Quotes about Dog
What do you wish to draw my attention to? 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
A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one?
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Because I have a dog, it's easier to work at home: I sit in a horrible weird 'Mastermind'-style chair and bask in my own mediocrity. Being single, I've no family life to distract me at the end of the day. Apart from taking the dog for a walk, I have no other responsibilities.
— Miranda Hart
in those days, the Corrected Hydrographic Sailing Directions for the Mediterranean, say, or the tables in Brown's Nautical Almanac. Under the charm of these rich I was as trusting and as stupid as a bird dog who wants to go out with any man with a gun, or a trained pig
— Ernest Hemingway
Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
— Ambrose of Milan
She looked at me and laughed pointlessly. Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy, and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?
— Anonymous
Home is - or should be - a place for companionship, for rearing children and having friends and family over for meals while the dog begs for scraps under the table.
— Eric Metaxas
What agreement is there between the hyena and the dog? and what peace between the rich and the poor?BibleEcclus,xiii. 18.2.
— Samuel Johnson
Praying without fervency is like hunting with a dead dog.
— Charles Spurgeon
In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd's dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd.
— Henry David Thoreau
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
— David Starr Jordan