Dogs are not only man’s best friend, they are also man’s most loyal companion. To most families, their dog is not just a pet but an integral family member. If you have a dog, you’ll likely know how your furry friend contributes a great deal to your own happiness. Your dog may fill your life and that of your family with love, excitement, and a lot to laugh about. Your furry friend protects you, puts a smile on your face, and comforts you when you’re down. Not to mention the truly sincere excitement of your dog the moment you enter the house. In short, dogs are just wonderful. Whatever may come, your dog will always be at your side. To celebrate man’s best friend, we’ve created a collection of beautiful dog quotes for true dog maniacs.

A dog is more than just a mere companion. Your dog may contribute a great deal to your families’ overall happiness and fulfillment. Even more so, having a furry friend can make your life a lot more worthwhile.

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

No matter if your dog is coming up with the funniest ideas to persuade you to take a walk or turns into a scared-cat during a thunderstorm, there’s always something beautiful to laugh about when you have a dog in your house.

The following quotes about dogs will show you why dogs have always been and will always remain man’s best friend.

80 Beautiful Dog Quotes for Dog Lovers

What is so beautiful about the following dog quotes is that they stem from authors whose dogs have truly inspired their lives. They all have come to realize what a wonderful and important addition a dog is to their lives. As a result, these authors have put their great love for their furry friend to paper. It is their eloquent and beautiful words that help us in finding the right words that describe how uniquely important our dogs are to us.

Here are these wonderful quotes about dogs

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“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
Christopher Hitchens

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“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 A. Caras

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“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace.“
Milan Kundera

4.

“A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.“
John Grogan

5.

“The very best thing about dogs is how they just know when you need them most, and they’ll drop everything that they’re doing to sit with you awhile.“
Steven Rowley

6.

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

7.

“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

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“Dogs are minor angels, and I don’t mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally, forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to do anything that makes us happy, etcetera. If we attributed some of those qualities to a person we would say they are special. If they had ALL of them, we would call them angelic. But because it’s “only” a dog, we dismiss them as sweet or funny but little more. However when you think about it, what are the things that we most like in another human being? Many times those qualities are seen in our dogs every single day– we’re just so used to them that we pay no attention.“
Jonathan Carroll

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“When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it’s hard to feel sad.“
Kristan Higgins

10.

“Happiness is a warm puppy.“
Charles M. Schulz

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“The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.“
Martin Luther

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“You can say any fool thing to a dog and the dog will just give you this look that says, ‘My GOSH, you’re RIGHT! I NEVER would’ve thought of that!“
Dave Barry

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“There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog“
Konrad Lorenz

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“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

15.

“They had buried him under our elm tree, they said – yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.“
Willie Morris

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“Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.“
Dave Barry

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“If you live with dogs, you’ll never run out of things to write about.“
Sharon Delarose

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“People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way.“
Ashly Lorenzana

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“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

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“No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish – consciously or unconsciously – that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.“
Dean Koontz

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“The love between dog and man is idyllic. It knows no conflicts, no hair-raising scenes; it knows no development.“
Milan Kundera

22.

“Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks.“
Roger A. Caras

23.

“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

24.

“As wonderful as dogs can be, they are famous for missing the point.“
Jean Ferris

25.

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

26.

“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

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

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“Any man with money to make the purchase may become a dog’s owner. But no man – spend he ever so much coin and food and tact in the effort – may become a dog’s Master without consent of the dog. Do you get the difference? And he whom a dog once unreservedly accepts as Master is forever that dog’s God.“
Albert Payson Terhune

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“When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.“
Dean Koontz

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“I never met a man half so true as a dog. Treat a dog right, and he’ll treat you right. He’ll keep you company, be your friend, and never ask you no questions. Cats is different, but I never held that against ’em.“
Mary Ann Shaffer

31.

“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.“
Marilyn Monroe

32.

“The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. ‘I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with that, kiss you.’ There are no ulterior motives with a dog, no mind games, no second-guessing, no complicated negotiations or bargains, and no guilt trips or grudges if a request is denied.“
Caroline Knapp

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“Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core.“
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

34.

“The more boys I meet the more I love my dog.“
Carrie Underwood

35.

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

36.

“Whoever said you can’t buy Happiness forgot little puppies.“
Gene Hill

37.

“Dogs act exactly the way we would act if we had no shame.”
Cynthia Heimel

38.

“My cats inspire me daily. They inspire me to get a dog!“
Greg Curtis

39.

“[Speaking about Washington, DC.] You want a friend in this city? Get a dog!“
Harry Truman

40.

“I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies.“
Merrill Markoe

41.

“We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.“
Max DePree

42.

“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

43.

“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

44.

“The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.”
Margot Kaufman

45.

“Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself.“
Dean Koontz

46.

“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.“
Mark Twain

47.

“Over the years I’ve come to appreciate how animals enter our lives prepared to teach and far from being burdened by an inability to speak they have many different ways to communicate. It is up to us to listen more than hear, to look into more than past.“
Nick Trout

48.

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

49.

“Discipline isn’t about showing a dog who’s boss; it’s about taking responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.“
Cesar Millan

50.

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

51.

“Because dogs live in the present. Because dogs don’t hold grudges. Because dogs let go of all their anger daily, hourly, and never let it fester. They absolve and forgive with each passing minute. Every turn of a corner is the opportunity for a clean slate. Every bounce of a ball brings joy and the promise of a fresh chase.“
Steven Rowley

52.

“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.“
Colette

53.

“In my lap I had my dear little pug, the smell of whose ears will always be sweeter to me than all the perfumes of Araby and the scent of heliotrope combined.“
Kathryn Davis

54.

“Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go in circles, and we seem unable to break away, wondering what horrible event the future holds for us, the dog opens a window into the delight of the moment.“
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

55.

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

56.

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

57.

“Golden retrievers are not bred to be guard dogs, and considering the size of their hearts and their irrepressible joy in life, they are less likely to bite than to bark, less likely to bark than to lick a hand in greeting. In spite of their size, they think they are lap dogs, and in spite of being dogs, they think they are also human, and nearly every human they meet is judged to have the potential to be a boon companion who might, at many moment, cry, ‘Let’s go!’ and lead them on a great adventure.“
Dean Koontz

58.

“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 Butler

59.

“Being a hero to someone, even if it is a dog, is a feeling like no other. Though it can be frustrating, it can be the most rewarding thing to give someone a second chance at a happy life.“
Elizabeth Parker

60.

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

61.

“In a dog’s life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us.“
John Grogan

62.

“A dog is like a person – he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.“
Andrew Vachss

63.

“You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.“
Kate DiCamillo

64.

“Sometimes, it turns out, the most important decisions in life are made by your dog.“
Adam Gidwitz

65.

“It’s just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn’t it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.“
John Grogan

66.

“The face of a golden retriever feels like home.“
David Rosenfelt

67.

“You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.“
Robert Louis Stevenson

68.

“After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.“
Robert McCammon

69.

“May I tell you a wonderful truth about your dog? […] You have been given stewardship of what you in your faith might call a holy soul.“
Dean Koontz

70.

“Science has so far been unable to tell us how self-aware dogs are, much less whether they have anything like our conscious thoughts. This is not surprising, since neither scientists nor philosophers can agree about what the consciousness of humans consists of, let alone that of animals.“
John Bradshaw

71.

“Maybe this is kind of cliche, but animals, well, dogs, are what I do for a living. One reason I like spending time with them so much is they seem to think people are really good. They live with us, and obey our rules, most of which make no sense to them. And the main reason they do it is because they like us. When I watch them, sometimes I’m so blown away by how enthusiastic they are about everything we do that I have to go out and buy them something squeaky or chewy. Just because I love proving to them that it’s not a mistake to see the world as a great benevolent place. I hope one day to react to something with as much pure ecstasy as I see in Chuck’s face every time I throw the ball. Sometimes he looks so happy, it reminds me of the way blind people smile way too big because they can’t see themselves.“
Merrill Markoe

72.

“One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you’re feeling blue is that he doesn’t try to find out why.”
Unknown

73.

“The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there when we think we are alone. Think of what they could tell us. They sit on the laps of presidents. They see acts of love and violence, quarrels and feuds, and the secret play of children. If they could tell us everything they have seen, all of the gaps of our lives would stitch themselves together.“
Carolyn Parkhurst

74.

“Dogs are the magicians of the universe.“
Clarissa Pinkola Estés

75.

“Sometimes you’re sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they’re only their simple, goofy selves.“
Deb Caletti

76.

“Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.”
Max Eastman

77.

“A dog might feel as majestic as a lion, might bark as loud as a roar, might have a heart as mighty and brave as a Lion’s heart, but at the end of the day, a dog is a dog and a lion is a lion.“
Charlyn Khater

78.

“The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since we humans programmed this vulnerability, it’s our responsibility to ensure that our dogs do not suffer as a result.“
John Bradshaw

79.

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

80.

“It’s hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.“
Kate DiCamillo

Bonus

“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

I hope you enjoyed this collection of beautiful and uplifting dog quotes.

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