“There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner.”
Source: Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
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“A lost dog is bad; a lost man is terrible.”
In Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave, Ur III Period (21st century BCE). http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.2.1#
“Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.”
Biography at IMDB http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0471036/bio
Source: Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems
“Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad.”
Although very commonly attributed to Fields, this is derived from a statement that was actually first said about him by Leo Rosten during a "roast" at the Masquer's Club in Hollywood in 1939, as Rosten explains in his book, The Power of Positive Nonsense (1977) "The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields ... is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad."
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Variant: Anyone who hates babies and dogs can't be all bad.
“Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.”
Source: Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
“It wasn’t so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 10.
“Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.”
Although a very common misconception is to attribute the final part of this quote to W.C. Fields himself, it was actually first said about him by Rosten during a "roast" of Fields at the Masquer's Club in Hollywood in 1939, as Rosten explains in his book, The Power of Positive Nonsense (1977).
Context: The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields … is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.