A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
Buddha

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham Lincoln

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.
Steven Wright

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.
Erma Bombeck

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.
Erma Bombeck

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
William Shakespeare

People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.
Mitch Hedberg

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

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Ogden Nash

Door: What a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Ogden Nash

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway

There's just me and my wife and a dog and we feed him Healthy Choice also.
Mike Ditka

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.
Martin Luther