These dog quotes will remind you of just how amazing of our canine companions really are.

For many people, there is nothing in this world that is purer than the love of a dog. A dog is ultimately selfless, and totally devoted to the humans who have chosen them.

There are so many reasons to love dogs. If you’re a dog owner, you probably love your pup in the same way as a family member.

Whether it’s waiting at the door when they know you’re coming home or wagging and happy barking when excited for food, dogs have a special place in our lives.

When you’re feeling down after a hard day, you can always count on your pet dog to improve your mood.

A dog will always love you unconditionally. Even though you might get busy and lack the time to spend with them, your canine companion will always remain loyal and loving. You are never friendless if you have a dog.

To help you celebrate your pup, below is our collection of cute, funny, and inspirational dog quotes, dog sayings, and dog proverbs, collected from a variety of sources over the years.

Dog Quotes About Man’s Best Friend To Inspire You

1. “You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you’re in faster than you can think of.” – Jill Abramson

2. “Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.” – Emily Dickinson

3. “A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.” ― Josh Billings

4. “Dogs are miracle with paws.” — Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy

5. “A dog will teach you, unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won’t be too bad.” – Robert Wagner

6. “There’s just something about dogs that makes you feel good. You come home, they’re thrilled to see you. They’re good for the ego.” – Janet Schnellman

7. “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”  – Mark Twain

8. “No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend.” — Will Rogers

9. “Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” – Roger Caras

10. “A dog doesn’t care if you’re rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.” – John Grogan

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11. “The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.” – Henry Ward

12. “When I look into the eyes of an animal I do not see an animal. I see a living being. I see a friend. I feel a soul.” -​ A.D. Williams

13. “The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.” – M.K. Clinton

14. “I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross, and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.” – Mark Haddon

15. “A dog is the only thing that can mend a crack in your broken heart.” – Judy Desmond

16. “I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive.” – Gilda Radner

17. “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”  – Will Rogers

18. “The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.” – Stanley Coren

19. “Dogs are how people would be if the important stuff is all that mattered to us.” – Ashly Lorenzana

20. “Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.” – Dean Koontz

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21. “Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.”  – Ann Landers

22. “The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.” – Michel Houellebecq

23. “Until one has loved an animal a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” ― Anatole France

24. “If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.” – James Thurber

25. “When you adopt a dog, you have a lot of very good days and one very bad day.” – W. Bruce Cameron

26. “Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.” – Erica Jong

27. “No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.” – Christopher Morley

28. “Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.” – Alexander Pope

29. “If you don’t have a dog–at least one–there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.” –  Vincent van Gogh

30. “There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.” – Benjamin Franklin

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31. “I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh.” – Oprah Winfrey

32. “The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.” – Johnny Depp

33. “If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.” – Woodrow Wilson

34. “If you want loyalty get a dog. If you want loyalty and attention, get a smart dog.” — Grant Fairley

35. “For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog.” – Roger Caras

36. “Everybody should have a shelter dog. It’s good for the soul.” – Paul Shaffer

37. “Puppies are nature’s remedy for feeling unloved, plus numerous other ailments of life.” — Ann Landers

38. “Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.” – Dean Koontz

39. “It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.” – John Grogan

40. “Everything I know, I learned from dogs.” – Nora Roberts

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41. “A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.”  – Robert Benchley

42. “The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.” — Samuel Butle

43. “My little dog – a heartbeat at my feet.” – Edith Wharton

44. “No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you feel rich.” – Louis Sabin

45. “Everyone thinks they have the best dog. And none of them are wrong.” — W.R. Purche

46. “You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

47. “The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.” – Lord Byron

48. “I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.” – Doris Day

49. “If I could be half the person my dog is, I’d be twice the human I am” ​- Charles Yu

50. “Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, and filling the emptiness we didn’t ever know we had” – Thom Jones

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51. “The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.” — Ambrose Bierce

52. “Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.” ― Sigmund Freud

53. “A lot of times, my best friend was my dog.” – Rose Namajunas

54. “They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.” – Jerome K. Jerome

55. “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” — Graucho Marx

56. “Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.” – Kinky Friedman

57. “There’s a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.” – Dick Dale

58. “I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.” ― Cesar Millan

59. “No matter how you’re feeling, a little dog gonna love you.” – Waka Flocka Flame

60. “I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.” – Kurt Vonnegut

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61. “The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.” – Andy Rooney

62. “Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.” – Roger Caras

63. “Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.” – John Grogan

64. “People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.” – Jim Butcher

65. “You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.” – W. Bruce Cameron

66. “Dogs are the magicians of the universe.” – Clarissa Pinkola Estés

67. “The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.” – James Thurber

68. “Don’t make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans, or they’ll treat you like dogs.” – Martha Scott

69. “A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.” – Barbara Kingsolver

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71. “What do dogs do on their day off? Can’t lie around—that’s their job.”  – George Carlin

72. “Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job.” – Franklin P. Jones

73. “Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.” – Franklin P. Jones

74. “Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.” – John Grogan

75. “There ain’t a man livin’ who hasn’t talked to his dog.” – Hank Williams

76. “Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?” – Jonathan  Safran Foer

77. “You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.” – Carl Icahn

78. “Did you know that there are over 300 words for love in canine?” – Gabriel Zevin

79. “The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.” – Robert Falcon Scott

80. “Dogs do speak, but only to those who low how to listen.” – Orhan Pamuk

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81. “A well trained dog will make no attempt to share your lunch. He will just make you feel so guilty that you cannot enjoy it.” – Helen Thomson

82. “Ever consider what our dogs must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul, chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth!” – Anne Tyler

83. “If aliens saw us walking our dogs and picking up their poop, who would they think is in charge?” – Unknown

84. “Dogs teach us a very important lesson in life: The mail man is not to be trusted.” – Sian Ford

85. “Dogs are like potato chips. You can’t have just one.” – Unknown

86. “No home decor is complete without dog hair.” – Unknown

87. “I don’t think twice about picking up my dog’s poop, but if another dog’s poop is next to it, I think, ‘Eww, dog poop!” – Jonah Goldberg

88. My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. That’s almost $21.00 in dog money.” – Joe Weinstein

89. “You can trust your dog to guard your house but never trust your dog to guard your sandwich.” – Unknown90. What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.” – Rodney Dangerfield

Which of these dog quotes is your favorite?

Dogs mean so much to us. They show loyalty to us, protect us, are our exercise partners, and they love us more than they love themselves.

If you’re an animal lover, you’ll agree with us that dogs are among the sweetest, cutest and most lovable pets. We hope the dog quotes above have given you reason to celebrate your canine companions.

Did you enjoy these dog quotes? Which of the quotes is your favorite? Let us know in the comment section below.

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