These 21 dog quotes are by authors with surnames that start with "R". Click on the Previous link at the bottom to see the rest of the "R" quotes.
I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.
If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.
No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.
The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
Will Rogers
The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.
Jeanne-Marie Roland
I know at last what distinguishes man from animals: financial worries.
Romain Rolland
If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Andy Rooney
These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, on my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don't resent attacks... but Fala does resent them.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, about allegations that his Scottie had been left behind on an Alaskan island, and a destroyer was dispatched to bring him home, at great expense.
An Airedale can do anything any other dog can do and then whip the other dog if he has to.
Theodore Roosevelt
Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.
Leo Rosten
I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.
Johnny Rotten
He certainly deserved the name better than those who had assumed it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, about his dog Duke
My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.
Carl Rowan
Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same ol' dog's rear end every day.
Darrell Royal
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpets or ruin our lives.
We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet — so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.
Rita Rudner
The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites.
[Latin, Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet.]
Quintus Curtius Rufus
No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.
Bertrand Russell
God turns clouds inside out to make fluffy beds for the dogs in Dog Heaven, and when they are tired from running and barking and eating ham-sandwich biscuits, the dogs find a cloud bed for sleeping. God watches over each one of them. And there are no bad dreams.
Cynthia Rylant
