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

Folks will know how large your soul is,
By the way you treat a dog!
- Charles F. Doran

Mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun.
- Noël Coward

Thou call'st me dog before thou hadst a cause,
But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.
- William Shakespeare

He may be a dog, but don't tell me he doesn't have a real grip on life - Kendall Hailey

But was there ever a dog that praised his fleas? - William Butler Yeats

The biggest dog has been a pup - Joaquin Miller

The old dog barks backward without getting up.
I can remember when he was a pup.
- Robert Frost

There are three faithful friends-an old wife, an old dog, and ready money - Ben Franklin

It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks...Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him - John Galsworthy

You can't keep a good man down--or an over-affectionate dog - Anonymous

If there is no  heaven for dogs, then I want to go where they go when I die - Anonymous

The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls  - Anatole France

I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and wee wistful sadness and existential angst when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies - Merrill Markoe

Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads - Harry S. Truman

The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two - Maurice Maeterlinck

If your dog doesn't like someone, you probably shouldn't either - Anonymous

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me - William Shakespeare

Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience - Jon Winokur

A piece of grass a day keeps the vet away - Anonymous dog

The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage - Danish proverb

Dogs read the world through their noses and write their history in urine - J. R. Ackerley

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children - William Penn

Your dog is your only philosopher - Plato

Animals are such agreeable friends-they ask no questions, they pass no criticism - George Eliot

The small percentage of dogs that bite people is monumental proof that the dog is the most benign, forgiving creature on earth - W. R. Koehler

An earthly dog of the carriage breed;
Who, having failed of the modern speed,
Now asked asylum and I was stirred
To be the one so dog-preferred.
- Robert Frost

Keep hold of the bone and the dog will follow you - Irish proverb

When a man's dog turns against him it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma - Mark Twain

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs - Martha Scott

If you don't own a dog, at least once, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life - Roger Caras

Three things it is best to  avoid: a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise - Welch proverb