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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
To Err is Human
To Forgive Canine
- Dog proverb
Dogs don't mind
being photographed in compromising situations - Elliott Erwitt
A man and his dog
goes so well with home and castle - Ian Niall
Brothers and
Sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
- Rudyard Kipling, The Power of the Dog
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
Dogs
look up to you. Cats look down on you. Give me a pig. He just looks you in the
eye and treats you like an equal - Winston Churchill
To be
followed home by a stray dog is a sign of impending wealth - Chinese proverb
We had
to get rid of the kids--one of the dogs was allergic - Anonymous
If dogs
could talk, perhaps we'd find it just as hard to get along with them as we do
people - Karel Capek
The man
who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business
than any other - Josh Billings
Therefore to this dog I will I,
Tenderly not scornfully,
Render praise and favour!
With my hand upon his head.
Is my benediction said
Therefore, and for ever
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The
more people I meet, the more I like my dog - Anonymous
The cat
will mew, and dog will have his day - William Shakespeare
Out of
a dog's mouth will never come ivory tusks - Chinese proverb
The
other day I saw two dogs walk over to a parking meter. One of them says to
the other, "How do you like that? Pay toilets!" - Dave Starr
A dog
has a share in man's intelligence, but no share in his falsehood - Sir Walter
Scott
They
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
The dog
wags its tail only at living things.
A tail wag, the equivalent of a human smile,
is bestowed upon people, dogs , cats, squirrels,
even mice and butterflies - but no lifeless
things. A dog won't wag its tail to its dinner
or to a bed, card, stick, or even a bone -
- Jean Craighead George
A dog
is prose, a cat is a poem - Jean Burden
We are
to listen to a dog until we discover what is needed instead of imposing
ourselves in the name of training - The Monks of New Skete
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
Did you smooch your pooch today? - Bob
Anderson
They
say the dog is man's best friend. I don't believe that. How many of your friends
have your neutered? - Larry Reeb
There's
facts about dogs, and there's opinions about them. The dogs have the facts, and
the humans have the opinions. If you want facts about dogs, always get them
straight from the dog. If you want opinions, get them from humans - J. Allen
Boone
...people
who keep dogs (or cats, for that matter)
live longer on average than those who do not. This is not some kind of
pro-canine campaigning fantasy. It is the simple medical fact that the
calming influence of the company of a friendly pet animal reduces blood pressure
and therefore the risk of heart attack - Desmond Morris
Never
repeat a command. Most dogs are not deaf; they just choose not to listen -
Connie Jankowski
The
fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing
ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men - Emile Zola
He that would hang his dog gives out
first that he is mad - English proverb
The
poor dog, in life the firmest friend,
The first to welcome, foremost to defend
- Lord Byron
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
There
are no one-night stands with a dog. Once you let your pet into your bed, it's
hard to get him out - Diana Delmar
You may
have a dog that won't sit up, roll over or even cook breakfast, not because he's
too stupid to learn how but because he's too smart to bother - Rick Horowitz
(My
dog) can bark like a congressman, fetch like an aide, beg like a press secretary
and play dead like a receptionist when the phone rings - Gerald B. H. Solomon,
U.S. Congressman
My dog is worried about the economy
because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. That's almost $21.00 in dog money -Joe
Weinstein
If a
dog will not come to you having looked you in the face, you should go home and
examine your conscience - Woodrow Wilson
The dog
is all things to all men - Ian Niall
Puppies
are nature's way for feeling unloved...plus numerous other ailments of life -
Richard Allan Palm
If a
picture wasn't going very well,
I'd put a puppy dog in it
- Norman Rockwell
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
A leaky
faucet, a barking dog -- those are things you tolerate - Candace Gingrich
You
never realize a dog is a man's best friend until you start betting on horses -
Anonymous
Dogs
are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute
creation - Edmund Burke
If a
dog's prayers were answered, bones would fall from the sky - Proverb
To call
him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, thought inasmuch as he had four legs,
a tail, and barked, I admit he was, to all outward appearances. But to those of
us who knew him well, he was a perfect gentleman - Hermione Gingold
The
most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog - Ambrose Bierce
When
one dog barks at a shadow, a hundred bark at the sound - Chinese proverb
Better
not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when
you're coming home his face might burn up - Jack Handy
A
well-trained dog will make no attempt to share your lunch. He will just make you
feel so guilty that you cannot enjoy it - Helen Thompson
A puppy
plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates - Josh Billings
'Tis
sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark
Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home;
'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark
Our coming, and look brighter when we come
- Lord Byron
Where
are the dogs going? you people who pay little attention ask. They are going
about their business. And they are very punctilious, without wallets,
notes...and without briefcases - Charles Baudelaire
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