Quotations About / On: DOG

  • 1.
    A reasonable amount o' fleas is good fer a dog—keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe.
    (Edward Noyes Westcott (1847-1898), U.S. author. David Harum, ch. 32 (1898).)
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  • 2.
    It's dogged as does it.
    (Anthony Trollope (1815-1882), British novelist. Giles Hoggett, in The Last Chronicle of Barset, vol. 2, ch. lxi, London, Smith, Elder (1867).)
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    Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
    (Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).)
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  • 4.
    Necessity has the face of a dog.
    (Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928), Colombian author. Mina, in In Evil Hour (1968, trans. 1979).)
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    You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, "What's in it for me?"
    (Lewis Grizzard (1946-1994), U.S. journalist, humorist. "Pet Peeves," You Can't Put No Boogie Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll, Random House (1991).)
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    Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.
    (Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. Poems (1846).)
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  • 7.
    Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish. Dogs spend their time thinking about doing good deeds for their masters, or sleeping.
    (James Gorman (b. 1949). "The Sociobiology of Humor in Cats and Dogs," The Man With No Endorphins and Other Reflections on Science, Random House (1989).)
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  • 8.
    All you've got is the word of a fool dog. It's been my experience that a bloodhound is the foolishest dog that is. I don't remember of anybody ever keeping a bloodhound for a yard dog. They're such dad blasted fools.
    (Laurence Stallings (1894-1968), U.S. screenwriter, and John Ford. Judge William Pitman Priest (Charles Winniger), The Sun Shines Bright, commenting on the stupidity of bloodhounds, after one corners a young black boy, providing the only evidence that links him to the rape of a white girl (1953). Based on stories "The Sun Shines Bright," "The Mob from Massac," "The Lord Provides" by Irwin S. Cobb.)
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  • 9.
    Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
    (Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), U.S. suffragist. As quoted in The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, ch. 44, by Ida Husted Harper (1898). In a November 16, 1895, speech in Cleveland to the national convention of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, which strongly supported woman suffrage. Anthony considered it very difficult—perhaps futile—for that or any women's organization to effect changes in the law.)
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  • 10.
    We have to have wars now and then just to prove we're top dog.
    (Reginald Berkeley (1890-1935), British screenwriter, and Sonya Levien (1888-1960), U.S. screenwriter. Bridges (Herbert Mundin), Cavalcade, speaking of England, at the time of the Boer War (1933).)
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