DOG QUOTES

• "He is my other eyes that can see above the clouds; my other ears that hear above the winds. He is the part of me that can reach out into the sea. He has told me a thousand times over that I am his reason for being; by the way he rests against my leg; by the way he thumps his tail at my smallest smile; by the way he shows his hurt when I leave without taking him. (I think it makes him sick with worry when he is not along to care for me.) When I am wrong, he is delighted to forgive. When I am angry, he clowns to make me smile. When I am happy, he is joy unbounded. When I am a fool, he ignores it. When I succeed, he brags. Without him, I am only another man. With him, I am all-powerful. He is loyalty itself. He has taught me the meaning of devotion. With him, I know a secret comfort and a private peace. He has brought me understanding where before I was ignorant. His head on my knee can heal my human hurts. His presence by my side is protection against my fears of dark and unknown things. He has promised to wait for me... whenever... wherever - in case I need him. And I expect I will - as I always have. He is just my dog." - Gene Hill
  
  
• "A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along." - E B White, The Care and Training of a Dog
  
  
• "Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives." - Sue Murphy
  
  
• A house without either a cat or a dog is the house of a scoundrel." - Portuguese Proverb
  
  
• "Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar." - Steve Allen
  
  
• Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs." - Martha Scott
  
  
• "Dogs are better than children. Even my friends with children say that. As a dog friend of mine likes to say, children are for people who can't have dogs."
  
  
• "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 Caras
  First you learn a new language, profanity; and second you learn not to discipline your dogs when you're mad, and that's most of the time when you're training dogs." - Lou Schultz, trainer of Alaskan Huskies
  
  
• "I like dogs better [than people]. They give you unconditional love. They either lick your face or bite you, but you always know where they're coming from. With people, you never know which ones will bite. The difference between dogs and men is that you know where dogs sleep at night." - Greg Louganis
  
  
• "I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts." - John Steinbeck
  
  
• "In a perfect world, every dog would have a home and every home would have a dog."
  
  
• "Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this - one dog does not change a bone with another." - Adam Smith
  
  
• "Maybe you've been looking for love in all the wrong places. A dog will treat you better than anyone you'll meet at happy hour. Trust me. I've been to happy hour."
  
  
• "The great 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
  "The greater love is a mother's; then comes a dog's; then a sweetheart's." - Polish Proverb
  
  
• "The more people I meet the more I like my dog.
  
  
• "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. . . .He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. . . .When all other friends desert, he remains." - George G Vest
  
  
• "They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation." - Jerome K. Jerome
  
  
• "To live long, eat like a cat, drink like a dog." - German Proverb
  
  
• "Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies." -Gene Hill
  
  
• "You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, `My God, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!'" - Dave Barry
  
  
• "He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." - Unknown
  
  
• The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. -Anonymous
  
  
• There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. -Ben Williams
  
  
• A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. -Josh Billings
  
  
• The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
  -Andy Rooney
  
  
• Dogs love their friends &bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love &always, have to mix love & hate. -Anonymous
  
  
• Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog. -Franklin P. Jones
  
  
• If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise
  -Unknown
  
  
• Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. -Robert A. Heinlein
  
  
• If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. -Mark Twain
  
  
• Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
  -Roger Caras
  
  
• If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them.
  -Phil Pastoret
  
  
• I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. - Marie Corelli
  "In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him." - Dereke Bruce, Taipei, Taiwan
  "The difference between cats and dogs is, dogs come when they are called, cats take a message and get back to you." - Unknown
  
  
• "Every dog has his day -- but the nights are reserved for the cats." - Unknown
  
  
• "It's hard to teach an old dog new tricks." - Unknown
  "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." - Unknown
  
  
• "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. . . .He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. . . .When all other friends desert, he remains." - George G Vest
  
  
• "In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man." - Maurice Maeterlinck 'Our Friend, The Dog'
  
  
• "If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog." - George Bernard Shaw
  
  
• "Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job." - Franklin P Jones
  
  
• "You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog." - Carl Icahn, US auto business executive
  
  
• "Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.." - Henry Wheeler Shaw
  
  
• "No Matter how little money and how few possessions, you own, having a dog makes you rich." - Louis Sabin
  
  
• "I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it." - Abraham Lincoln
  
  
• "He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." - Unknown
  
  
• "Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of ther 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 Caras
  
  
• "First you learn a new language, profanity; and second you learn not to discipline your dogs when you're mad, and that's most of the time when you're training dogs." - Lou Schultz, trainer of Alaskan Huskies
  
  
• "Barking dogs don't bite people they don't know." – Unknown
  
  
• "I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive." - Gilda Radner
  
  
• "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." - Rita Rudner
  
  
• "We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made."
  M.Facklam
  
  
• Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail. - Josh Billings
  
  
• Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. - Mark Twain
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.
  - Clarence Day
  
  
• A dog is the only thing on earth that will love you more than you love yourself. - Josh Billings
  
  
• Animals are such agreeable friends--they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. - George Eliot
  
  
• A dog's best friend is his illiteracy. - Ogden Nash
  
  
• What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, what counts is the size of the fight in the dog.
  - Mark Twain
  
  
• There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog. - Konrad Z. Lorenz
  
  
• Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
  - Agnes Repplier
  
  
• Dogs look up to you. Cats look down on you. Give me a pig. He just looks you in the eye and treats you like an equal. - Winston Churchill
  
  
• The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic. - Henry Ward Beecher
  
  
• If dogs could talk, perhaps we'd find it just as hard to get along with them as we do people. - Karel Caprek
  
  
• To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. - Aldous Huxley
  
  
• Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.
  - Holbrook Jackson
  
  
• The more I see of the representatives of the people the more I admire my dogs. - Alphonse de Lamartine
  
  
• To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. - Aldous Huxley
  
  
• The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, the first to welcome, foremost to defend. - Lord Byron
  
  
• I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
  - August Strindberg
  
  
• A dog can express more with his tail in seconds than his owner can express with his tongue in hours. ~Author Unknown
  
  
• The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor. ~Margo Kaufman
  
  
• Labradors [are] lousy watchdogs. They usually bark when there is a stranger about, but it is an expression of unmitigated joy at the chance to meet somebody new, not a warning. ~Norman Strung
  
  
• I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for everyday. ~George Bernard Shaw
  We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. ~George Eliot
  
  
• "I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness." - Thomas McGuane (b. 1939) U.S. novelist
  
  
• "Living with a dog is easy - like living with an idealist." - H.L. Mencken (1880�6) U.S. journalist
  

Now this is how us doggy folk feel!!

When I am old...
I will wear soft gray sweatshirts...
and a bandana over my silver hair.....
and I will spend my social security checks on wine and my dogs.
I will sit in my house on my well-worn chair and listen to my dogs' breathing.
I will sneak out in the middle of a warm summer night
and take my dogs for a run, if my old bones will allow...

When people come to call,
I will smile and nod as I show them my dogs...
and talk of them and about them...
....the ones so beloved of the past
and the ones so beloved of today....
I will still work hard cleaning after them, mopping
and feeding them and whispering their names in a
soft loving way.

I will wear the gleaming sweat on my throat, like a
jewel and I will be an embarrassment to all...
especially my family...
who have not yet found the peace
in being free to have dogs as your best friends....

These friends who always wait, at any hour, for your footfall...
and eagerly jump to their feet out of a sound sleep, to
greet you as if you are a God.
With warm eyes full of adoring love and hope that you
will always stay,
I'll hug their big strong necks...
I'll kiss their dear sweet heads...
and whisper in their very special company....

I look in the Mirror...
and see I am getting old....
this is the kind of person I am...
and have always been.

Loving dogs is easy,
they are part of me.
Please accept me for who I am.
My dogs appreciate my presence in their lives...
they love my presence in their lives......
When I am old this will be important to me...
you will understand when you are old....
if you have dogs to love too.

------------ Author Unknown