Dog Quotes for You to Enjoy

These 42 dog quotes are by authors with surnames that start with "R."

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

François Rabelais

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

Gilda Radner

With an endless assortment of children and animals living under one roof, there was always some absurd crisis that gave comic relief to my problems.

Sally Jessy Raphael

I have always felt it was human arrogance that assumes that only people have souls.

Anne Raver

The best way to get over a dog's death is to get another soon.

Ronald Reagan

They say the dog is man's best friend. I don't believe that. How many of your friends have you neutered?

Larry Reeb

Gratitude: that quality which the Canine Mongrel seldom lacks; which the Human Mongrel seldom possesses!

Lion P.S. Rees

A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

Agnes Repplier

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

Agnes Repplier

There was this little shaggy dog on it, and Frank Weatherwax was working the dog. One day we were all sitting around, and Frank said, listen, my brother Rudd just got the rights back from MGM for Lassie, and said have your agent check into it. I did, and I went for a screen test.

Tommy Rettig

We each had to spend a week out at Lassie's ranch, and whoever got along best with the dog got the part.

Tommy Rettig

Yeah, dog was this man's best friend, for sure.

Tommy Rettig

God... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better.

Rainer Maria Rilke

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

Rainer Maria Rilke

My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.

Joan Rivers

It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking.

Mickey Rivers

What was the name of that dog on "Rin Tin Tin"?

Mickey Rivers

One of the happiest sights in the world comes when a lost dog is reunited with a master he loves. You just haven't seen joy till you have seen that.

Eldon Roark

In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for the dog.

Doris Roberts

From the dog's point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog.

Mabel Louise Robinson

If a picture wasn't going very well I'd put a puppy dog in it, always a mongrel, you know, never one of the full bred puppies. And then I'd put a bandage on its foot. I liked it when I did it, but now I'm sick of it.

Norman Rockwell (this quote is usually seen now without the last sentence)

My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was "good for me" to have a dog for a companion. Well it was good for me, but it was only many years after she died that I began to understand how good it was, and why.

Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers)

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Will Rogers

No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.

Will Rogers

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.

Will Rogers

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.

Jeanne-Marie Roland

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals: financial worries.

Romain Rolland

If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

Andy Rooney

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

Andy Rooney

These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, on my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don't resent attacks... but Fala does resent them.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, about allegations that his Scottie had been left behind on an Alaskan island, and a destroyer was dispatched to bring him home, at great expense.

An Airedale can do anything any other dog can do and then whip the other dog if he has to.

Theodore Roosevelt

Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.

Leo Rosten

He certainly deserved the name better than those who had assumed it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, about his dog Duke

My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.

Carl Rowan

Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same ol' dog's rear end every day.

Darrell Royal

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

Rita Rudner

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpets or ruin our lives.

Rita Rudner

We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet—so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.

Rita Rudner

The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites.

[Latin, Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet.]

Quintus Curtius Rufus

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.

Bertrand Russell

God turns clouds inside out to make fluffy beds for the dogs in Dog Heaven, and when they are tired from running and barking and eating ham-sandwich biscuits, the dogs find a cloud bed for sleeping. God watches over each one of them. And there are no bad dreams.

Cynthia Rylant