Dog owners can understand how it feels to have a companion that fills our lives with endless joy and love and never lets us feel alone. No matter how hard of a day you had, coming home to the exciting wagging tails and the comfort of their presence, makes every day special and fun. These loyal friends are the most beautiful companions that always motivate us, lift our spirits and keep us on our toes. Therefore, in honor of these canine pals and the remarkable bonds we share, we've compiled a list of 55 uplifting sayings that sum up the essence of dog companionship.
Best Dog Quotes
The dog has been esteemed and loved by all the people on earth, and he has deserved this affection for he renders services that have made him man’s best friend.
Charles Bukowski
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
I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not better for it.
Abraham Lincoln
When an eighty-five-pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it’s hard to feel sad.
Kristan Higgins
Dogs have more love than integrity. They’ve been true to us, yes, but they haven’t been true to themselves.
Clarence Day
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks.
Roger A. Caras
A dog doesn’t care if you’re rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart, and he will give you his.
John Grogan
Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
Elizabeth Taylor
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
Josh Billings
A dog’s love is a poetic tapestry, each thread woven with the fibers of loyalty, resilience, and the timeless artistry that transforms our lives into a lyrical composition of joy and warmth.
Queen Floofington
Funny Dog Quotes
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
Sigmund Freud
The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
Samuel Butler
Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.
Franklin P. Jones
Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.
Dean Koontz
My fashion philosophy is, if you’re not covered in dog hair, your life is empty.
Elayne Boosler
Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Eppie Lederer
A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well, almost.
Charlotte Gray
Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
Marilyn Monroe
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Andy Rooney
It’s tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won’t drink from my glass.
Rodney Dangerfield
If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them.
Phil Pastoret
Cute Dog Quotes
The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable possession of mankind.
Theodorus Gaza
A dog is the only thing that can mend a crack in your broken heart.
Judy Desmond
A dog’s love is the sonnet of our existence, composed with verses of joy, choruses of loyalty, and the sweet refrain of paw prints etched on the pages of our hearts.
Sir Barkington Wordsworth III
Name one development in the history of humankind that has increased happiness more than the domestication of dogs.
Aaron Easterly
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
James Thurber
The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down.
Gordon Korman
Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them and filling an emptiness we didn’t ever know we had.
Thom Jones
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
Roger Caras
If a dog does not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Woodrow Wilson
Everything I know, I learned from dogs.
Nora Roberts
A well-trained dog will make no attempt to share your lunch. He will just make you feel so guilty that you cannot enjoy it.
Helen Thomson
I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive.
Gilda Radner
There is no faith which has never yet been broken except that of a truly faithful dog.
Konrad Lorenz
Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives.
Sue Murphy
Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dog.
Ernest Thompson Seton
I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.
Doris Day
Before you get a dog, you can’t quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can’t imagine living any other way.
Caroline Knapp
Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.
Caroline Knapp
The canine chronicles are an opus of love, a symphony where each paw step is a note, every tail wag a crescendo, and the harmonious ensemble creates a masterpiece that echoes in the corridors of our hearts.
Sir Cuddlepaws
I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon.
Oprah Winfrey
The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.
Daniel Pinkwater
The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.
M.K. Clinton
Ever consider what our dogs must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul, chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth!
Anne Tyler
Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned a dog.
Gene Hill
I’ve seen a long in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
John Steinbeck
Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.
Kinky Friedman
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.
Christopher Morley
After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.
Robert McCammon
Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.
John Grogan
What do dogs do on their day off? Can’t lie around – that’s their job!
George Carlin
My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.
Michael Sheen
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
Mark Twain
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die, I want to go where they went.
Will Rogers
