207+ EXCLUSIVE Dog Quotes That Are So True

With their carefree spirit and unconditional love, dogs are our best friends. Our furry friend cheers us up when we are feeling down and gives us a laugh when we need one.

Famous dog quotes that every animal lover will relate about living with dog show us a few reasons to thank our dog.

If you’re searching for quotations about animals that perfectly capture what you’d like to say or just want to feel inspired yourself, browse through an amazing collection of inspiring cat quotes, amazing lion quotes and top butterfly quotes.

Best Dog Quotes

My fashion philosophy is, if you’re not covered in dog hair, your life is empty. – Elayne Boosler

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen. – Orhan Pamuk

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. – Robert Benchley

Everything I know I learned from dogs. – Nora Roberts

The average dog is nicer than the average person. – Andy Rooney

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

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

Be the person your dog thinks you are. – C.J. Frick

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. – Roger Caras

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach. – Moby

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. – Kinky Friedman

The dog is the god of frolic. – Henry Ward Beecher

Having a dog will bless you with many of the happiest days of your life, and one of the worst.

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn’t a dog. – Charles M Schulz

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. – Charles De Gaulle

Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished. – Dean Koontz

Dog is God spelled backward. – Duane Chapman

The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn’t pose. He isn’t aware of the camera. – Patrick Demarchelier

Cute Dog Quotes

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. Samuel Butler

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

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. Josh Billings

Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made. Roger A. Caras

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

Happiness is a warm puppy. Charles Shultz

Love that which biologists, nervous about being misunderstood, call ‘attachment ‘fuels the bond between dog and master or mistress. John Bradshaw

My little dog a heartbeat at my feet. Edith Wharton

Dogs never bite me. Just Humans Marilyn Monroe

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

Did you know that there are over 300 words for love in canine? Gabriel Zevin

To err is human to forgive, canine.

You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him. W. Bruce Cameron

The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be. Konrad Lorenz

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive. Gilda Radner

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. Winston Churchill

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. Aldous Huxley

Dogs leave pawprints on our hearts.

Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job. Franklin P. Jones

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

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people. Capek

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. It is the principal difference between a dog and a man. Mark Twain

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. Maurice Maeterlinck

The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog. M.K. Clinton

Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog. Franklin P. Jones

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

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 Abramson

Only my dogs will not betray me. Maria Callas

Inspirational Dog Quotes

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. Caroline Knapp

When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated. Sara Paretsky

One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you’re feeling blue is that he doesn’t try to find out why.

Every dog must have his day. Jonathan Swift

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn’t merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog. Edward Hoagland

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

My dog is half pitbull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip. Craig Shoemaker

My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day with my blankie, my cat, and my dog. Anne Lamott

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. Alexander Pope

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die, I want to go where they went. Will Rogers

As wonderful as dogs can be, they are famous for missing the point. Jean Ferris

No animal I know of can consistently be more of a friend and companion than a dog. Stanley Leinwall

The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. George Graham

What do dogs do on their day off? Can’t lie around that’s their job. George Carlin

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment to animals. Immanuel Kant

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

Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all. John Grogan

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does. Christopher Morley

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

No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you feel rich. Louis Sabin

Old dogs, like old shoes, are comfortable. They might be a bit out of shape and a little worn around the edges, but they fit well. Bonnie Wilcox

Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. Ann Landers

I Love My Dog Quotes

I don’t understand people who don’t touch their pets. Their cat or dog is called a pet for a reason. Jarod Kintz

If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. Harry Truman

Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them and filling an emptiness we didn’t even know we had. Thom Jones

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

Dogs teach us a very important lesson in life: The mailman is not to be trusted. Sian Ford

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are the god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods. Christopher Hitchens

The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog. Carrie Underwood

A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well almost. Charlotte Gray

It’s no coincidence that man’s best friend cannot talk.

A well-trained dog will make no attempt to share your lunch. He will just make you feel so guilty that you cannot enjoy it. Helen Thomson

A dog is the only thing that can mend a crack in your broken heart. Judy Desmond

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

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. Author Unknown

Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes. Gene Hill

A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty. John Grogan

I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not better for it. Abraham Lincoln

The very best thing about dogs is how they just know when you need them most, and they’ll drop everything that they’re doing to sit with you awhile. Steven Rowley

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants. Johnny Depp

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. Andy Rooney

I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that dogs think humans are nuts. John Steinbeck

Dogs are minor angels, and I don’t mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally, forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to do anything that makes us happy, etcetera. If we attributed some of those qualities to a person, we would say they are special. If they had ALL of them, we would call them angelic. But because it’s only a dog, we dismiss them as sweet or funny but little more. However, when you think about it, what are the things that we most like in another human being? Many times, those qualities are seen in our dogs every single day we’re just so used to them that we pay no attention. Jonathan Carroll

People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way. Ashly Lorenzana

No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish consciously or unconsciously that we were as innocent as they are and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown. Dean Koontz

Short Dog Quotes

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail. Fran Lebowitz

When an eighty-five-pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it’s hard to feel sad. Kristan Higgins

I’m a lot less cranky when it’s just me and my dog. Bob Peterson

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. Albert Einstein

The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest. Martin Luther

Everyone thinks they have the best dog. And none of them are wrong. W.R. Purche

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

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

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

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

They had buried him under our elm tree, they said yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart. Willie Morris

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

If you live with dogs, you’ll never run out of things to write about. Sharon Delarose

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear. Dave Barry

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

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

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

Being this cute must be so freaking ruff. – Unknown

The love between dog and man is idyllic. It knows no conflicts, no hair-raising scenes; it knows no development. Milan Kundera

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

People have been asking me if I was going to have kids, and I had puppies instead. – Kate Jackson

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

A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me. Barack Obama

Little pup, big world. Unknown

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. Andy Rooney

If I could be half the person my dog is, I’d be twice the human I am. Charles Yu

Hounds follow those who feed them. Otto von Bismarck

Life is a series of dogs. George Carlin

Touching Dog Quotes

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

Puppies are nature’s remedy for feeling unloved, plus numerous other ailments of life. Richard Allen Palm

The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down. Gordon Korman

Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dog. Ernest Thompson Seton

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

Dogs have more love than integrity. They’ve been true to us, yes, but they haven’t been true to themselves. Clarence Day

When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster. Dean Koontz

I don’t think twice about picking up my dog’s poop, but if another dog’s poop is next to it, I think, ‘Eww, dog poop! Jonah Goldberg

The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. ‘I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with that, kiss you.’ There are no ulterior motives with a dog, no mind games, no second-guessing, no complicated negotiations or bargains, and no guilt trips or grudges if a request is denied. Caroline Knapp

Dogs are how people would be if the important stuff is all that mattered to us. Ashly Lorenzana

Every dog has his day unless he loses his tail, then he has a weekend. June Carter Cash

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more. Agatha Christie

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. Anatole France

My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. That’s almost $21.00 in dog money. Joe Weinstein

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog. Mark Twain

Dogs act exactly the way we would act if we had no shame. Cynthia Heimel

The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother– and they’ll settle for a puppy every time. Winston Pendleton

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. Groucho Marx

I just want to be in my sweats, walk my dog, watch TV and eat pizza. America Ferrera

Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment. Caroline Knapp

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors? Saint Basil

It’s just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn’t it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal. John Grogan

Ever consider what our dogs must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul, chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth! Anne Tyler

In a dog’s life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us. John Grogan

The gift which I am sending you is called a dog and is, in fact, the most precious and valuable possession of mankind Theodorus Gaza

You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us. Robert Louis Stevenson

A dog may be man’s best friend, but a child’s best friend is a puppy. – Unknown

The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people. Daniel Pinkwater

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. Rita Rudner

Being a hero to someone, even if it is a dog, is a feeling like no other. Though it can be frustrating, it can be the most rewarding thing to give someone a second chance at a happy life. Elizabeth Parker

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

Because dogs live in the present. Because dogs don’t hold grudges. Because dogs let go of all their anger daily, hourly, and never let it fester. They absolve and forgive with each passing minute. Every turn of a corner is the opportunity for a clean slate. Every bounce of a ball brings joy and the promise of a fresh chase. Steven Rowley

I once decided not to date a guy because he wasn’t excited to meet my dog. I mean, this was like not wanting to meet my mother. Bonnie Schacter

Did you know that there are over 300 words for love in canine? Gabriel Zevin

The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic. Henry Ward

My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life. Michael Sheen

Over the years I’ve come to appreciate how animals enter our lives prepared to teach and far from being burdened by an inability to speak they have many different ways to communicate. It is up to us to listen more than hear, to look into more than past. Nick Trout

Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go in circles, and we seem unable to break away, wondering what horrible event the future holds for us, the dog opens a window into the delight of the moment. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. Dean Koontz

The dog has got more fun out of a man than man has got out of the dog, for man is the more laughable of the two animals. James Thurber

Golden retrievers are not bred to be guard dogs and considering the size of their hearts and their irrepressible joy in life, they are less likely to bite than to bark, less likely to bark than to lick a hand in greeting. In spite of their size, they think they are lap dogs, and in spite of being dogs, they think they are also human, and nearly every human they meet is judged to have the potential to be a boon companion who might, at many moment, cry, ‘Let’s go!’ and lead them on a great adventure. Dean Koontz

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling the man up to its level of sagacity, but the man has frequently dragged the dog down to his. James Thurber

In my lap I had my dear little pug, the smell of whose ears will always be sweeter to me than all the perfumes of Araby and the scent of heliotrope combined. Kathryn Davis

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

Dog Captions for Instagram

Life is too short to just have one dog.

Thanks fur the memories.

Live. Laugh. Bark.

You can’t buy happiness, but you can rescue it.

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

Dogs are my favorite people.

My dog thinks I’m a catch.

I will always woof you.

My little dog – a heartbeat at my feet. Edith Wharton

My best friend has a fur and a tail.

All you need is love and a dog.

You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter. Kate DiCamillo

Love is a four-legged word.

Happiness is a warm puppy. Charles Shultz

A dog will teach you, unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won’t be too bad. Robert Wagner

If you want a friend, buy a dog. Kevin O’Leary

It’s impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more puppies.

The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment. Robert Falcon Scott

The more people I meet the more I like my dog.

My cats inspire me daily. They inspire me to get a dog! Greg Curtis