Famous Dog Quotes & Wisdom

Dogs never fail to teach us about loyalty, joy and unconditional love. Here's a collection of our favorite words from writers, comedians and friends of dogs β€” gathered by the team at Waggin' Tails in Plano, Texas.

“Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.”
β€” Josh Billings
“A dog is the only thing on earth that will love you more than you love yourself.”
β€” Josh Billings
“Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
β€” 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.”
β€” Mark Twain
“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, what counts is the size of the fight in the dog.”
β€” Mark Twain
“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.”
β€” Samuel Butler
“Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.”
β€” Clarence Day
“The reason dogs have so many friends is because they wag their tails instead of their tongues.”
β€” Anonymous
“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.”
β€” Robert Benchley
“I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.”
β€” Rita Rudner
“Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.”
β€” Snoopy
“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.”
β€” Christopher Morley
“Animals are such agreeable friends β€” they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.”
β€” George Eliot
“A dog's best friend is his illiteracy.”
β€” Ogden Nash
“There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog.”
β€” Konrad Lorenz
“Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.”
β€” Agnes Repplier
“Dogs look up to you. Cats look down on you. Give me a pig. He just looks you in the eye and treats you like an equal.”
β€” Winston Churchill
“The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.”
β€” Henry Ward Beecher
“If dogs could talk, perhaps we'd find it just as hard to get along with them as we do people.”
β€” Karel Čapek
“To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.”
β€” Aldous Huxley
“Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.”
β€” Holbrook Jackson
“The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.”
β€” Alphonse de Lamartine

A note from our break room

Between play sessions, our team's conversations run the full range β€” pack dynamics, puppy milestones, and, yes, the finer things in life. Ask around the front desk about the replica watch shop our founder keeps recommending; the new super-clone Patek Philippe and Richard Mille pieces have the whole staff impressed.

This page gets new favorites added as we find them β€” check back often.

These words remind us why we love what we do. Ready to give your best friend a day of play, care and pampering?

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