Dog Days Quotes:

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Inspirational, Dog, Silly, Niceness, I Love My Dog

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

- Roger Caras

topic: Life, Dog, Sorry, Man And Dog, Spaniels

Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

topic: Dog, Pet, Faults, Man And Dog, Inspirational Dog

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

topic: Dog, Companionship, Silent, Inspirational Dog, I Love My Dog

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

topic: Dog, Car, Pet, Spaniels, Inspirational Dog

Every dog must have his day.

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Success, Dog, Bad Day, Inspirational Dog, Labrador Dogs

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

- Josh Billings

topic: Love, Friendship, Dog, Man And Dog, Inspirational Dog

The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.

- Natalie Babbitt

topic: Summer, Spring, Sunset, Ferris Wheels, Summer Inspirational

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

- Orhan Pamuk

source: FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from Jun 15, 2011

topic: Dog, Pet, Speak, Dog Days, Dog Grief

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

- Groucho Marx

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Funny, Friendship, Education, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Dog

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

- Charles de Gaulle

topic: Funny Love, Dog, Men, Man And Dog, Inspirational Dog

For me, ‘Dog Days’ symbolizes apocalyptic euphoria, chaotic freedom and running really, really fast with your eyes closed.

- Florence Welch

source: "Florence and the Machine's 'GMA' Concert: Five Fun Florence Facts" by Katie Kindelan, abcnews.go.com. June 24, 2011.

topic: Running, Dog, Eye, Apocalyptic, Euphoria

Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over. We have had our holidays, our rest, our recreation. The fall season, with its new opportunities for effort, enterprise and achievement, is upon us. Let us rip off our coats and get down to business. We may have allowed pessimism to grip us during the summer months. We may even have allowed laziness to enter our bones. Now it is up to us to throw off both lassitude and pessimism. The time has come for action, for aggressiveness.

- B. C. Forbes

topic: Summer, Dog, Rip, Dog Days

If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.

- Harry S. Truman

source: "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman".

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Dog, Cat And Dog, Dog Best Friend

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

- Ann Landers

topic: Dog, Finding Yourself, Admiration, Man And Dog, Inspirational Dog

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

- Bernard Williams

topic: Happiness, Nature, Inspirational Life, Man And Dog, Spaniels

Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.

- Gene Hill

source: Gene Hill (2013). “A Hunter's Fireside Book: Tales of Dogs, Ducks, Birds, & Guns”, p.62, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Dog, Nature, Silly, Bulldogs, Spaniels

There was no air; only the dead, still night fired by the dog days of August. Not a breath. I had to suck in the same air I exhaled, cupping it in my hands before it escaped. I felt it, in and out, less each time…until it was so thin it slipped through my fingers forever. I mean, forever.

- Juan Rulfo

topic: Dog, Mean, Night, Dog Days

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. 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

source: John Grogan (2012). “Marley & Me”, p.251, Hachette UK

topic: Dog, Laughter, Home, Inspirational Animal, I Love My Dog

Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.

- Cesar Millan

topic: Dog, Humans, Persons, Man And Dog, Inspirational Dog

A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Dog, Thinking, Doe, Inspirational Dog, Dog Days

In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer's dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.

- Brené Brown

topic: Summer, Dog, School, Dog Days, School Work

Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was running a long, windless swell. It was on days just like this--dog days--that boats went sailing off all by themselves. Large, alien objects made their way in from sea, certain things sank and others rose, milk soured, and dragonflies danced in desperation. Lizards were not afraid. When the moon came up, red spiders mated on uninhabited skerries, where the rock became an unbroken carpet of tiny, ecstatic spiders.

- Tove Jansson

topic: Running, Dog, Grandmother, Dragonflies, Dog Days

I don't know if you've ever seen some of the Sidney Lumet movies, like Dog Day Afternoon [1975] or Network [1976]. They're real events that happen in real time, and there are all of these different characters experiencing the same thing in different parts of the movie ... I am so bad at explaining my films. But it's in the world of finance and the world of media, and how they connect. It was a big undertaking. A big, mainstream movie, which stars Julia Roberts and George Clooney. But for me, it's really just a small story about character and people.

- Jodie Foster

source: "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

topic: Dog, Stars, Real, Dog Days

I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon.

- Guillaume Canet

topic: Dog, New York, Mean, Dog Days, Mean Streets

Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the highway from hedge to hedge, Fleeter than a flash, in the battering dog-day weather, A fiery little monster, livid, in a rage, Black as any peppercorn, came and made a dart At the guts of the others, and leaping to engage One of the pair, it pierced him at the part Through which we first draw food; then loosed its grip And fell before him, outstretched and apart.

- Dante Alighieri

topic: Dog, Weather, Justice, Dog Days, Fiery

'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.

- Florence Welch

topic: Dog, Wall, Play, Cupboards, Dog Days

Intel is down but not out. We have a very nervous market and it's the dog days of summer, ... We are short-term overbought so we're giving some of it back with the excuse being Intel.

- Albert Goldman

topic: Summer, Dog, Giving, Dog Days

No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of summer, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.

- Herman Melville

source: Herman Melville (1974). “Moby Dick; or, The Whale”, p.23, Lulu.com

topic: Summer, Country, Dog, Tanning, Dandy

As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like 'The Godfather' or 'Dog Day Afternoon' or 'The Graduate.' You watch one of those, and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies, it makes you think, If that counts, I certainly could write.

- Jason Reitman

topic: Dog, Writing, Thinking, Dog Days