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Quotables"They [dogs]
never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up
an appearance of being interested in the conversation."
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Quotables"They [dogs]
never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up
an appearance of being interested in the conversation."
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time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose
at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog." -- Mark Twain, speech, 11/23/1900. "Diplomacy
is the art of saying 'Nice doggie!'... till you can find a rock." "I care not for a man's religion whose dog and
cat are not the better for it." "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I
die I want to go where they "If it were a dog, it would have bitten you
already." "If you pick up a starving dog and make him
prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a
man." "Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit,
you would stay out and your dog would go in." "Every time you stop a school, you will have
to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog
on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog." "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice
doggie!'... till you can find a rock." "I care not for a man's religion whose dog and
cat are not the better for it." "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I
die I want to go where they went." "Life is like a dog sled team. If you ain't
the lead dog, the scenery never changes." "You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell
you, they will be there long before any of us." "Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent
job." "The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle
with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog
be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's
alien." "Politics are not my concern... they impressed
me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies." "If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you
will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are,
shared by his dog." "No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As
long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he
has." "America is a large friendly dog in a small
room. Every time it wags it's tail it knocks over a chair." "The old saw about old dogs and new tricks
only applies to certain people." "A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable
judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a
general way, prefer a woman to a man." "In a dog-eat-dog world, it is the dogmatic
domain of dog lovers to offer dogdom a dog's chance to rise above the dog days for a
doggone good time." "I wonder if other dogs think poodles are
members of a weird religious cult." "Show a dog a finger, and he wants the whole
hand." "A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no
greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such." "Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are
quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger." "Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a
good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I
might have a little fun!" "In the world which we know, among the
different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species,
there exists not one, "Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog
to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and
incapable "The dog is man's best friend. "The nose of the Bulldog has been slanted
backwards so that he can "If you can't decide between a Shepherd, a
Setter or a Poodle, get them all "Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads
that have been sat on." "I think we are drawn to dogs because they are
the uninhibited creatures "Even the tiniest Poodle or Chihuahua is still
a wolf at heart." "It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with
badly-fitting panty hose all over." "If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the
fun out of owning one." "They [dogs] never talk about themselves but
listen to you while you talk "When a dog wags her tail and barks at the
same time, how do you know "Newfoundland dogs are good to save children
from drowning, but you "Things that upset a terrier may pass
virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane." "I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly
vanishing look of amazed "What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I
have sometimes tried to imagine by "You may have a dog that won't sit up, roll
over or even cook breakfast, "My husband and I are either going to buy a
dog or have a child. We can't "To err is human, to forgive, canine." "What counts is not necessarily the size of
the dog in the fight; it's the size "If a picture wasn't going very well I'd put a
puppy dog in it, always a "I took my dog for a walk... all the way from
New York to Florida... I said to "Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs
like humans or they will "Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it
won't buy the wag of his tail." "Every dog must have his day." "I spilled spot remover on my dog. He's gone
now." "By what right has the dog come to be regarded
as a "noble" animal? The "Did you ever walk into a room and forget why
you walked in? I think that is "I named my dog 'Stay'... so I can say 'Come
here, Stay. Come here, "Dogs feel very strongly that they should
always go with you in the car, in "The dog was created specially for children.
He is the god of frolic." "Asking a working writer what he thinks about
critics is like asking a "When a dog runs at you, whistle for
him." "Houses are for private living, for friends,
and for dogs. " "Giving a man space is like giving a dog a
computer; the chances are he will not use it wisely." "Those who sleep with dogs will rise with
fleas." "..for a professor must have a theory, as a
dog must have fleas."
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