Quotes About Our Love of Dogs

If I could be half the person my dog is, I’d be twice the human I am.

Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won’t be too bad.

Robert Wagner

Life without a dog is like an unsharpened pencil. It has no point. 

Unknown

You may not agree, you may not care, but…of all the sights I love in this world — and there are plenty — very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes.

Mary Oliver

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive.⁠

 Gilda Radner⁠

It’s just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn’t it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.

John Grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Light 

A dog doesn’t care if you’re rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him (or her) your heart and he will give you his.

John Grogan 

My sunshine doesn’t come from the skies, it comes from the love that’s in my dogs eyes

Unknown

Dog: A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world’s worship.

Ambrose Bierce

Everyone thinks they have the best dog. And none of them are wrong.

W.R. Purche