"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
~Gandhi
"A dog can only be a dog. But people can be anything."
--Angie Woods Dog Whisperer
"Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend."
~Corey Ford
"I like pigs. Dogs look up tp us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals" Sir Winston Churchhill
"I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons." Will Rogers
"Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx
"Ever consider what they 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
"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." Andy Rooney
"When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem." Edward Abbey
"A dog is the only thing on Earth that loves you more than he loves himself." Josh Billings
"The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people." Daniel Pinkwater, Author Train Your Dog, Damnit
"The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage." Danish Proverb
"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
"If you want to be liked, get a dog. The people you work with are not your friends." Deborah Norville
"Breed not a savage dog, nor permit a loose stairway." Talmud
"Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads." Harry S. Truman
"A dog has the soul of a philosopher." Plato
"A house without either a cat or a dog is the house of a scoundrel." Portuguese Proverb
"A hungry dog hunts best." Lee Trevino
"If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater. . . suggest that he wear a tail." - Fran Lebowitz
"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
"By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a "noble" animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward- you will never get her full confidence again." - Mark Twain
"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
"Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching that cannot lie." - Rudyard Kipling
"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
"The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, 'The first to welcome, foremost to defend.'" - Lord Byron, an epitaph for his dog Boatswain
"A dog is like an eternal Peter Pan, a child who never grows old and who therefore is always available to love and be loved." - Aaron Katcher, American Educator and Psychiatrist
"When a dog runs at you, whistle for him." - Henry David Thoreau
"If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of fun out of owning one." - Andy Rooney
"Breed not a savage dog, nor permit a loose stairway." - Talmud
"It is a terrible thing for an old lady to outlive her dogs." - Tennessee Williams
"In my day, we didn't have dogs or cats. All I had was Silver Beauty, my beloved paper clip." - Jennifer Hart, Arlington
"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
"Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this - one dog does not change a bone with another." - Adam Smith
"Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails." - Max Eatman
"Happiness is a warm puppy." - Charles Schultz
"Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." - Mark Twain
"It don't care whether I'm good enough. It don't care whether I snore or not. It don't care which God I pray to. There are only three things in this world with that kind of unconditional acceptance: Dogs, donuts, and money." - Danny DeVito
"Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more." - Agatha Cristie
"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'
"A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience." - Tom Clancy
"Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies." - Gene Hill
"When a man's dog turns against him it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama." Mark Twain
"The more people I meet the more I like my dog." - Unknown
"Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"In dog years I'm dead." - Unknown
"They are better than human beings because they know but do not tell." - Emily Dickenson
"In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog." - Edward Hoagland
"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 once decided not to date a guy because he wasn't excited to meet my dog. I mean, this was like not wanting to meet my mother." - Bonnie Schacter, Founder of the Single Pet Owner's Society Singles Group
"I've seen the look in a dog's eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt and I am coveinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts." John Steinbeck
"A cat sees us as the dogs...A cat sees himself as the human." - Unknown
"Life is like a dog sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes." - Lewis Grizzard
"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job." - Franklin P Jones
"The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien." - Plato
"Politics are not my concern... they impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies." - Rudyard Kipling
"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
"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
"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
"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
"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags it's tail it knocks over a chair." - Arnold Toynbee
"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 reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog." - E N Westcott
"If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already." Actual Twents: "At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene." Meaning:Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.
"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
