Quotes about dogs

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

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

„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

„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

„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.

„[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)

„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.

„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

„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

„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

„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

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

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

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

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

„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 ।

„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

„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

„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

„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)

„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

„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.
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