Quotes about dogs

A collection of quotes on the topic of horse, cats, animals, dogs.

Best quotes about dogs

„People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for some underdog anyway!“

— Matka Tereza Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin 1910 - 1997

„The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.“

— Hayao Miyazaki Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka 1941

Variant: The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.

„No chaos, damn it.“

— Jackson Pollock American artist 1912 - 1956

„If they let me choose between you and the dog, I'll choose the dog.“

— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963

„I am a cub of a tiger; don't mistake me with a carcass eating dog.“

— Amar Singh Thapa Supreme Commander of the Western Front of Nepal 1751 - 1816

Translated by Arjun Bhadra Khanal https://500px.com/photo/29827237/amar-singh-thapa-badakaji-by-arjun-bhadra-khanal|
In the context of wealth offered by British General David Ochterlony during Anglo-Nepalese War.
Quote
Original: (ne) म बाघको बच्चा डमरु हुँ, सिनो खाने कुकुर हैन ।

„Dogs never bite me. Just humans.“

— Marilyn Monroe American actress, model, and singer 1926 - 1962

As quoted in "A Beautiful Child" in Music for Chameleons (1980) by Truman Capote

„I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.“

— Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941

„I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.“

— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

„Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.“

— Emily Dickinson American poet 1830 - 1886

„There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.“

— Benjamin Franklin American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, a… 1706 - 1790

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„Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.“

— Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

Time Enough for Love (1973)

Women, Men, Cats, Idea

„If today is Children's Day, yesterday I said that child… the children's day is mother's day, father's day and teachers' day, but is also the day of the animals. Whenever you look at a child, there is always a hidden figure, which is a dog behind, which is something very important.“

— Dilma Rousseff 36th President of Brazil 1947

Speech in Porto Alegre http://www2.planalto.gov.br/acompanhe-o-planalto/discursos/discursos-da-presidenta/discurso-da-presidenta-da-republica-dilma-rousseff-na-cerimonia-de-anuncio-de-investimentos-do-pac-mobilidade-urbana-e-entrega-de-57-maquinas-motoniveladoras ( YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3IvZToSwgE), October 12.
2013

Children, Teachers, Animals

„The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.“

— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963

Love

„If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.“

— Harriet Tubman African-American abolitionist and humanitarian 1820 - 1913

Freedom

„Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?'

'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.'

'The dog did nothing in the night-time.'

'That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.“

— Arthur Conan Doyle, book The Adventure of Silver Blaze

Source: Silver Blaze

Time, Drawing, Night

„I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.“

— Bill Murray American actor and comedian 1950

People, Personality

„The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.“

— Heinrich Heine German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic 1797 - 1856

People

„Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon. I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh. The fact that we still live with dogs, even when we don't have to herd or hunt our dinner, gives me hope for humans and canines alike.“

— Oprah Winfrey American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist 1954

Love, Money, People, Hope

„If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.“

— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910

Variant: If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

„Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.“

— Susan B. Anthony American women's rights activist 1820 - 1906

Life, Birthday, Wedding, Memory

„Dogs like everyone. Cats choose who to like.“

— Lauren Myracle, book Shine

Source: Shine

Cats

„If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.“

— Charles Bukowski, book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

Love, Hell

„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, book No More Dead Dogs

Source: No More Dead Dogs

Books

„A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.“

— Arthur Conan Doyle, book The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Life, People, Sadness, Family

„The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.“

— Andy Rooney writer, humorist, television personality 1919 - 2011

Personality, Funny, For Men

„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 American actress, singer, and animal rights activist 1922 - 2019

„If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.“

— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910

Cats, Animals

„A house is not a home until it has a dog.“

— Gerald Durrell naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter 1925 - 1995

Home, Housing

„I’m a good person but a shitty writer. You’re a shitty person but a good writer. We’d make a good team. I don’t want to ask you any favors, but if you have time – and from what I saw, you have plenty – I was wondering if you could write a eulogy for Hazel. I’ve got notes and everything, but if you could just make it into a coherent whole or whatever? Or even just tell me what I should say differently. Here’s the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease. I want to leave a mark. But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you think, “They’ll remember me now,” but (a) they don’t remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion. (Okay, maybe I’m not such a shitty writer. But I can’t pull my ideas together, Van Houten. My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.) We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. I can’t stop pissing on fire hydrants. I know it’s silly and useless – epically useless in my current state – but I am an animal like any other. Hazel is different. She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. Hazel knows the truth: We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either. People will say it’s sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it’s not sad, Van Houten. It’s triumphant. It’s heroic. Isn’t that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm. The real heroes anyway aren’t the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn’t actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn’t get smallpox. After my PET scan lit up, I snuck into the ICU and saw her while she was unconscious. I just walked in behind a nurse with a badge and I got to sit next to her for like ten minutes before I got caught. I really thought she was going to die, too. It was brutal: the incessant mechanized haranguing of intensive care. She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was still her hand, still warm and the nails painted this almost black dark almost blue color, and I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love. I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar. A nurse guy came in and told me I had to leave, that visitors weren’t allowed, and I asked if she was doing okay, and the guy said, “She’s still taking on water.”“

— John Green, book The Fault in Our Stars

A desert blessing, an ocean curse. What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers."
Augustus "Gus" Waters, p. 310-313
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)

Love, Death, War, People

„I've been your slave
Ever since I've been your babe
But before I be your dog
I'll see you in your grave.“

— Billie Holiday American jazz singer and songwriter 1915 - 1959

Billie's Blues

„Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.“

— Sitting Bull Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man 1831 - 1890

GoodReads https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5712889.Sitting_Bull
Attributed quotes

Fight, Time, Evil

„People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.“

— Jim Butcher, book White Night

Source: White Night

Love, People

„Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible.“

— Green Day

World

„Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather.“

— Tamora Pierce, book Bloodhound

Source: Bloodhound

Love, Life, Fools, Heart

„It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.“

— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910

Anonymous American proverb; since 1998 this has often been attributed to Mark Twain on the internet, but no contemporary evidence of him ever using it has been located.
Variants:
It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that matters.
"Stub Ends of Thoughts" by Arthur G. Lewis, a collection of sayings, in Book of the Royal Blue Vol. 14, No. 7 (April 1911), cited as the earliest known occurrence in The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs, edited by Charles Clay Doyle, Wolfgang Mieder, and Fred R. Shapiro, p. 232
It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.
Anonymous quote in the evening edition of the East Oregonian (20 April 1911)
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, declaring his particular variant on the proverbial assertion in Remarks at Republican National Committee Breakfast (31 January 1958) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=11229
Misattributed

Fight, Courageous, Attitude

„A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.“

— Yasunari Kawabata Japanese author, Nobel Prize winner 1899 - 1972

Source: House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories

Night

„I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.“

— Muhammad Ali African American boxer, philanthropist and activist 1942 - 2016

Source: The Greatest My Own Story

Cats, Business

„Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.“

— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900

„You cannot "love" a dog out of her bad behavior, just as you can't "love" a criminal into stopping his crimes.“

— Cesar Millan Mexican - American dog trainer and television personality 1969

Source: Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems

Love, Behavior

„A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.“

— John Grogan American journalist 1958

Source: Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog

Education, Heart

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

— Winston S. Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874 - 1965

Christopher Soames, speech at the Reform Club (28 April 1981), reported in Martin S. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill. Volume Eight: Never Despair: 1945–1965. p. 304
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Variant: I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Context: [Christopher Soames, Churchill's future son-in-law, remembered] Churchill showing him around Chartwell Farm [around 1946]. When they came to the piggery Churchill scratched one of the pigs and said: I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Cats, Funny

„Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.“

— Olaf Stapledon, book Odd John

Source: Odd John

Food, Thinking

„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.“

— Jack London American author, journalist, and social activist 1876 - 1916

"Confession" in Complete Works of Jack London, Delphi Classics, 2013
Variant: Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

„You can say any fool thing to a dog and the dog will just give you this look that says, 'My GOSH, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!“

— Dave Barry American writer 1947

Fools

„one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap“

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, early leader in the civil rights movement 1862 - 1931

Fight

„they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.“

— George Orwell, book Animal Farm

Source: Animal Farm

Time

„No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.“

— Christopher Morley American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet 1890 - 1957

„You see, Doctor, God didn't kill that little girl. Fate didn't butcher her and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs. If God saw what any of us did that night he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew… God doesn't make the world this way. We do.“

— Alan Moore, book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

God, Fate, World, Way

„Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.“

— Milan Kundera, book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Death, People, Law, Animals

„Only in chaos are we conceivable.“

— Roberto Bolaño, book 2666

Source: 2666

„I well knew the rules to follow with our training Dogs: Speak when you're spoken to. Keep out of the way. Obey all orders. Get killed on your own time.“

— Tamora Pierce, book Terrier

Source: Terrier

Way, Time, Training

„Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone.
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.“

— W. H. Auden Anglo-American poet 1907 - 1973

Funeral Blues (1936)

Silence

„Whenever you wash dishes, cook, or clean, if you make no sound, this is smartness itself. A person who enters a house and makes a lot of noise is revealing a lack of spirituality; even cats and dogs do not make unnecessary sounds, and man as he naturally is does not make any either.“

— Michio Kushi Japanese educator 1926 - 2014

Source: Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom (1994, with Edward Esko), p. 4

Cats, Nature, Housing, Personality

„I must give you a piece of intelligence that you perhaps already know — namely, that the ungodly arch-villain Voltaire has died miserably like a dog — just like a brute. That is his reward!“

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Austrian Romantic composer 1756 - 1791

Letter to Leopold Mozart (3 July 1778), from The letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1769-1791, translated, from the collection of Ludwig Nohl, by Lady [Grace] Wallace (Oxford University Press, 1865, digitized 2006) vol. I, # 107 (p. 218) http://books.google.com/books?vid=0SGwLiCNxu7qZ5ch&id=KEgBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=%22The+letters+of+Wolfgang+Amadeus+Mozart,+1769-1791%22#PRA1-PA218,M1

Intelligence

„I discovered when we suffer, we suffer as equals. And in their capacity to suffer, a dog is a pig is a bear..... is a boy“

— Philip Wollen Australian philanthropist 1950

"Animals Should Be Off the Menu" (2012)

Boy, Suffering

„Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.“

— George Orwell English author and journalist 1903 - 1950

"As I Please," Tribune (7 July 1944)
As I Please (1943–1947)

Training

„From my reading of Gandhi I had learned how some people in India regard eating cow as unspeakably repulsive. I realized I felt the same way about cats and dogs: I could never eat them. Were cows so different from cats and dogs that there were two moral standards, one that applies to cows, another that applies to cats and dogs? Were pigs so different? Were any of the animals I ate so different?“

— Tom Regan, book Empty Cages

Source: Empty Cages (2004), Ch. 2

People, Way, Cats, Learning

„I love animals, but I hadn’t had a pet since I was a kid. I recently got a dog and he’s not only made me a happier girl—he’s made me much more sympathetic to animal rights. I look at my beautiful dog and think, “Of course I’d never eat him or skin him for his fur, so why would I be okay with eating a cow or wearing a cheetah?” It’s just not right. It’s a contradiction. … I don’t think you can force people to change their attitudes, but you can help to educate them and to lead by example. … There are way too many amazing faux fur options out there for people to still be wearing real fur. I want people to know that there are options; that killing a poor animal and wearing it isn’t cool. But respecting all life forms is cool. Very cool.“

— Eva Mendes American actress 1974

Love, Life, People, Education

„A dog barks and stands at bay if he sees any one assault his master. I should be indeed remiss, if, seeing the truth of God thus attacked, I should remain dumb, without giving one note of warning.“

— John Calvin French Protestant reformer 1509 - 1564

Letter 130 (to the Queen of Navarre), 28 April, 1545.

God, Truth

„[On why criminals rob nice-looking houses] You come up on a house where the grass is this tall, and there's a dog chained to the clothesline, and a motor swinging in the tree, buddy, that's a house where a gun lives! And you want to find out what kind it is, just crawl through the window after dark.“

— Jeff Foxworthy American stand-up comedian 1958

Totally Committed (1998)

Tree, Grass, Housing

„There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me being happy.“

— Jean Anouilh French playwright 1910 - 1987

Il y aura toujours un chien perdu quelque part qui m'empêchera d'être heureux.
La Sauvage ["The Restless Heart"] (1938), Act 3.

Happiness

„Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad.“

— W.C. Fields actor 1880 - 1946

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."
Misattributed
Variant: Anyone who hates babies and dogs can't be all bad.

Hate, Children

„I always pet a dog with my left hand, because if he bit me, I'd still have my right hand to paint with.“

— Juan Gris Spanish painter and sculptor 1887 - 1927

Attributed by Max Jacob (1876–1944) to Juan Gris, quoted in: Jeanine Warnod (1972). Washboat days. p. 204

Painting

„And if the big dog ain't me, then the house won't get guarded—period.“

— Shaquille O'Neal American basketball player 1972

[Wise, Mike, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/11/sports/pro-basketball-tension-between-o-neal-and-bryant-is-rising-every-day.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm, PRO BASKETBALL; Tension Between O'Neal and Bryant Is Rising Every Day, January 11, 2001, The News York Times]
O'Neal implying his level of defensive play would drop if he were not the team's featured option on offense.

Housing

„The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control. In the words of total need: "Wouldn't you?" Yes you would. You would lie, cheat, inform on your friends, steal, do anything to satisfy total need. Because you would be in a state of total sickness, total possession, and not in a position to act in any other way. Dope fiends are sick people who cannot act other than they do. A rabid dog cannot choose but bite.“

— William S. Burroughs, book Naked Lunch

Introduction
Naked Lunch (1959)

People, Lie, Way, Evil

„More often than not, the classes of objects encountered in the real physical world do not have precisely deﬁned criteria of membership. For example, the class of animals clearly includes dogs, horses, birds, etc. as its members, and clearly excludes such objects as rocks, ﬂuids, plants, etc. However, such objects as starfish, bacteria, etc. have an ambiguous status with respect to the class of animals. The same kind of ambiguity arises in the case of a number such as 10 in relation to the “class” of all real numbers which are much greater than 1.“

— Lotfi A. Zadeh Electrical engineer and computer scientist 1921 - 2017

Source: 1960s, Fuzzy sets (1965), p. 338

World, Bird, Animals, Horse

„Let's be perfectly clear, shall we. The fox is not a little orange puppy dog with doe eyes and a waggly tail. It's a disease-ridden wolf with the morals of a psychopath and the teeth of a great white shark.“

— Jeremy Clarkson English broadcaster, journalist and writer 1960

A Murderous Fox Has Made Me Shoot David Beckham, p. 161
The World According to Clarkson (2005)

Disease, Wolf

„When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I'd like to have a 3-headed-dog because then no one would argue with me.“

— Daniel Radcliffe English actor 1989

http://www.danradcliffe.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23&Itemid=28

School

„I will not change my opinion, dear people, it is 5 minutes before twelve. Not just here in Holland. but in the whole of Europe. And is that what you want? I take my stand for this country, that which has been build up in the last five or six centuries. Damn it, we have a fifth column… Okay, let me tell you now straight the way it is! A fifth column of people who want to destroy this country! I will not go for that, and I say, "you can stay here, but you must adapt." I must hear "Allah is great", that I am a "dirty pig"… you are a "Christian dog". That is what they say, and you think that is okay… And I have so far been very reserved. I have never repeated that… but you accept being walked over, and I will not let that happen anymore. And that's where I get all those seats from (in the polls). Because this country is fed up! … C'est ça! That is what I stand for. And if I must express that otherwise, well, fine… but it is about your children, your grandchildren. For what else is this about? Must I explain more here? I can not do it any other way, and will not do it any other way. Then I would rather be finished off. Okay, fine… but the problem sir, will remain. That will remain. People have had more than enough of it. Damn it, in my city, Moroccan boys, Turkish boys… who do not rob the Turks, the Moroccans, but rob you and me and little old ladies. And the police? What they do? Damn it… nothing. They tell you: "If you say that, you discriminate". And that is what I express from the Dutch people. And I stand for it, I stand for it. Is that not allowed? Okay, I respect that. C'est ça“

— Pim Fortuyn Dutch politician 1948 - 2002

That’s all
Nederland 2 documentary "The Night of Fortuyn" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgM9JozWOf0

Children, People, Way, Boy

„There was no choice. If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?“

— Oskar Schindler German industrialist and Holocaust rescuer 1908 - 1974

To Poldek Pfefferberg, in response to the question of why he risked so much, as quoted in "Schindler : Why did he do it?" (2010) by Louis Bülow.

Cars, Help

„In riding to the hounds, in falconry,
In love or war," as anyone will tell you,
"For one brief joy a hundred woes.“

— Francois Villon, book Le Testament

"De chiens, d'oyseaulx, d'armes, d'amous,"
Chascun le dit a la vollee,
"Pour une joye cent doulours."
Source: Le Grand Testament (The Great Testament) (1461), Line 622.

Love, War, Joy

„Oh, oh, dog biscuit, and when he is happy he doesn't get snappy“

— Dutch Schultz American mobster 1902 - 1935

From police transcripts of incoherent deathbed confession

Happiness

„Now this No Limit shit, No Limit nigga
Everbody wanna know how this shit happens, but we ain't playa hatin'
And what's goin' on, but ya know what?
It don't get no realer than this though dog.“

— Snoop Dogg American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor 1971

"Get Bout It & Rowdy", Da Game Is To Be Sold, Not To Be Told (1998).

„Sometimes in my very happiest moments, I feel like crying. My eyes grow dim, my heart seems to choke me. I would like to be sure, in such times of anguish, that everybody loves me; that there is nowhere in the world a sad dog behind a closed door, that no evil will ever come…“

— Colette 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi 1873 - 1954

Barks and Purrs
Context: Toby-Dog: It seems to me that of the two of us it's you they make the most of, and yet you do all the grumbling.
Kiki-The-Demure: A dog's logic, that! The more one gives the more I demand.
Toby-Dog: That's wrong. It's indiscreet.
Kiki-The-Demure: Not at all. I have a right to everything.
Toby-Dog: To everything? And I?
Kiki-The-Demure: I don't imagine you lack anything, do you?
Toby-Dog: Ah, I don't know. Sometimes in my very happiest moments, I feel like crying. My eyes grow dim, my heart seems to choke me. I would like to be sure, in such times of anguish, that everybody loves me; that there is nowhere in the world a sad dog behind a closed door, that no evil will ever come...
Kiki-The-Demure: And then what dreadful thing happens?
Toby-Dog: You know very well! Inevitably, at that moment She appears, carrying a bottle with horrible yellow stuff floating in it — Castor Oil!

Love, World, Sadness, Feeling

„Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.“

— Heraclitus pre-Socratic Greek philosopher -535

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Original: (el) κύνες γὰρ καὶ βαΰζουσινὃν, ἂν μὴ γινώσκωσι.

„I was ever charitable and good to the poor, and scorn to take the bread out of another man's mouth. On the other side, by our Lady, they shall play me no foul play. I am an old cur at a crust, and can sleep dog-sleep when I list.“

— Miguel de Cervantes Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright 1547 - 1616

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 33, as translated by Pierre Antoine Motteux in The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (1701)
Variant translations:
I'm kind-hearted by nature, and full of compassion for the poor; there's no stealing the loaf from him who kneads and bakes; and by my faith it won't do to throw false dice with me; I am an old dog, and I know all about 'tus, tus;' I can be wide-awake if need be, and I don't let clouds come before my eyes, for I know where the shoe pinches me; I say so, because with me the good will have support and protection, and the bad neither footing nor access. And it seems to me that, in governments, to make a beginning is everything; and maybe, after having been governor a fortnight, I'll take kindly to the work and know more about it than the field labour I have been brought up to.
Honesty's the best policy.
Context: I was ever charitable and good to the poor, and scorn to take the bread out of another man's mouth. On the other side, by our Lady, they shall play me no foul play. I am an old cur at a crust, and can sleep dog-sleep when I list. I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes. I know where the shoe wrings me. I will know who and who is together. Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.

Sleep

„In a world where social media is part of everyone’s life and your phone is glued to your hip like a dog chasing its own tail, we need to start celebrating our own bodies and the bodies of those around us more.“

— Matkai Burmaster

Source: Matkai.com - https://www.matkai.com/this-pride-lets-start-celebrating-the-bodies-that-go-uncelebrated/

World, Life, Parting

„The salary simply means becoming dependent on someone's pocket. Like a good dog who waits for his master to throw the bone at him, after having eaten all the meat.“

— Mwanandeke Kindembo 1996

Dependency, Waiting

„Dogs are God's way of
making up
for
your relatives.“

— Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Way, God

„If someone does not love dogs… don't trust them.“

— Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Love

„Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?'

No,' I said.

People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord Fauntleroys or cowboys, clowns, ballerinas. As if it's not enough just to be a dog or cat or turtle.“

— Jerry Spinelli, book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

People, Cats

„The whole horror of the situation is that he now has a human heart, not a dog's heart. And about the rottenest heart in all creation!“

— Mikhail Bulgakov, book Heart of a Dog

Source: Heart of a Dog

Heart

„Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.“

— Jeanette Winterson, book The Passion

Source: The Passion (1987)

Feeling, Lovers

„I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.“

— Cesar Millan Mexican - American dog trainer and television personality 1969

„A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.“

— Ogden Nash American poet 1902 - 1971

"A Dog's Best Friend Is His Illiteracy" in The Private Dining Room (1953)
Paraphrased variant: A door is that which a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Source: Private Dining-room and Other New Verses