“The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog.”
Carrie Underwood (1983) American country music singer
From The More Boys I Meet from the album, Carnival Ride (2007). [Misattributed: performer not credited as writer.]
I Love My Dog (1966), his first single, later included on Matthew and Son (1967)
Song lyrics
“The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog.”
Carrie Underwood (1983) American country music singer
From The More Boys I Meet from the album, Carnival Ride (2007). [Misattributed: performer not credited as writer.]
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Who loves me, loves my dog.”
Qui me amat, amat et canem meam.
Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) French abbot, theologian
In Festo Sancti Michaelis, Sermo 1, sect. 3; translation from Richard Chevenix Trench, Archbishop of Dublin On the Lessons in Proverbs ([1853] 1856) p. 148
Bernard quotes this as being a proverb in common use.
T-Pain (1984) American rapper and record producer from Florida
Interview with PETA; as quoted in "T-Pain Teams Up With PETA To Remind Everyone To Treat Their Pets Like Family" https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/t-pain-teams-up-with-peta-to-remind-everyone-to-treat-their-pets-like-family-news.46218.html, HotNewHipHop.com (21 March 2018).
“What man love me, love my dog.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part II, chapter 9
Recorded in the 11th century by Bernard of Clairvaux in one of his sermons as a common proverb.
Proverbs (1546)
Fiona Apple (1977) singer-songwriter, musician
Parting Gift
Song lyrics, Extraordinary Machine (2005)
“I am not a dog lover. A dog lover to me means a dog that is in love with another dog.”
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
"I Like Dogs", For Men (April 1939); reprinted in People Have More Fun Than Anybody (1994); slightly paraphrased in "And So to Medve", Thurber's Dogs (1955)
From other writings
Buddy Holly (1936–1959) American singer-songwriter
Not Fade Away, written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty
Song lyrics, The "Chirping" Crickets (1957)
Ingrid Newkirk (1949) British-American activist
Satya, January, 2001 http://www.satyamag.com/jan01/newkirk.html. <br class="br">On pets