These dog quotes will remind you of just how amazing of our canine companions really are. For many people, there is nothing in this world that is purer than the love of a dog. A dog is ultimately selfless, and totally devoted to the humans who have chosen them. There are so many reasons to love dogs. If you’re a dog owner, you probably love your pup in the same way as a family member. Whether it’s waiting at the door when they know you’re coming home or wagging and happy barking when excited for food, dogs have a special place in our lives.
1# The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them. – Stanley Coren.
2# Love for humans has become an almost unassailable instinct in dogs. -Charles Darwin
3# When a dog loves you, he will always love you, no matter what you do, what happens to you, or how much time passes through you. — Jeffrey Mason
4# Owning a dog makes you richer, no matter how much you own. — Louis Sabin
5# I love kids, but let’s face it, your dog isn’t going to grow up and immediately growl and hate you like an enemy. –Barbara
6# Kids are for people who don’t have dogs. Dogs lead us into a kinder, gentler world. –Honey
7# The great joy of a dog, Sam, is that when you pretend to be mad at him, he doesn’t laugh at you, he goes mad with you. -butler
8# A dog is the only kind of love that money can buy — Stark
9# Dogs do not laugh at others and are tolerant and compassionate. — Du Bai
10# A dog that starts barking at a distance is harmless. -Tor Fuller
11# Its relationship with its master is like a traditional and old-fashioned marriage without the slightest idea of separation or divorce, from one end to the next. Dogs do not know betrayal, deceit, and doubt. -Du Bai
12# The master’s heart is the best graveyard for his dog. –Bingham Lampman
13# Adopting a dog may be our only chance to choose our family. — Mordecai Siegel
14# The most loyal friend in my life, the first to greet me, the first to protect me. -Byron
15# The more people I interact with, the more I like dogs. — Roland
16# A dog is the only creature that loves you more than you love yourself. — Wenlu
17# It’s not a bad thing for a dog to have just the right amount of fleas, so he doesn’t have time to think he’s a dog. — Love Westcott
18# Sometimes I wonder the real reason why dogs live so short and I think it must be because they are sympathetic to human beings, because if we have known a dog for ten or twelve years and it is so painful to lose it, what good is it to have a dog that lives twice as long? — Sir Scott
19# It is the greatest desire of a well-bred dog to please his friends before himself. — Francis
20# In today’s society, the indifference between people is not as good as the sincerity with dogs. — Dai Gengji
21# In prehistoric times, human beings chose dogs from nature, and it did not teach people disappointed after all, became the most understanding”human” meaning of the animal in nature. — Gabrielle Vincennes
22# Those who have never owned a dog can hardly imagine living with one, and those who have can’t imagine life without one. -Caroline
23# Dogs have a very short life span, which is really their only drawback. — Agnes
24# Dogs have a very short life span, which is really their only drawback. — Agnes
25# A Compliment to the Dog The bodies buried here were beautiful but not vain, strong but not proud, brave but not cruel, all human virtues and none of human faults. These words would be meaningless flattery if they were inscribed on anyone’s ashes; But for Bozswan, a dog. lt’s the fairest way to thank you. -Byron
26# Dogs lead us into a kinder, gentler world. — Honey
27# Dogs’ almost desperate need for humans is doomed to life at the mercy of man. — Peter Mayer
28# Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, unlike humans, who cannot love purely. In objective relationships, love and hate are always intertwined. – Freud
29# “You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you’re in faster than you can think of.” – Jill Abramso
30# “Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.” – Emily Dickinson
31# “A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.” ― Josh Billings
32# “Dogs are miracle with paws.” — Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy
33# “A dog will teach you, unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won’t be too bad.” – Robert Wagner
34# “There’s just something about dogs that makes you feel good. You come home, they’re thrilled to see you. They’re good for the ego.” – Janet Schnellman
35# “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.” – Mark Twain
36# “No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend.” — Will Rogers
37# “Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” – Roger Caras
38# “A dog doesn’t care if you’re rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.” – John Grogan
39# “The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.” – Henry Ward
40# “When I look into the eyes of an animal I do not see an animal. I see a living being. I see a friend. I feel a soul.” – A.D. Williams
41# “The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.” – M.K. Clinton
42# “I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross, and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.” – Mark Haddon
43# “A dog is the only thing that can mend a crack in your broken heart.” – Judy Desmond
44# “I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive.” – Gilda Radner
45# “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” – Will Rogers
46# “The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.” – Stanley Coren
47# “Dogs are how people would be if the important stuff is all that mattered to us.” – Ashly Lorenzana
48# “Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.” – Dean Koontz
49# “Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” – Ann Landers
50# “The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.” – Michel Houellebecq
51# “Until one has loved an animal a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” ― Anatole France
52# “If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.” – James Thurber
53# “When you adopt a dog, you have a lot of very good days and one very bad day.” – W. Bruce Cameron
54# “Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.” – Erica Jong
55# “No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.” – Christopher Morley
56# “Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.” – Alexander Pope
57# “If you don’t have a dog–at least one–there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.” – Vincent van Gogh
58# “There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.” – Benjamin Franklin
59# “I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh.” – Oprah Winfrey
60# “The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.” – Johnny Depp
61# “If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.” – Woodrow Wilson
62# “If you want loyalty get a dog. If you want loyalty and attention, get a smart dog.” — Grant Fairley
63# “For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog.” – Roger Caras
64# “Everybody should have a shelter dog. It’s good for the soul.” – Paul Shaffer
65# “Puppies are nature’s remedy for feeling unloved, plus numerous other ailments of life.” — Ann Landers
66# “Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.” – Dean Koontz
67# “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.” – John Grogan