Dog Quotes for You to Enjoy

These 26 dog quotes are by authors with surnames starting with the letter "A."

In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.

Edward Abbey

It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.

Edward Abbey

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

Edward Abbey

Dogs love company. They place it first in their short list of needs.

J.R. Ackerley

Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth.

Alvin Adams

When he came up two days short, he didn't get a dog. That was harsh. It was wise, but harsh.

Chris Affleck

On how she dealt with her son Ben Affleck wanting a dog as a boy. (She made him walk an imaginary dog for seven days.)

When a dog wants to hang out the "Do Not Disturb" sign, as all of us do now and then, he is regarded as a traitor to his species.

Ramona C. Albert

Barking dogs don't bite, but they themselves don't know it.

Sholom Aleichem

She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.

Lloyd Alexander

Do not disturb the sleeping dog.

Alessandro Allegri

Her eyes met mine as she walked down the corridor peering apprehensively into the kennels. I felt her need instantly and knew I had to help her. 

I wagged my tail, not too exuberantly, so she wouldn't be afraid. As she stopped at my kennel I blocked her view from a little accident I had in the back of my cage. I didn't want her to know that I hadn't been walked today. Sometimes the overworked shelter keepers get too busy and I didn't want her to think poorly of them. 

As she read my kennel card I hoped that she wouldn't feel sad about my past. I only have the future to look forward to and want to make a difference in someone's life. 

She got down on her knees and made little kissy sounds at me. I shoved my shoulder and side of my head up against the bars to comfort her. Gentle fingertips caressed my neck; she was desperate for companionship. A tear fell down her cheek and I raised my paw to assure her that all would be well. 

Soon my kennel door opened and her smile was so bright that I instantly jumped into her arms. 

I would promise to keep her safe.
I would promise to always be by her side.
I would promise to do everything I could to see that radiant smile and sparkle in her eyes. 

I was so fortunate that she came down my corridor. So many more are out there who haven't walked the corridors. So many more to be saved. At least I could save one. 

I rescued a human today.

Janine Allen

Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.

Steve Allen

Old men miss many dogs.

Steve Allen

The more I know about men, the more I like dogs.

Gloria Allred

I bought my grandmother a Seeing Eye dog. But he's a little sadistic. He does impressions of cars screeching to a halt.

Larry Amoros

Unlike some people who have experienced the loss of an animal, I did not believe, even for a moment, that I would never get another. I did know full well that there were just too many animals out there in need of homes for me to take what I have always regarded as the self-indulgent road of saying the heartbreak of the loss of an animal was too much ever to want to go through with it again. 

To me, such an admission brought up the far more powerful admission that all the wonderful times you had with your animal were not worth the unhappiness at the end.

Cleveland Amory

My neighbor has two dogs. One of them says to the other, "Woof!" 

The other replies, "Moo!" 

The dog is perplexed. "Moo? Why did you say 'Moo'?" 

The other dog says, "I'm trying to learn a foreign language."

Morey Amsterdam

Some dogs live for praise. They look at you as if to say "Don't throw balls, just throw bouquets."

Jhordis Anderson

Dogs are my favorite people.

Richard Dean Anderson

A huge dog, tied by a chain, was painted on the wall and over it was written in capital letters "Beware of the Dog."

Petronius Arbiter

There is honor in being a dog.

Aristotle

I have a dog so mean, he ate the neighbor's weenie dog. Now he's a bratweiler.

Nick Arnette

My Labrador retriever had a nervous breakdown. I kept throwing him a boomerang.

Nick Arnette

Thank God for machines. They can make a dog sing!

Christopher Atkins

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

Norman R. Augustine

I drive a V10 Ford Excursion and I have to tell folks all the time: look I've got five kids and a dog and birds. I would have to have two Lincolns with two V8s, you see, so it would be 16 cylinders.

Dan Aykroyd