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"If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already." Actual Twents: "At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene." Meaning: Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.

[London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as you keep them under control, give them their exercise, feed them, pat them, you will find their wild emotions are amusing, and their characters interesting.

This isn't like naming your dog Spot.

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.

It freshens your breath and helps prevent tartar.

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

Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.

There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly. The second is from the Psalms; grin like a dog and run about through the city.

Elizabeth's back at the Red Cross, and I'm walking the dog.

A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog.

A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.

What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs.

My dog is half pit bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!

A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.

A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.

Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.

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

A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.

With the exception of women, there is nothing on earth so agreeable or necessary to the comfort of man as the dog.

I once heard a woman who had lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly missing from her world: the dog had introduced to her field of vision some previously unavailable hue and without a dog, that color was gone. That seemed to capture the experience of loving a dog with eminent simplicity. I'd amend it only slightly and say that if we are open to what they have to give, dogs can introduce us to several colors with names like wildness, nurturance, trust and joy.

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers.

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