For thousands of years, dogs have walked beside us, guarded our homes, and loved us harder than we have ever deserved.
From philosophers and poets to presidents and novelists, the world’s sharpest minds have tried to put the human–dog bond into words.
The best Dog Quotes capture it all: loyalty without conditions, joy without agenda, and the quiet heartbreak of a life that ends too soon.
In this collection you will find 66 quotes in five sections — famous sayings, short captions, loyalty and love, inspiration, and words for remembering our dogs. So, let’s hear what the dogs have taught us.
14 Famous Dog Quotes
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
Mark Twain
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
Josh Billings
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
Roger Caras
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles M. Schulz
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man’s.
Mark Twain
Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.
Orhan Pamuk
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
Christopher Morley
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
Anatole France
The great 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
I have seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
John Steinbeck
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader.
Rudyard Kipling
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
Will Rogers
My little dog — a heartbeat at my feet.
Edith Wharton
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13 Short Dog Quotes
Love is a four-legged word.
Unknown
Home is wherever my dog is.
Unknown
My shadow has four paws.
Unknown
Life is better with a dog by your side.
Unknown
Every wag tells a story of love.
Unknown
Dogs leave paw prints on our hearts.
Unknown
Loyalty has four legs and a tail.
Unknown
A dog’s love is pure and unconditional.
Unknown
My heart walks on four legs.
Unknown
Some angels choose fur instead of wings.
Unknown
Happiness is having a dog to come home to.
Unknown
Together, we make the perfect team.
Unknown
A dog is happiness wrapped in fur.
Unknown
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13 Dog Loyalty & Love Quotes
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 Caras
The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.
Konrad Lorenz
Be the person your dog thinks you are.
C.J. Frick
No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich.
Louis Sabin
Dogs are miracles with paws.
Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy
A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won’t be too bad.
Robert Wagner
I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.
Will Rogers
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
Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.
Mordecai Siegal
A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well — almost.
Charlotte Gray
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
Max Eastman
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Andy Rooney
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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13 Inspirational Dog Quotes
The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.
M.K. Clinton
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
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
A dog is better than I am, for he has love and does not judge.
St. Xanthias
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
A house without either a cat or a dog is the house of a scoundrel.
Proverb
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
If I could be half the person my dog is, I’d be twice the human I am.
Charles Yu
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
Ben Williams
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 can always find hope in a dog’s eyes.
Unknown
Every dog must have his day.
English Proverb
Let sleeping dogs lie.
English Proverb
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13 Remembering Our Dogs Quotes
Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.
Agnes Sligh Turnbull
Beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man without his vices.
Lord Byron
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
William Penn
Grief is the price we pay for love.
Queen Elizabeth II
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
Mark Twain
Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you ever wanted.
Unknown
Rescue is my favorite breed.
Unknown
Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one is a life diminished.
Dean Koontz
When you have a dog, you will never walk alone.
Unknown
In a perfect world, every dog would have a home and every home would have a dog.
Unknown
Dogs teach us what unconditional love truly means.
Unknown
The love of a dog is a pure thing.
Unknown
You know the pain is coming, you know you’re going to lose a dog, and there’s going to be great anguish, so you live fully in the moment with her.
Dean Koontz
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Keep this page for captions, cards, and the days when your dog deserves to hear it. A dog will never read these words, but loving them well is the whole point.
