Best Terriers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I have to say that it was a thrilling ride to be on 'Terriers.' It was this odd circumstance where it was really loved by the people it was loved by, but it didn't do well. In fairness to FX, they were just so generous in keeping it on the air the whole year.”

People Years Wells Whole Air Circumstances Odd Generous Fairness Thrilling Whole Year Terriers

Author:Donal Logue

“Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane.”

May Nature Animal Dog Upset Pet My Dog Unnoticed Canine Dog Lover Poodles Puppy Dog Pet Dog Great Dog Poodle Dogs Cute Dog Dogs And Life Funny Puppy Terriers Labrador Dogs

Author:Smiley Blanton

“Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.”

Rooms Honest Truth Is Drawing Rough Terriers

Book:Chandos: A Novel

Source: Chandos: A Novel

“I have several Scottish Terriers. I find them to be the most wonderful dogs.”

Wonderful Dog Rama Scottish Terriers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat. Process and Reality”

Real Reality Process Class Notion Appeals Discussion Transition Imaginary Entity Rats Propositions Nexus Terriers

Book:Process and Reality

Source: Process and Reality

“No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich.”

“A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.”

Running Violent Running Away Nonviolence Rabbits Bulls Non Violent Terriers

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“At home in Victoria, we have three dogs, Tosh and Lucy, they're half Blue Heelers, and then there's Torrin a little Maltese terrier. She gets more attention in the house than anyone else! Yes, I miss them a lot.”

Littles Home Three House Attention Half Dog Missing Blue Victoria Lucy Terriers Three Dog

Author:Chris Hemsworth

“In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.”

Source: Red Wolves and Black Bears

“He's like a terrier, Scholes, he won't let go - even the postman would be afraid of him.”

Would Be Letting Go Scholes Postman Terriers

Author:Jimmy Magee

“He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.”

“I like extremely effeminate dogs like terriers or schnauzers. I make an exception for giant schnauzers and big poodles. Basically, I like dogs which can be dyed day-glo colours.”

Bigs Dog Giants Colour Exception Poodles Terriers Schnauzers

Author:Jonathan Meades

“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.”

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

“The number one mistake is giving pets table scraps. I made the mistake thinking I was showing my dog love by giving her food and treats. You see a tiny 4 oz. piece of cheese, but for a Boston Terrier like mine, that's like one and a half hamburgers. That's unhealthy.”

Thinking Giving Made Numbers Mistake Half Pieces Dog Mines Treats Tables Tiny Pet Cheese Boston My Dog Unhealthy Scrap Hamburgers Dog Love One Mistake Terriers

Author:Alison Sweeney

“I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out cardboard coffins beneath the oak tree in our backyard. Also where, if some future archaeologist goes digging, they'll find the remains of a plush toy: a gray terrier named Toto I buried after the accident.”

“People are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be the same breed. George Bush and an Australian Aborigine have fewer differences than a Lhasa apso and a toy fox terrier. A Japanese raised in Riyadh would be an Arab. A Zulu raised in New Rochelle would be an orthodontist. People are all the same, though their circumstances differ terribly.”

People Ifs Would Be Differences Race Groups Dog Circumstances Raised Fewer Toys Foxes Australian Ethnic Groups Terriers Riyadh

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Picture a tall, dark figure, surrounded by cornfields... NO, YOU CAN'T RIDE A CAT. WHO EVER HEARD OF THE DEATH OF RATS RIDING A CAT? THE DEATH OF RATS WOULD RIDE SOME KIND OF DOG. Picture more fields, a great horizon-spanning network of fields, rolling in gentle waves... DON'T ASK ME I DON'T KNOW. SOME KIND OF TERRIER, MAYBE. ...fields of corn, alive, whispering in the breeze... RIGHT, AND THE DEATH OF FLEAS CAN RIDE IT TOO. THAT WAY YOU KILL TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE. ...awaiting the clockwork of the seasons. METAPHORICALLY.”

Knows Way Kind Two Asks Dark Alive Heard Dog Figures Fields Bird Stones Cat Seasons Wave Ask Me Gentle Tall Horizon Riding Rolling Rats Breeze Corn Whispering Fleas Clockwork Terriers Two Birds

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and policemen to chase anything that runs away.”

Running Feet Involved Instinct Ancient Running Away Policemen Terriers

Book:Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)

Source: Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)

“Mosca and Saracen shared, if not a friendship, at least the solidarity of the generally despised. Mosca assumed that Saracen had his reasons for his persecution of terriers and his possessive love of the malthouse roof. In turn, when Mosca had interrupted Saracen’s self-important nightly patrol and scooped him up, Saracen had assumed that she too had her reasons.”

Ifs Important Self Reason Turns Roof Solidarity Persecution Despised Interrupted Possessive Possessive Love Terriers

Book:Fly By Night

Source: Fly By Night

“I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.”

Poetry Rats Terriers

Book:Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

“Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.”

Source: Enjoyment of Laughter

“Once you've got a bull terrier, you never want another dog. I've got six bull terriers, a rottweiler and a bulldog.”

Want Dog Football Six Bulls Terriers Bulldogs Rottweilers

Author:Julian Dicks

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

Ifs Two Dog Two Dogs Yorkshire Chihuahua Terriers

Author:Christina Milian

“I have a new little stray dog that I've had for about a month now. His name is Mikey Mohawk - he's this little terrier with a natural Mohawk. My friend found him hit by a car on Pico Boulevard.”

Littles Found Names Natural Dog Car Months My Friends Boulevard Terriers Stray Dogs Mohawks Mikey

Author:Krysten Ritter

“All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a cow a good fright, entangle a Yorkshire terrier for life, and is nasty stuff made by greedy men.”

Knows Men Needs Giving Made Humor Funny Stuff Tears Cows Nasty Greedy Wire Fright Trousers Arses Barbed Wire Yorkshire Terriers

Author:Billy Connolly

“Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.”

Funny Born Sin Four Dog Originals Foxes Original Sin Funny Dog Terriers

Book:Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

Source: Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

“A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.”

“It sometimes takes days, even weeks, before a dog's nerves tire. In the case of terriers it can run into months.”

Sometimes Running Funny Cases Week Dog Months Nerves Tire Terriers

Author:E. B. White

“I like Yorkshire terriers. They're good to wash your car with. They fit right in the bucket.”

Car Fit Buckets Yorkshire Terriers

Author:Billiam Coronel

“Fatty, a bearded collie-terrier mix, is the kindest, cuddliest dog. And Oliver, a white golden retriever, even looks like me! My dogs have taught me to be more loving, more nurturing, and happier.”

Looks White Dog Taught Like Me Golden Pet My Dog Nurturing Retrievers Fatty Terriers Golden Retrievers Collies

Author:Nicollette Sheridan

“Many people have heard the remarkable example of devotion involving a Skye terrier dog who worked for a Scottish shepherd named Old Jock. In 1858, the day after Jock was buried (with almost nobody present to mourn him except his shaggy dog) in the churchyard at Greyfriars Abbey in Edinburgh, Bobby was found sleeping on his master's grave, where he continued to sleep every night for fourteen years.”

Source: Dogs Never Lie about Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs

“(Scottish Terriers) have all the compactness of a small dog and all the valor of a big one. And they are so exceedingly sturdy that it is proverbial that the only thing fatal to them is being run over by an automobile - in which case the car itself knows it has been in a fight.”

Knows Has Beens Bigs Running Fighting Fun Cases Dog Car Automobile Scottish Valor Sturdy Proverbial Terriers Small Dogs

Author:Dorothy Parker

“We only have one dog now. Calamity Jane had to be put down. She was very old, and her medicine no longer controlled her seizures. Dilly is five now, I think. He's a neutered American Pit Bull Terrier, very gentle, about the color of buckskin.”

Thinking Five Dog Color Medicine Gentle Controlled Jane Bulls Pits Calamity Seizures Terriers Pit Bull

Author:Gene Wolfe

“Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.”

Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

“If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow.”

Ifs Politics Grows Economy Torn Bushism Terriers

Book:The George W. Bush Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches and Commentary

Source: The George W. Bush Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches and Commentary

“At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.”

Ifs Stills Home Lines Fine Genius Not Sure Thick Tibetan Fine Lines Terriers

Author:Hugh Bonneville

“A Jack Russell terrier? My god. He'll burn you up. They never stop. A German shepherd, you can only go so many miles.”

Miles Shepherds Terriers German Shepherds

Author:George Foreman

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