60 Dog Best Friend Quotes to Affirm your Loving Bond

Dog lover?

Then you’ll love these dog best friend quotes!

These words are perfect for dog lovers to express their affection for their furry friends to those who may not get it.

Post as a caption with your pup’s pic on social media for guaranteed likes and comments!

Let’s jump right into the furry fun.

Short Dog Best Friend Quotes

Just a few words can say a lot about love!

Dogs never lie about love.
~ Jeffrey Masson

Love is a four legged word.
~ Unknown

Happiness is a warm puppy.
~ Charles Schultz

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
~ Marilyn Monroe

Only my dogs will not betray me.
~ Maria Callas

Wake up. Hug dog. Have a good day.
~ Unknown

A house is not a home without a dog.
~ Unknown

To err is human – to forgive, canine.
~ Unknown

My little dog – a heartbeat at my feet.
~ Edith Wharton

Everything I know, I learned from dogs.
~ Nora Roberts

When I needed a hand, I found your paw.
~ Unknown

You can always find hope in a dog’s eyes.
~ Unknown

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
~ Harry Truman

The road to my heart is paved with paw prints.
~ Unknown

I’m a lot less cranky when it’s just me and my dog.
~ Bob Peterson

I’m a huge dog person; I love to hug and kiss them.
~ Danielle de Niese

Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.
~ Unknown

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Famous Dog Best Friend Quotes

Famous friends of dogs provide wise words about the love of a dog.

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.
~ Will Rogers

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
~ Andy Rooney

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
~ Elizabeth Taylor

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

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man’s.
~ Mark Twain

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
~ Charles de Gaulle

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

I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not better for it.
~ Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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

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

There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
~ Benjamin Franklin

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

Animals are such agreeable friends. They ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
~ George Elliot

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
~ Johnny Depp

A dog doesn’t care if you’re rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.
~ John Grogan

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

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
~ Sigmund Freud

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

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Sweet Dog Best Friend Quotes

Whether you feel dogs are man’s best friend or woman’s, you’ll find loving words to share.

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

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer

You may have many best friends but your dog only has one.
~ Unknown

Whoever said diamonds are a girl’s best friend never owned a dog.
~ Unknown

Everyone thinks they have the best dog. And none of them are wrong.
~ W.R. Purche

A best friend is someone who loves you when you forget to love yourself.
~ Unknown

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

The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.
~ Konrad Lorenz

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

Dogs teach us a very important lesson in life: The mail man is not to be trusted.
~ Sian Ford

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
~ Lord Byron

A dog will be your best friend no matter what. Even if your human friends aren’t.
~ Unknown

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

Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
~ Ann Landers

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.
~ Christopher Morley

No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you feel rich.
~ Louis Sabin

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

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
~ Capek

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

The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
~ Samuel Butler

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