KILCOMMONS A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there ar... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW It's the dogs that get the bad wrap. Once you get a dog you have to socialize them and get them arou... DOLORIS GIANNINI By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... NANETTE L. AVERY Dogs (like rats) are multitalented but they are also not very smart the way humans are. A recent boo... JEAN DONALDSON Mr. Cat and Mr. Dog were neighbors who fought like, well, cats and dogs. That is until Mr. Rat moved... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH I don't appreciate people who celebrate their dog's birthdays with "dog parties," and then invite th... CHELSEA HANDLER So what is the fallout for dogs of the Lassie myth? As soon as you bestow intelligence and morality,... JEAN DONALDSON But with dogs, we do have "bad dog." Bad dog exists. "Bad dog! Bad dog! Stole a biscuit, bad dog!" T... EDDIE IZZARD But with dogs, we do have “bad dog.” Bad dog exists. “Bad dog! Bad dog! Stole a biscuit, bad d... EDDIE IZZARD I thought it was a Dog-eat-Dog World but now it is also a Man-eat-Dog World!!!
(in response to tortu... JAI SINGH But with dogs, we do have bad dog. Bad dog exists. Bad dog! Bad dog! Stole a biscuit, bad dog!... EDDIE IZZARD I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concen... MARK HADDON I can say I trained these dogs, and I know that the dog will not make a mistake. ABDUL WAHID My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didn’t want ... W. BRUCE CAMERON If a dog fights with other dogs, if a dog does anything aggressive, he has to stay in the kennel. BARBARA MARINO Domestic dogs follow humans like a laser and watch the behavior of their humans with a focus that is... PATRICIA MCCONNELL The earth is full of them - dogs, and humans. One should get to know them - dogs. They're so human. FAKEER ISHAVARDAS Because dogs live in the present. Because dogs don't hold grudges. Because dogs let go of all their ... STEVEN ROWLEY The very best thing about dogs is how they just know when you need them most, and they’ll drop eve... STEVEN ROWLEY I'm not a dog-owner, to my dogs, I'm their mother. JENNIFER WAGNER Not all dogs are perfect dogs, but all dogs are inherently good. Like people, we are affected by env... KATE MCGAHAN My dream pet? I like a couple of them, man: monkey, I love dogs. See, tigers, I don't know - I c... FRENCH MONTANA If you live with dogs, you'll never run out of things to write about. SHARON DELAROSE There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-ma... NEIL GAIMAN A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there ar... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW We are getting a renaissance downtown. We've got designer restaurants and designer dogs, and (people... KATHY RUSSELL Everyone knows dogs. Most people love dogs. I think most American families probably have a dog, but ... ROBERT CRAIS We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their... BRIGITTE BARDOT A lot of people get these dogs because they want - pardon my expression - a bad-ass dog. DENNIS MCCULLOUGH All my dogs are socialized every day and they all have names. We are inspected and the inspectors ha... GARY MCDUFFEE There are bad dogs of every breed. You can make any dog mean. My opinion is that pit bulls make good... AL DAMS I'm never without my dog. They would be in every corner of the house, and my wife will not allow... GEORGE FOREMAN To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. ALDOUS HUXLEY To his dog, every man is Napolean, hence the constant popularity of dogs. ALDOUS HUXLEY ADA issues are ones that a lot of counties don't think about when drafting dog-specific ordinances. ... DAWN CAPP Men are like dogs," Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they a... LISA KLEYPAS Our dog kind of got a little jumpy ... and the dogs went to kind of say hello and he swung his stick... AMANDA OGDEN Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer LEO ROSTEN And so I learned by observation, interaction, and experience - as well as active study and research ... YOHAI REUBEN Another thing I take issue with are people who take their dogs on "play dates," or even worse, peopl... CHELSEA HANDLER I love that there are beaches you can walk your dog on in San Francisco. Fort Funston is big and alw... JANE WIEDLIN My line of thoughts about dogs is analogous. A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky do... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The dog looked up in entreaty. Liquid brown eyes begged: Take me with you. I’ll be good. Oh, the l... COURTNEY MILAN A lot of people get around with canes and dogs, ... I've always been a dog lover, and to pick betwee... CLAIRE GILBERT We think there is a difference between a fully trained service dog who is accompanying a student who... JUDI WILLIS Gypsy aren't only poor, but they are brutal and not so nice people. World has smashed them, that the... DEYTH BANGER Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all. JOHN GROGAN The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs! ANONYMOUS Eating with a dog nearby may turn some customers off. But then there are some people who do everythi... CHRIS ARMSTRONG Bites are usually not random attacks by strays. The great majority of biting dogs belong to a family... JON KATZ My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not. ANNA HELD The little dogs are allowed on the big-dog side, but the big dogs aren't allowed on the little-dog s... HOLLY SWOAPE Golden retrievers are not bred to be guard dogs, and considering the size of their hearts and their ... DEAN KOONTZ A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around ... TOMMY COOPER Most agility instructors would say that if a dog has made a mistake, then the handler made a mistake... HELEN CASTELLANO As the number of people who treat dogs like their own family members and closely interact with them ... YOON KERR I think you should only take your dog if it can get along with other dogs. BETH PATTERSON You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS Only dogs know and respect their masters. This is a rare characteristic of men who secretly envy the... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI Every dog might wish to be Dog One, but like us, most dogs want membership in the group even more th... ELIZABETH MARSHALL THOMAS Up until the age of 12, I went to dog shows every weekend. Mum showed beagles. It's a really com... REBEL WILSON In a society where people are obsessed with personal space, dogs have come to serve as welcome, neo-... OKEY NDIBE I grew up with a menagerie of dogs, cats, gerbils - not to mention three younger siblings. K. A. APPLEGATE Some people think a dog is a dog, and some people think this dog is a part of my family. Some people... JACKIE JORDAN I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that... JOHN STEINBECK I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced tha... JOHN STEINBECK All three are pay sheet dogs and have made a difference in the kennel. They are steady, consistent, ... RODNEY COOLEY My childhood was spent with dogs, and I work with dogs surrounding me. This relationship is hardly u... DAVID WROBLEWSKI Reformation with men and dogs never goes very deep. L.M. MONTGOMERY My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings. FLANN O'BRIEN Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God. MARY BLY William groaned. It was Vimes. Worse, he was smiling, in a humourless predatory way. "Ah, Mr de... TERRY PRATCHETT People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story. JIM BUTCHER By standard intelligence texts, the dogs have failed at the puzzle. I believe, by contrast that they... ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ And in that town a dog was found,
As many dogs there be,
Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound,... OLIVER GOLDSMITH I nearly tripped over Stieglitz, my dog, a forty-pound black-and-white keeshond (pronounced caze-haw... JOAN BAUER There are a number of people in the community who are handicapped and rely on guide dogs. They are w... GINGER LOWE I once fed a dog-fight operator to the dogs he had abused for so long, and do you want to know somet... CEDRIC NYE A young dog's faith is absolute... Dogs are notorious for hope. Dogs believe that this morning, ... DONALD MCCAIG It is only a gesture," he said, turning back to Shadow. "But gestures mean everything. The death of ... NEIL GAIMAN Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on ... MILAN KUNDERA Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on ... MILAN KUNDERA I often think about dogs when I think about work and retirement. There are many breeds of dog that j... MARTHA SHERRILL Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER Dogs' lives are short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you're going to lose... DEAN KOONTZ
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TERRY PRATCHETT The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from... TERRY PRATCHETT Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves ... TERRY PRATCHETT The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who t... TERRY PRATCHETT I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said i... TERRY PRATCHETT In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. TERRY PRATCHETT No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head ... TERRY PRATCHETT Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a w... TERRY PRATCHETT At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings a... TERRY PRATCHETT Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken. TERRY PRATCHETT I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of ... TERRY PRATCHETT The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valle... TERRY PRATCHETT She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their ... TERRY PRATCHETT His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability wh... TERRY PRATCHETT Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded ... TERRY PRATCHETT Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We ... TERRY PRATCHETT The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last ... TERRY PRATCHETT Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page. TERRY PRATCHETT Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect. TERRY PRATCHETT The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes af... TERRY PRATCHETT Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I ... TERRY PRATCHETT It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying iso... TERRY PRATCHETT Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be ... TERRY PRATCHETT Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantasti... TERRY PRATCHETT Rincewind had been told that death was just like going into another room. The difference is, when yo... TERRY PRATCHETT The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf ... TERRY PRATCHETT Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves ar... TERRY PRATCHETT "Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary... TERRY PRATCHETT A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. TERRY PRATCHETT Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and ... TERRY PRATCHETT It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If ... TERRY PRATCHETT It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence coul... TERRY PRATCHETT An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs ... TERRY PRATCHETT A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. TERRY PRATCHETT Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate... TERRY PRATCHETT The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then... TERRY PRATCHETT For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) ... TERRY PRATCHETT Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his l... TERRY PRATCHETT In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded. TERRY PRATCHETT Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. TERRY PRATCHETT The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. TERRY PRATCHETT God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which migh... TERRY PRATCHETT