Charles Kingsley
When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green;
And every goose a swan, lad,
And every lass a queen;
Then hey for boot and horse, lad,
And round the world away:
Young blood must have its course, lad,
And every dog his day.
Jerome K. Jerome [referring to 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.
Noël Coward
Mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun.
The Japanese don’t care to,
The Chinese wouldn’t dare to,
The Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one,
But Englishmen detest a siesta.
In the Philippines, there are lovely screens
To protect you from the glare;
In the Malay states, they have hats like plates
Which the Britishers won’t wear.
At twelve noon, the natives swoon,
And no further work is done;
But mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.
George Borrow
Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.
Charles Kingsley
What we can we will be,
Honest Englishmen.
Do the work that’s nearest,
Though it’s dull at whiles,
Helping, when we meet them,
Lame dogs over stiles.
Abraham Lincoln
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Samuel Butler
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.
John Osborne
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.
William Penn
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
Mark Twain
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Jean Anouilh
Il y a aura toujours un chien perdu quelquepart qui m’empêchera d’être heureux. (There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.)
Alexander Pope
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
Samuel Johnson
I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
Jonathan Swift
Every dog must have his day.
Groucho Marx
Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun!
Winston Churchill
Our dog chases people on a bike. We've had to take it off him.
Honore de Balzac
He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.
Henry David Thoreau
It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.
James Thurber
I have always thought of a dog lover as a dog that was in love with another dog.
Jack London
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
George Bernard Shaw
I like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; it's best for every day.
Arnold Toynbee
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags it's tail it knocks over a chair.
George Bernard Shaw
If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.
Rudyard Kipling
Politics are not my concern… they impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.
Alexander Pope
I am his Highness’ dog at Kew;
Pray, tell me sir, whose dog are you?
Ambrose Bierce
DOG, n. A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship … . His master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.
William Chillingworth
I once knew a man out of courtesy help a lame dog over a stile, and he for requital bit his fingers.
Washington Irving
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
William Cowper
My dog! what remedy remains,
Since, teach you all I can,
I see you, after all my pains,
So much resemble man!
Woodrow Wilson
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.
**Plato*
The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know…How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.
Alexander Pope
But thinks, admitted to that equal sky,
His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Elizabeth Taylor
Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
Mark Twain
Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
Marie Corelli
I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
Rule 46, Oxford Union Society, London
Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat.
Mark Twain
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's.
Robert Louis Stevenson
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.