30 Dog Mom Quotes That Will Give You All The Warm Fuzzies

Unknown

"Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong."

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Nora Roberts, The Search

"Everything I know, I learned from dogs."

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Anne Raver, in The New York Times

"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."

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Konrad Lorenz, Man Meets Dog

"The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be, a fact which should be noted by anyone who decides to acquire a canine friend."

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Unknown

"I take insults to my dog more personally than insults to myself."

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Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

"Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen."

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Caroline Knapp, The Color of Joy

"Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way."

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Roger A. Caras, A Celebration of Dogs

"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."

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Unknown

"I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person."

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Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie

"It's hard not to immediately fall in love with a dog who has a good sense of humor."

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Anonymous

"The more I know men, the better I like dogs."

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Mark Twain, republished by Albert Bigelow Paine in Mark Twain, A Biography

"Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and the dog would go in."

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Elizabeth Taylor, in a 1981 interview with The Times of London

"Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses."

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Unknown

"You can get true love from some humans and all dogs."

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Charles M. Shulz, Peanuts

"Happiness is a warm puppy."

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Maurice Maeterlinck, Le Double Jardin

"We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us."

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Josh Grogan, Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog

"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."

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John Holmes

"A dog is not 'almost human' and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such."

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Unknown

"Be the person your dog thinks you are."

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Josh Billings, collected by H. Montague for Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of The Great Humorist

"A dog is the only thing on earth, man or beast, that loves you better than he does himself."

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Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

"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 a man."

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Unknown

"People think I'm crazy because I talk to my dogs. What am I supposed to do? Just ignore them when they ask me a question?"

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Samuel Butler

"The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."

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Kristan Higgins, Catch of the Day

"When an 85-pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad."

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Bob Barker

"A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life."

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Jerome K. Jerome, On Cats and Dogs

"They never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation."

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Unknown

"If the kindest souls were rewarded with the longest lives, dogs would outlive us all."

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Doris Day

"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."

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Alice Walker, Crimes Against Dog

"Dogs understand something I was late learning: When we are mean to anybody or any being it is because we are temporarily not ourselves. We're somebody else inhabiting these bodies we think of as us. They recognize this."

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