• "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
• They say the dog is man's best friend. I don't believe that. How many of your friends have you neutered?
~ Larry Reeb
• Don't make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans, or they'll treat you like dogs.
~ Martha Scott
• Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.
~ Mordecai Siegal, Contemporary Writer
• Men cannot think like dogs.... [There exists] a sharp difference in the mental capacity of humans and canines. For example, a human who is given an intricate problem will spend all day trying to solve it, but a canine will have the sense to give up and do something else instead. ~Corey Ford
• Understanding your dog and knowing how to control him, develop his potentials, and resolve behavior problems, emotional conflicts and frustrations are no less essential than love and respect. ~Michael W. Fox
• If you can resist treating a rich friend better than a poor friend,
If you can face the world without lies and deceit,
If you can say honestly that deep in your heart you have no prejudice against creed, color, religion or politics,
Then, my friend, you are almost as good as your dog.
• If you can start the day without caffeine,
If you can get going without pep pills,
If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it,
If you can conquer the world tension without medical help,
If you can relax without liquor,
If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,
Then, my friend, you are almost as good as your dog.
• The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more than fidelity, consolation, and companionship. They offer comedy, irony, wit, and a wealth of anecdotes, the "shaggy dog stories" and "stupid pet tricks" that are commonplace pleasures of life. They offer, if we are wise enough or simple enough to take it, a model for what it means to give your heart with little thought of return.
• Both powerfully imaginary and comfortingly real, dogs act as mirrors for our own beliefs about what would constitute a truly humane society. Perhaps it is not too late for them to teach us some new tricks.
~Marjorie Garber
• A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life. ~Bob Barker
• Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity. ~Napoleon Bonaparte, after being saved by a Newfoundland after slipping on his ship and falling overboard. He did not know how to swim, and was kept above water by the dog until he could be rescued.
• If I had a dog I would not feel so lonely, but I suppose that is asking for too much. ~Eva Braun
• For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog. ~Roger Caras, president emeritus, ASPCA
• We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs. ~Roger Caras, A Celebration of Dogs
• I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them. ~Frances P. Cobbe, The Confessions of a Lost Dog
• The dog has no ambition, no self-interest, no desire for vengeance, no fear other than that of displeasing. ~Count of Buffon
• With eye upraised his master's look to scan,
The joy, the solace, and the aid of man:
The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend,
The only creature faithful to the end. ~George Crabbe
• “If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.”
• It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
• Living with animals can be a wonderful experience, especially if we choose to learn the valuable lessons animals teach through their natural enthusiasm, grace, resourcefulness, affection and forgiveness.
— Richard H. Pitcairn
• Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blending and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is sting less indeed, and as beautiful as life. ---John Muir
• I talk to him when I'm lonesome like; and I'm sure he understands. When he looks at me so attentively, and gently licks my hands; then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes, but I never say naught thereat. For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that. ~W. Dayton Wedgefarth
• With the exception of women, there is nothing on earth so agreeable or necessary to the comfort of man as the dog. ~Edward Jesse, Anecdote of Dogs
• The dog is a yes-animal, very popular with people who can't afford to keep a yes-man. ~Robertson Davies
• Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. ~Max Eastman, Enjoyment of Laughter
• My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am. ~Author Unknown
• If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one. ~Andy Rooney
• A dog is not "almost human" and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such. ~John Holmes
• If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around. ~Will Rogers
• To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. ~Aldous Huxley
• They 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
• The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog. ~Ambrose Bierce
• A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk. ~O.A. Battista
• Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man, without his Vices. This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the Memory of Boatswain, a Dog. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog"
• The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic. ~Henry Ward Beecher
• The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
• A man may smile and bid you hail
Yet wish you to the devil;
But when a good dog wags his tail,
You know he's on the level.
~Author Unknown
• No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses. ~Herman Melville, Redburn. His First Voyage, 1849
• No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. ~Christopher Morley
• If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater... suggest that he wear a tail. ~Fran Lebowitz
• I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. ~Author Unknown
• A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. ~Robert Benchley
• You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself that my father bought me. They are better than human beings, because they know but do not tell. ~Emily Dickinson
• There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog. ~Konrad Lorenz
• If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. ~Woodrow Wilson
• Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger. ~Albert Payson Terhune
• You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
• To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace. ~Milan Kundera
• When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. ~Edward Abbey
• I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. ~Will Rogers
• Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience. ~Jon Winokur
• Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other. ~Robert Benchley
• They are better than human beings, because they know but do not tell.
~ Emily Dickenson
• "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.
• "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
• 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
• Understanding your dog and knowing how to control him, develop his potentials, and resolve behavior problems, emotional conflicts and frustrations are no less essential than love and respect. -Michael W. Fox
• Barking dogs don't bite, but they themselves don't know it. -Sholom Aleichem
• A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life. -Bob Barker
• If you would understand this secret, you must first understand the distinction between training an animal and educating one. Trained animals are relatively easy to turn out. All that is required is a book of instructions, a certain amount of bluff and bluster, something to use for threatening and punishing purposes, and of course the animal. Educating an animal, on the other hand, demands keen intelligence, integrity, imagination, and the gentle touch, mentally, vocally, and physically. -J. Allen Boone, Kinship with All Life
• An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. -Martin Buber
• Study hard and you might grow up to be President. But let's face it: Even then, you'll never make as much money as your dog. George Bush, to a graduating class, referring to Millie, his dog, who earned $889,176 in book royalties
• All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler
• 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, Higgledy-Piggledy
• A dog is a gift from up above, to show us and remind us of unconditional love. They are companions for life, dependable and true...with unwavering loyalty, and forgiveness towards you. They have a passion for life, with an undying commitment that’s true. They are happy and eager with a zest for life...it’s like a constant reminder of what life should be like. How ironic it is or is it just odd that the reflection of the word dog simply spells God. -E. Anthony Cass
• Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness. -Jean Cocteau
• There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around. -Dick Dale
• Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with dropping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master. -Charles Darwin
• A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way. -Mary Carolyn Davies
• I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source. -Doris Day
• I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby. -Aaron Eckhart
• 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
• I think God will have prepared everything for our perfect happiness. If it takes my dog being there [in Heaven], I believe he'll be there. -Rev. Billy Graham
• Every time I told my cocker spaniel, Taffy, my very first dog, that we were going for a walk, she would launch into a celebratory dance that ended with her racing around the room, always clockwise, and faster and faster, as if her joy could not be possibly contained. Even as a young boy I knew that hardly any creature could express joy so vividly as a dog. -Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
• Of all the animals, surely the dog is the only one that really shares our life, helps in our work, and has a place in our recreation. It is the only one that becomes so fond of us that sometimes it cannot go on living after its master dies. -Fernand Mercy
• Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. -Alfred A. Montapert
• People who keep dogs live longer on average than those who do not. This is not some kind of pro-canine campaigning fantasy. It is a simple medical fact that the calming influence of the company of a friendly pet animal reduces blood pressure and therefore the risk of heart attack. -Desmond Morris
• Let's examine the dog mind: Every time you come home, he thinks it's amazing. He can't believe that you've accomplished this again. You walk in the door. The joy of it almost kills him. "He's back again! It's that guy! It's that guy!" -Jerry Seinfeld
• The tree can teach you forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all, irrespective of age, sex or religion, nationality or status. It helps with fruit and shade even to the foe who lays his axe on its trunk! The dog can teach you a lesson in Faith, Self-less service and the process of Dedication. -Sri Sathya Sai Baba
• Getting a dog is like getting married. It teaches you to be less self-centered, to accept sudden, surprising outbursts of affection, and not to be upset by a few scratches on your car. -Will Stanton
