"All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers
is contained in the dog."
~ Franz Kafka
"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can
judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." ~ Immanuel Kant
"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
"Old dogs, like old shoes, are comfortable. They might be a bit out of shape
and a little worn around the edges, but they fit well."
~ Bonnie Wilcox, Old Dogs, Old Friends
"Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies."
~ Gene Hill
"The more people I meet the more I like my dog"
~ Unknown
"In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be
semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming
partly a dog."
~ Edward Hoagland
"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
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
"I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical
paintings they can show me in the world."
~ Samuel Johnson
"To his dog, every man is King; hence the constant popularity of dogs."
~ Aldous Huxley
"No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes
you rich."
~ Louis Sabin
"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
"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog
does."
~ Christopher Morley
"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."
~ Andrew A. Rooney
"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
"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
"It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because
it is dumb to his dull perceptions."
~ Mark Twain
"Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog
would go in."
~ Mark Twain
"The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's."
~ Mark Twain, Letter to W. D. Howells, 4/2/1899
"There is an Indian legend which says when a human dies there is a bridge they
must cross to enter into heaven. At the head of that bridge waits every animal
that human encountered during their lifetime. The animals, based upon what they
know of this person, decide which humans may cross the bridge -- and which are
turned away."
~ Unknown
"The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic."
~ Henry Ward Beecher
"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
"The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's."
~ Polish Proverb
"Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in
case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your
ear."
~ Dave Barry
"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends."
~ Alexander Pope
"I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons."
~ Will Rogers
"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."
~ Will Rogers
"Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail."
~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
"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
"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known
will go to heaven, and very, very few persons."
~ James Thurber
"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
"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 in their
object-relations."
~ Sigmund Freud
"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole."
~ Roger Caras
"Pomeranians speak only to Poodles, and Poodles speak only to God."
~ Charles Kuralt on 48 Hours
"If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin'
somebody else's dog around."
~ Cowboy Wisdom
"When the Man waked up he said,
'What is Wild Dog doing here?'
And the Woman said,
'His name is not Wild Dog any more,
but the First Friend,
because he will be our friend
for always and always and always.'"
~ Rudyard Kipling
"My dog is usually pleased with what I do, because she is not infected with the
concept of what I 'should' be doing."
~ Lonzo Idolswine
"I used to look at [my dog] Smokey and think, 'If you were a little smarter you
could tell me what you were thinking,' and he'd look at me like he was saying,
'If you were a little smarter, I wouldn't have to.'"
~ Fred Jungclaus
"A house without either a cat or a dog is the house of a scoundrel."
~ Portuguese Proverb
"Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses."
~ Elizabeth Taylor
"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself."
~ Josh Billings
"I am I because my little dog knows me"
~ Gertrude Stein
"My goal in life is to become as wonderful as my dog thinks I am."
~ Toby & Eileen Green
"Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that
you are wonderful."
~ Ann Landers
"Qui me amat, amet et canem meum." ("Love me, love my dog.")
~ St. Bernard, A.D. 1150, "Sermo Primus"
"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long
before any of us."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
"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
"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
"Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures
and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit."
~ Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman
"I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we
might be if we weren't certain we knew better."
~ George Bird Evans, Troubles with Bird Dogs
"Even the tiniest Poodle or Chihuahua is still a wolf at heart."
~ Dorothy Hinshaw Patent, Dogs: The Wolf Within
"If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one."
~ Andy Rooney
"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 err is human, to forgive, canine."
~ Unknown
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size
of the fight in the dog."
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Animals are such agreeable friends--they ask no questions; they pass no
criticisms."
~ George Eliot
"I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree."
~ Dana Burnet
"My little dog -- a heartbeat at my feet."
~ Edith Wharton
"Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall
Street and the railroads."
~ Harry S. Truman
"The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists
through the understanding of dogs."
~ Nietzche
"If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also."
~ Russian Proverb
"One dog barks at something; the rest bark at him."
~ Chinese Proverb
"My music is best understood by children and animals."
~ Igor Stravinsky
"Her life was okay. Sometimes she wished she were sleeping with the right man
instead of with her dog, but she never felt she was sleeping with the wrong
dog."
~ Change of Life by Judith Collas
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