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Dogs Quotes

"Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them."

Stokely Carmichael, American Activist

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"If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!"

Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Statesman

"I also have two dogs, a Chihuahua and a Yorkshire terrier, so if they like him, that's a good sign."

Christina Milian, American Musician

"Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead."

Juan Williams, American Journalist

"I have four dogs, four horses, a cat, and a bunch of wild frogs."

Daryl Hannah, American Actress

Dogs, Frogs, Horses

"Feed the dogs. I hate to hear them barking like that."

Lillie Langtry, British Actress

"Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar."

Steve Allen, American Entertainer

"The interviews have been a little tough due to the fact that we're interviewing dogs. We see a lot of contestants licking themselves, but we're used to that from covering the Grammys."

Melissa Rivers, American Actress

"Dogs never bite me. Just humans."

Marilyn Monroe, American Actress

"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs."

Christopher Hampton, British Playwright

"I'm a grandmother with dogs and nice friends here in the Rocky mountains. Ever see the movie A River Runs Through It? That's where I live. It's beautiful, no two ways about it."

Margot Kidder, American Actress

Dogs, Friends, Mountains

"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Dogs, Heaven, Will

"Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way."

Quentin Tarantino, American Director

Dogs, Personality

"The king appeared... with his dogs and sycophants behind him."

Kathleen Winsor, American Author

"I started working at Hanna-Barbera in '92 on 2 Stupid Dogs."

Craig McCracken, American Artist

"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult."

Rita Rudner, American Comedian

Dogs, Religious, Wonder

"If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one."

Andy Rooney, American Journalist

Dogs, Fun, Talk

"Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

Dogs, Quiet, World, Wounds

"The only weights I lift are my dogs."

Olivia Newton-John, Australian Musician

"The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast."

Bob Hope, American Comedian

"My saddle horses are my friends. My dogs are my friends."

Wilford Brimley, American Actor

Dogs, Friends, Horses

"What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?"

Larry Bird, American Coach

Dogs, Will, World

"First, there was 2 Stupid Dogs. Then, Dexter's Laboratory. And now, Powerpuff Girls. There were a lot of little things in between, but those were the main ones."

Craig McCracken, American Artist

Dogs, First, Girls, Now

"When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms."

Frank James, American Celebrity

Dogs, Feet, Horses, Sound

"Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings."

Oliver Herford, American Author

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

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

"Investigators have discovered that dogs can laugh, which can't be too big of a surprise."

Tony Snow, American Journalist

"Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself."

Rachel Hunter, New Zealander Model

"These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north."

Clifford D. Simak, American Writer

"Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

"Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs."

Calista Flockhart, American Actress

"Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine."

Edward Thorndike, American Psychologist

"Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog."

Earl Derr Biggers, American Novelist

"You cannot teach old dogs new tricks."

Joseph Chamberlain, British Politician

"I don't have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don't do my own shopping; it's a security thing."

Enya, Irish Musician

Dogs, Pets, Security

"You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin."

Tim Roth, British Actor

Dogs, Fiction, Right

"I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots!"

Michael Landon, American Actor

"Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored."

John Berger, English Artist

"We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare."

Charles Dance, English Actor

Dogs, Shakespeare

"Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails."

Max Eastman, American Author

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Dogs, Man, Popularity

"I get in my golf cart with my dogs, I have five dogs."

Delta Burke, American Actress

"One of my dogs is in the movie Beethoven's 2nd."

Greg Louganis, American Athlete

"Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards."

Diogenes, Greek Philosopher

"We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person."

Pamela Stephenson, Australian Actress

"For instance, it was very rare for anyone there with dogs to allow them into the house."

Marie Windsor, American Actress

"I'm the guy to call. Look at the resume. I have kids of my own. I have dogs."

Jeff Daniels, American Actor

"Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House."

Calvin Coolidge, American President

Dogs, Man, Want

"My feet are dogs."

Rudolf Nureyev, Russian Dancer

"I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

Dogs, Respectability

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