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The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music does. It depends on your appetite for sound. Just as a crust is sweeter to a healthy appetite than confectionery to a pampered or diseased one.

The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.

The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves; the man is lost.

The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses.

The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.

The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.

The dachshund is a perfectly engineered dog. It is precisely long enough for a single standard stroke of the back, but you aren't paying for any superfluous leg.

The difference between "trained OK" and "trained perfectly" doesn't really matter all that much to me. I once did a film with Lassie. When that dog got excited he jumped all over Rudd Weatherwax [Lassie's trainer]. Now that's the smartest dog in the world. If the world's best-trained dog can jump around to show he's happy then my dogs should be allowed to do the same.

The dog becomes the repository of those model human properties that we have cynically ceased to find among humans. Where today can we find the full panoply of William Bennett's Book of Virtues-from Courage and Responsibility to Loyalty and Family Values-but in Lassie and Beethoven and Millie and Checkers and Spot?

The dog has an enviable mind; it remembers the nice things in life and quickly blots out the nasty.

The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals.

The dog can only become what's in your bubble. The dog is imitating the energy that is in your bubble. You are the source, the feast of energy. If you feel anxious, the dog becomes anxious with you. If you become nervous, the dog wakes up nervous with you.

The dog has behaved himself quite well all day, and the show is doing fantastically well in the ratings... I have no reason to be sad!

The dog has no ambition, no self-interest, no desire for vengeance, no fear other than that of displeasing.

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.

The dog is dressed just like me at the climax of my act.

The dog is man's best friend. He has a tail on one end. Up in front he has teeth. And four legs underneath.

The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman.

The dog lives here, Pete. You're just visiting.

The dog actors and the relationship they have with their trainers is one of the most beautiful things I've ever watched happen in front of me.

The dog approached again, cautiously. I found the bologna sandwich, ripped off a chunk, wiped the cheap watery mustard off, then placed it on the sidewalk. The dog walked up to the bit of sandwich, put his nose to it, sniffed, then turned and walked off. This time he didn't look back. He accelerated down the street. No wonder I had been depressed all my life. I wasn't getting proper nourishment.

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery

The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell. But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system. An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.

The dog is a reflection of your energy, of your behavior. You have to ask, 'What am I doing?' That's the right question to ask.

The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.

The dog ran into the kitchen, stuck his nose in Grandma's crotch, and snuffled. Dang," Grandma said. "Guess my new perfume really works. I'm gonna have to try it out at the seniors meeting.

The dogs, and home, privacy is my constant.

The dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.

The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale. [The dog that licks ashes trust not with meal.]

The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.

The dog was cold and in pain. But being only a dog it did not occur to him to trot off home to the comfort of the library fire and leave his master to fend for himself.

The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady's pet, is only a degenerate wolf.

The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.

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.

The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built.

The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too.

The dog is in Portugal and the city of London is safe.

The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

The dog is still in the natural state. And you can easily see that, because you have problems and your dog doesn't. And while your happy moments may be rare, your dog celebrates life continuously.

The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on

The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.

The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak.

The dog writhing in the gutter, its back broken by a passing car, knows what it is to be alive. So too with the aged elk of the far north woods, slowly dying in the bitter cold of winter. The asphalt upon which the dog lies knows no pain. The snow upon which the elk has collapsed knows not the cold. But living beings do.

The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals

The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.

The dog is more social. I am not saying that cats are totally unsocial but dogs are more social.

The dog is the god of frolic.