I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

Pooper scooper? Yeah, I’ve done it a few times. Every once in a while, you have to.

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

I’ve seen a look in dogs‘ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

Dogs never bite me – just humans.

This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I’d call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I’d take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor’s room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

I love pets, especially dogs.

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.

I was definitely very much a country boy.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

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

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

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 affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

I really want a pet, and I really love animals.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

I’ve got four dogs, and I just don’t do dog doo. I’m a diva when it comes to that.

I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he’s gone.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.