Merrill Markoe Quotes

I love my dogs and I give them affection all the time but it has to be at the right time or they get confused.

Sit, Phantom!" Ivy cooed. "On your bottom!" "Oh, for goodness' sake!" Gabriel put down his book and pointed a longer finger at Phantom. "Sit," he commanded in a deep voice. Phantom looked sheepish and sank straight to the floor. Ivy scowled in frustration. "I've been trying to get him to do that all day! What is it with dogs and male authority?

Dogs don't make mistakes.

I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they don't run. They really act up.

A boar is often held by a not-so-large dog.

Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.

I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are.

A big dog tends to be much more at ease with kids and gentle with them than a little one that's always yelping.

The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady's pet, is only a degenerate wolf.

Where are the dogs?" I asked. "At training," he said. "I have a friend who's an expert dog trainer, and he's giving them some stealth lessons. He used to work for a local K-9 unit." I didn't think it was in the Chihuahua genetic code to ever be stealthy.

My dog learned how to beg by watching me through the bedroom door.

You can imagine an already unstable mind that's completely entitled and has been given anything they wanted, throughout their whole life, and lived in a bubble with a domineering, in a very quietly manipulating way, mother, that child mentality never gets a chance to mature and discover its own limitations. It just runs rampant.

An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one.

I never want to end up being a self-centered, vain human being.

I saw a great Newfoundland dog the other day sitting in front of a mirror at the entrance to a shop in Regent's Circus, and examining himself with an amount of smug satisfaction that I have never seen equaled elsewhere outside a vestry meeting.

Who made you the center of the universe?

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.

Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.

A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

Most owners are at length able to teach themselves to obey their dog.

Dogs like to obey. It gives them security.

The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

A bad dog never sees the Wolfe.