Gene Wolfe Quotes

I love pets, especially dogs.

Dogs are a habit, I think.

Never have a dog. Let's not beat around the bush here: dogs are morons.

I have dogs in my house and much like teenagers at some point, they leave the parents. Even though they're in the same house, they live independently. I think that's how I live with the Chihuahuas.

I think pets are great. They're better than kids, that's for sure.

The owners of a dog which swallowed a diamond worth £12000 had to wait three days until it re-emerged. With a bit of planning it could have been a nice way to propose.

Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.

Having pets can teach us a lot of things. For kids, they are often their first lesson in responsibility, and being responsible for the well-being of another living thing is actually great for anyone, kid or adult. It teaches empathy, consistency, and so much more - especially if that pet is a dog.

I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of the whole house. It keeps them all young.

I don’t have to walk my dog anymore. I walked him all at once.

The best piece of advice I ever had was from my sister who told me to get a dog. I have four now and they have changed my life. Having dogs makes you into a less selfish person. You have to pay attention to these other beings and they become your best friends and brighten up everything in your life - they force you out of the door in the morning, because you have to take them for walks.

Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.

It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.

It might be better - more comfortable - to have a dog and two cats. All the love is focused on the cats and the dog. Am I right or wrong here? Have you seen it? At the end of this marriage, comes old age and loneliness.

I've got Flossie dog, and she is great. She and I are still in love, 14 years. That's a relationship that works.

I like a bit of color myself, I must say. At my time of life, if you wear nothing but black, people might think you were too mean to change frocks between funerals.

I think some dogs may like the attention of being dressed up by their humans because they interpret it as affection, but unless it's something that you've made the dog used to from the time it was a puppy, it's probably going to always feel a little weird and unnatural to the dog. This doesn't mean I think people should never dress their dogs up as long as they do it for the right reasons. If you're putting booties and a coat on your dog to protect it from the weather, then that's a pretty legitimate reason.

Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?

People always want to compare their dogs to having kids. That's insulting. First of all, nobody has a dog because they were too drunk to pull out.

A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.

The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

Who let the dogs out? Who, who.

Euthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved.

A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life.

I don't have a dog, because I travel too much. I don't want to just leave it abandoned.