
„People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for some underdog anyway!“
— Matka Tereza Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin 1910 - 1997
A collection of quotes on the topic of horse, cats, animals, 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.
„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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— 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
„The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.“
— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963
„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
„The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.“
— Heinrich Heine German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic 1797 - 1856
— 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.
„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
„The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.“
— Andy Rooney writer, humorist, television personality 1919 - 2011
„A house is not a home until it has a dog.“
— Gerald Durrell naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter 1925 - 1995
— 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)
— Sitting Bull Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man 1831 - 1890
GoodReads https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5712889.Sitting_Bull
Attributed quotes
„People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.“
— Jim Butcher, book White Night
Source: White Night
„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
— Yasunari Kawabata Japanese author, Nobel Prize winner 1899 - 1972
Source: House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
— Muhammad Ali African American boxer, philanthropist and activist 1942 - 2016
Source: The Greatest My Own Story
„Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900
— 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
— John Grogan American journalist 1958
Source: Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
„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.
— 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.
„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
„No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.“
— Christopher Morley American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet 1890 - 1957
— 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
— 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
— George Orwell English author and journalist 1903 - 1950
"As I Please," Tribune (7 July 1944)
As I Please (1943–1947)
— John Calvin French Protestant reformer 1509 - 1564
Letter 130 (to the Queen of Navarre), 28 April, 1545.
„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.
„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.
— 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
„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.
— Lotfi A. Zadeh Electrical engineer and computer scientist 1921 - 2017
Source: 1960s, Fuzzy sets (1965), p. 338
— 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)
— Daniel Radcliffe English actor 1989
http://www.danradcliffe.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23&Itemid=28
— Pim Fortuyn Dutch politician 1948 - 2002
That’s all
Nederland 2 documentary "The Night of Fortuyn" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgM9JozWOf0
„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.
— 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.
„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
— 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).
— 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!
„Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.“
— Heraclitus pre-Socratic Greek philosopher -535
Fragment 97
Numbered fragments
Original: (el) κύνες γὰρ καὶ βαΰζουσινὃν, ἂν μὴ γινώσκωσι.
— 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.
Source: Matkai.com - https://www.matkai.com/this-pride-lets-start-celebrating-the-bodies-that-go-uncelebrated/
„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
„It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.“
— Jim Harrison American novelist, poet, essayist 1937 - 2016
Source: The Road Home
„There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner.“
— John Grogan American journalist 1958
Source: Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
„Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers.“
— Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Gunmetal Magic
„Whiskers of the cat,
Webbed toes on my swimming dog;
God is in the details.“
— Dean Koontz American author 1945
Source: The Book Of Counted Sorrows
„When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.“
— Deb Caletti American writer 1963
Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming
„Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.“
— Stephen King, book The Green Mile
Source: The Green Mile
— Adam Smith Scottish moral philosopher and political economist 1723 - 1790
Source: (1776), Book I, Chapter II, p. 14.
Source: The Wealth of Nations
— E. Lockhart American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily Jenkins 1967
Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver
„He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.“
— Aleister Crowley, book The Book of the Law
Source: The Book of the Law