A Quote A Day Was Added

A man and his dog is a sacred relationship. What nature hath put together let no woman pull asunder - A. R. Gurney

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does - Christopher Morley

Sometimes when I get up in the morning, I feel very peculiar. I feel like I've just got to bite a cat! I feel like if I don't bite a cat before sundown, I'll go crazy! But then I just take a deep breath and forget about it. That's what is known as real maturity - Snoopy

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends - Alexander Pope

No animal I know of can consistently be more of a friend and companion than a dog - Stanley Leinwoll

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

Many dogs will give a greeting grin much like a human smile - Richard A Wolters

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

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job - Franklin P. Jones

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us - Robert Louis Stevenson

Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about little puppies - Gene Hill

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

Animals are good to think with - Claude Levi-Strauss

Living with a dog is easy - like living with an idealist - H. L. Mencken

Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog - Franklin P. Jones

You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark - Wallace Arnold

If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them - Phil Pastoret

Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this - one dog does not change a bone with another - Adam Smith

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 are the greatest hunters on earth! - Anne Tyler

An honest man is not the worse because a dog barks at him - Danish Proverb

Every dog is a lion at home - H. G. Bohn

Intelligent dogs rarely want to please people whom they do not respect - W. R. Koehler

There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog -Konrad Lorenz

If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around - Will Rogers

I have always thought of a dog lover as a dog that was in love with another dog - James Thurber

Dogs never lie about love - Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant - Anonymous

In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the dog - Toussenel

Of all the things I miss from veterinary practice, puppy breath is one of the most fond memories! - Dr. Tom Cat

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem - Edward Abbey

A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk - OA Battista

There are three things it is best to avoid: a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise - Welsh Proverb

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

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

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals - James Thurber

I love this little house because it offers, after dark, A Pause for rest, a rest for paws, A place to moor my bark - Arthur Guiterman

Ides of March by Andrew Wyeth

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

A good dog deserves a good home - proverb

With eye upraised, his master's voice 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

All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the lanthorn is the moon; I, the man in the moon; this thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog - William Shakespeare

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it - Abraham Lincoln

Portrait of Madame Hagen by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people - Daniel Pinkwater

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 our lives - Rita Rudner

If you would invest in friendship, purchase a dog - Le Baron Cooke

A dog's bark may be worse than his bit, but everyone prefers his bark - Anonymous

A loving friendship, formed over thousands of years, flourishes between dogs and human beings. Dogs have left the hunting pack of their ancestors and have become members of our human world - Celia Hadddon

A dog may be man's best friend, but child's best friend is a puppy - Anonymous

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

The greater love is a mother's; then comes a dog's; then a sweetheart's - Polish Proverb

The trees in Siberia are miles apart-that is why the dogs are so fast - Bob Hope

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is as true of men as of dogs - Eric Hoffer

It's no coincidence that man's best friend cannot talk - Anonymous

I cannot impress on my readers too strongly the necessity to be firm but kind to a puppy. His idea of your authority is forming, and if he knows you give in on the slightest whimper, you are whacked for life - Barbara Woodhouse

Man is dog's idea of what God should be - Holbrook Jackson

It's dogs that bite that do not show their teeth - Chinese Proverb

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