111 Best Dog Quotes and Captions for Any Dog Lover to Show Your Love

Inspirational Dog Quotes

Take an inspirational and heartwarming journey with this collection of inspirational quotes about your dog that will make you feel a magical connection. These short but powerful words celebrate the unique bond between humans and their canine friends, offering a glimpse into the profound lessons, joy, and steadfast loyalty these people share. This furry friend brings us into our lives.

1. “I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon.”— Oprah Winfrey

2. “A well-trained dog will make no attempt to share your lunch. He will just make you feel so guilty that you cannot enjoy it.”  – Helen Thomson

3. “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.”—John Grogan

4. “A dog’s love is the sonnet of our existence, composed with verses of joy, choruses of loyalty, and the sweet refrain of paw prints etched on the pages of our hearts.” — Sir Barkington Wordsworth III

5. “A dog’s love is a poetic tapestry, each thread woven with the fibers of loyalty, resilience, and the timeless artistry that transforms our lives into a lyrical composition of joy and warmth.” — Queen Floofington

6. “I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive.”—Gilda Radner

7. “The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.” – M.K. Clinton

8. The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down.”  – Gordon Korman

9. Name one development in the history of humankind that has increased happiness more than the domestication of dogs. — Aaron Easterly

10. “The canine chronicles are an opus of love, a symphony where each paw step is a note, every tail wag a crescendo, and the harmonious ensemble creates a masterpiece that echoes in the corridors of our hearts.” — Sir Cuddlepaws

11. “If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”  – Woodrow Wilson

12. Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. —Roger Caras

13. Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart. —Erica Jong

14.  “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

15. “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

16. “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

17. “If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.” – Woodrow Wilson

18. “It’s tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won’t drink from my glass.” – Rodney Dangerfield

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

20. “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

21. “Before you get a dog, you can’t quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can’t imagine living any other way.”— Caroline Knapp

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

23. “The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable possession of mankind” – Theodorus Gaza

24. “Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.” – Caroline Knapp

25. “Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dog.”  – Ernest Thompson Seton

26. “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

27. “Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them and filling an emptiness we didn’t ever know we had.” – Thom Jones

28. “Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives.”  – Sue Murphy

29. “If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.” – Woodrow Wilson

I Love My Dog Quotes

There are so many kinds of love in the world, but the bond between people and their dogs is the strongest. What “I Love My Dog Quotes” really mean is that they celebrate the joy, loyalty, and unspoken understanding that make the bond between a dog and its owner special and loved.

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

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

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

4. “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.” – John Grogan

5. “The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.” – Daniel Pinkwater

6. Before you get a dog, you can’t quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can’t imagine living any other way.” – Caroline Knapp

7. “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” – Groucho Marx

8. “Ever consider what our dogs must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul, chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth!” – Anne Tyler

9. “I’ve seen a long in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.”—John Steinbeck

10. “No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.”  — Christopher Morley

11. “The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.”—M.K. Clinton

12. “My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.” – Michael Sheen

13. “I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that dogs think humans are nuts.”  – John Steinbeck

14. “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

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

16. “Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned a dog.” —Gene Hill

17. “Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.”Kinky Friedman

18. “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.” – John Grogan (author, “Marley & Me”)

19. A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat’s eyes don’t even look entirely warm—blooded to me, whereas a dog’s eyes look human except less guarded. A dog will look at you as if to say, ‘What do you want me to do for you? I’ll do anything for you.’ Whether a dog can in fact, do anything for you if you don’t have sheep [I never have] is another matter. The dog is willing.” – Roy Blount Jr. 

20. “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.” – Unknown

Dog Friendship Quotes

Check out these heartwarming quotes about dog friendship that really get to the heart of the unbreakable bond between people and their furry friends. These quotes show the special bond between dogs and their human friends, from loyalty to laughter.

1. “All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn’t a dog.”—Charles M. Schulz

2. “In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn’t merely try to train him to be semi human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.”  – Edward Hoagland

3. “To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.” – Aldous Huxley

4. “Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love, they depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog. It merely expands the heart.” – Author Unknown

5. “A dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you’re in faster than you can think of.”

6. “No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you feel rich.” – Jill Abramson

7. “I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs.”  – Barbara Woodhous

8. “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

9. “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

10. “My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.” – Anne Lamott

11. “The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.”  – Stanley Coren

12. “A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.”  – Robert Benchley

13. “The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.” – George Graham

14. “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

15. “Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.”  – Jodi Picoult

16. “Opening up your life to a dog who needs a home is one of the most fulfilling things you can do.—”Emma Kenney

17. “The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.”  – Lord Byron

18. “When an 85 pound mammal licks your tears away, and then tries to sit on your lap, it’s hard to feel sad.” – Kristan Higgins

19. “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

20. “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

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

22. “I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive.” – Gilda Radner

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

24. 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

25. “I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not better for it.”  – Abraham Lincoln

26. “Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”  – Marilyn Monroe

27. Dogs have more love than integrity. They’ve been true to us, yes, but they haven’t been true to themselves.”  – Clarence Day

28. “Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it watching for us to come home each day.” – John Grogan

29. “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

30. “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 conclude that they are gods.” – Christopher Hitchens