Best Old Dog Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”

“Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.”

“Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.”

Way Years Long Middle Dog Months Cold Eating Fellows Thirty Crow Old Dog Quails

Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

“Somewhere in [China's] soul lurks the cunning of an old dog, and it is a cunning that is strangely impressive. What a strange old soul! What a great old soul!”

Soul Dog Strange China Cunning Impressive Old Dog Old Soul

Book:The Little Critic: Essays, Satire and Sketches on China (second Series: 1933-1935)

Source: The Little Critic: Essays, Satire and Sketches on China (second Series: 1933-1935)

“No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it's never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.”

Way Matter Decision Teach Dog Late Tricks Right Thing Too Late Screws Screw Ups Never Too Late Old Dog Wrong Decision

Author:Will Ferrell

“An old dog barks not in vain.”

Dog Vain Bark Old Dog

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

“I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead.”

Dog Dear Misfortunes Old Dog

Book:Letters of Mary Russell Mitford: 2d Ser

Source: Letters of Mary Russell Mitford: 2d Ser

“If the old dog barke he gives counsell. [If the old dog barks, he gives counsel.]”

Ifs Giving Dog Bark Old Dog

Author:George Herbert

“When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas which belong to the past, I feel how great the need is still of a real interest in the religion which builds up character, teaches brotherly love, and opens up to the seeker such a world of usefulness and the beauty of holiness.”

“I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.”

World Fun Dog Fool Tricks Combs Old Dog

Book:Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997

Source: Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997

“A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way.”

“For me, the hardest part is taking lessons, and it's hard teaching an old dog new tricks, so part of my re-teaching myself is opening my mind too. I just want to get better and I think there's nothing wrong with wanting to get better.”

Thinking Want Mind Hard Teaching Dog Lessons Tricks Hardest Opening Get Better Old Dog

Author:Eric Hernandez

“The way an old dog finds his way back over miles and miles to his home when somebody trues to shove him off on a farm someplace, that is how I find my way back to the library. It's my place, even more than my place is.”

Way Book Home Dog Library Miles My Way Farms Old Dog

Author:Chris Lynch

“You can teach an old dog new tricksif the old dog wants to learn.”

Want Teach Dog Old Dog

Author:Tip O'Neill

“I have my own method [of acting]. I come from, I've interrogated people; I come from an undercover background, so it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks.”

People Hard My Own Acting Teach Dog Method Tricks Backgrounds Old Dog Undercover

Author:Mekhi Phifer

“...you will do more harm than good by attempting to supplant old dogmas and customs with new dogmas. It will be the same in the end except that the old is less militant, less dangerous than a new order imposed by enthusiasts.”

Ends Order Dangerous Harm Customs Dogma Attempting Militant Old Dog

Author:Gore Vidal

“The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it.”

Steps Dog Ego Tired Porch Old Dog

Author:Carlos Castaneda

“I love it, to have the same crew. I'm not married. I don't have children. My 17-year-old dog died. I'm kind of on my own. So I really like having the same camera guy for four years. I love looking around and seeing the hair and makeup people who have been there from the beginning.”

People Years Kind Children Has Beens Guy My Own Four Seeing Dog Hair Married Died Cameras Makeup Four Years Crew Old Dog Hair And Makeup Dog Died

Author:Julianne Moore

“I'm trying to accept the idea that there's a different definition of what matters now. The rating for James Corden at 12:30 at night doesn't matter as much as the number of hits he gets on YouTube when he goes driving around with Adele. There are old dogs out there doing new tricks, and I got to recognize them.”

Trying Different Night Accepting Dog Driving Old Dog

Author:David Bianculli

“With the "old dog" stuff, maybe the term "old" is in there, but I'm 26. I'm not that old. It's mostly like, "Ah, you dirty old dog!" I'm saying it more like that. I'm still ripping. I'm ready to rip. I'll make a bunch more records and have a nice time. We'll see what happens.”

Term Nice Dog Dirty Rip Old Dog

Author:Mac DeMarco

“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 - it was peace.”

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”

Source: The Road: Classic American Literature

“Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.”

Source: Dave Barry Talks Back

“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”

“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.”

“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.”

Source: Chips Off the Old Benchley

“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.”

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.”

“A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.”

Play Dog Associates Puppy Puppy Dog Old Dog Puppies And Dogs Cute Puppy Pups

Author:Josh Billings

“I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.”

Source: The Portable Steinbeck

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

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

“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.”

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”

“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.”

Source: False Memory

“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”

“Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.”

Source: A Celebration of Dogs

“Who's this—alone with stone and sky? It's only my old dog and I— It's only him; it's only me; Alone with stone and grass and tree. What share we most—we two together? Smells, and awareness of the weather. What is it makes us more than dust? My trust in him; in me his trust.”

Two Together Tree Sky Share Awareness Dog Stones Smell Weather Dust Grass Me Alone Old Dog

Book:Sequences

Source: Sequences

“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.”

Source: The Diary of Sigmund Freud 1929-1939: A Record of the Final Decade

“Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog.”

“You can say any fool thing to a dog and the dog will just give you this look that says, 'My GOSH, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!”

Giving Looks Dog Fool Intelligence My Dog Canine Dog Lover Pet Dog Old Dog Great Dog Puppies And Dogs

Author:Dave Barry

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

Source: It's Always Something

“She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister Margaret's. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked across the porch. There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air. (last lines)”

Lasts Father Voice Lines Heard Air Tree Dog Filled Distance Terror Instant Officers Bees Spurs Porch Odor Chained Old Dog Cavalry

Book:The Awakening & Other Short Stories

Source: The Awakening & Other Short Stories

“And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house, is sold and lost, and the books I gathered there lost, or sold- but more books bought, and in another place, board by board and stone by stone, like a house, a true life built, and all because I was steadfast about one or two things: loving foxes, and poems, the blank piece of paper, and my own energy- and mostly the shimmering shoulders of the world that shrug carelessly over the fate of any individual that they may, the better, keep the Niles and Amazons flowing.”

World Firsts May Two Book House Individual Energy Lost Parent My Own Pieces Fate Dog Paper Built Stones Shoulders Boards Two Things Blank Foxes Steadfast True Life Old Dog Old Houses

Book:Upstream: Selected Essays

Source: Upstream: Selected Essays

“(He) had not realized how much he needed this sweet, friendly sound. How much he needed someone to settle in next to him. He didn't know that he needed to not be so solitary until at last he wasn't. So many needs in one old dog.”

Knows Needs Lasts Next Sound Dog Sweet Needed Settling Friendly Solitary Old Dog Needed Someone

Book:The Underneath

Source: The Underneath

“Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.”

Might Left Dog Bites Tease Old Dog

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.”

People Funny Animal Family Saws Dog Dangerous Sad Reflection Happy Pet Family Life Reflecting Gloomy Old Dog Puppies And Dogs Snarling Sad Dog Family Pets

Book:The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes

“I like dogs Big dogs Little dogs Fat dogs Doggy dogs Old dogs Puppy dogs I like dogs A dog that is barking over the hill A dog that is dreaming very still A dog that is running wherever he will I like dogs.”

Littles Stills Dream Bigs Running Dog Fats Hills Puppy Puppy Dog Old Dog Dog Love Over The Hill

Author:Margaret Wise Brown

“I haven't fought with anyone else in over two thousand years. (Kyrian) Well, you're never too old to learn. (Amanda) You can't teach an old dog new tricks. (Kyrian) There's no time like the present. (Amanda) Time is of the essence. (Kyrian) God helps those who help themselves. (Amanda) You're not going to let me win this, are you? (Kyrian)”

Years Wells Two Helping Winning Teach Dog Havens Thousand Essence Let Me Tricks Thousand Years God Help Old Dog Amanda God Helps Those Who Help Themselves

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

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