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"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened."
~ Anatole France
"My little dog -- a heartbeat at my feet."
~ Edith Wharton
"I think I could turn and live with animals, they are
so placid and self-contained,
I stand and look at them long and long."
~ Walt Whitman
"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face."
~ Ben Williams
A few weeks after my surgery, I went out to play catch with my golden retriever. When I bent over to pick up the ball, my prosthesis fell out. The dog snatched it, and I found myself chasing him down the road yelling "Hey, come back here with my breast!"
--Linda Ellerbee
"Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives."
~ Sue Murphy
"To err is human, to forgive, canine"
~ Anonymous
"The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic." ~
~ Henry Ward Beecher
"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole."
~ Roger Caras
"If I have any beliefs about immortality it is that certain dogs I know will go to heaven, and very very few people."
~ James Thurber
If you want to be liked, get a dog. The people you work with are not your friends.
--Deborah Norville
"Every boy should have two things: a dog, and a mother willing to let him have one"
~ Anonymous
"A dog has lots of friends because he wags his tail and not his tongue."
~ Anonymous
"The dog represents all that is best in man."
~ Etienne Charlet
"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
~ Ann Landers
"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."
~ Andrew A. Rooney
"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."
~ George Elliot
"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
"...he will be our friend for always and always and always."
~ Rudyard Kipling
"The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much."
~ Thornton Wilder
"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language."
~ Martin Buber
You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.
--Robert M. Pirsig Zen in the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
--Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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
Speak softly and own a big, mean Doberman.
--Dave Miliman
One reason the dog has so many friends: He wags his tail instead of his tongue.
--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
Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity
--Napoleon Bonaparte
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
--Aldous Leonard Huxley British writer
We named the DOG Indiana!
--Henry Jones, Sr. (Sean Connery) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

cave canum.(beware of the dog)
--Unknown
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
--Mark Twain
Ever consider what dogs must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul -- chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
--Anne Tyler
Beware of silent dogs and still waters.
--Portuguese Proverb
Some days you're the dog, and some days you're the hydrant.
--Unknown
Never trust a dog to watch your food.
--Patrick age 10 Advice from Kids
Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
--Mark Twain
You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!'
--Dave Barry
Artists like cats, soldiers like dogs.
--Desmond Morris
Its easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it.
--P. J. O'Rourke
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
--Robert A. Heinlein
"Our weaknesses are like dogs, you see. If we walk toward them, they will run away from us. But if we run away from them they'll chase us." Hugh Nibley (Of All Things, 2nd Ed, Deseret Book, SLC, 1993, page 185)

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
--Sir Winston Churchill
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow.
--Jeff Valdez
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.
--Mary Bly
A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
--Plato
To a dog the whole world is a smell
--Unknown
Dogs wait for us faithfully
--Marcus Tullius Cicero
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
--Roger Caras
Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.
--John Osborne