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The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift - Konrad Lorenz
The worst sine towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be
indifferent to them. That is the essence of inhumanity - George Bernard Shaw
Great Men have great dogs - Otto von Bismarck
There is only one smartest dog in the world, and every boy has it - Anonymous
Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching - Rudyard Kipling
One dog barks at something, the rest bark
at him - Chinese proverb
To live long, eat like a cat, drink like a
dog - German proverb
Dogs got personality. Personality goes a
long way - Quentin Tarantino
Happiness is a warm puppy - Charles Schulz
"He leads a dog's life," people cry-But
why?...
All day you do exactly
as you feel;
You sleep before, and
after, every meal.
Things would be said
If I had so much bed!
- A. P. Herbert
Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs
that fall from their masters' table - Matthew 15:27
The average dog has one request to all
humankind. Love me - Helen Exley
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 is - Will Rogers
Artists like cats, soldiers like dogs -
Desmond Morris
Rambunctious, rambunctious, delinquent dogs
become angelic when sitting - Dr. Ian Dunbar
A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts
the ruin of the state - from
Auguries
of Innocence by William Blake
A dog in desperation will leap over a wall
- Chinese proverb
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
If a dog doesn't put you first where are
you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glance, your
wishes. It even shares your humour. This happens about the fifth year. It if
doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal - Enid Bagnold
Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary
Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship -
Ambrose Bierce
Every dog may have his day, but it's
puppies that have the weekends - Anonymous
Any time you think you have influence, try
ordering someone else's dog - The Cockle Bur
The dog is mentioned in the Bible eighteen
times-the cat not even once - W. E. Farbstein
I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell
me, sir, whose dog are you? - Alexander Pope
Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes
like never washed a dog - Franklin P. Jones
Corner a dog in a dead-end street and it
will turn and bite - Chinese proverb
...the first, the earliest delight, is
derived from physical contact. And physical contact it is that makes a pet
animal so precious to lonely people - Dilys Powell
To be without a dog is worse than being
without a song - Henry Beetle Hough
A collie has the brain of a man and the
ways of a woman - Scottish proverb
Of course what he most intensely dreams of
is being taken out on walks, and the more you are able to indulge him the more
will he adore you and the more all the latent beauty of his nature will come out
- Henry James
To a man the greatest blessing is
individual liberty, to a dog is the last word in despair - William Lyon Phelps
I am I because my little dog knows me but,
creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognizing
that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school -
Gertrude Stein
The censure of a dog is something no man
can stand - Christopher Morley
A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits,
and minus common sense - Agnes Repplier
When your hand is in the dog's mouth,
withdraw it gently - Irish proverb
No animal should ever jump up on the dining
room furniture unless absolutely certain the he can hold his own in the
conversation - Fran Lebowitz
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his
heaven, not man's - Mark Twain
Where are you going this nice fine day?"
(I said to the Puppy
as he went by).
'Up in the hills to
roll and play.'
"I'll come with you
Puppy, said I.
- A. A. Milne
A dog can express more with his tail than
his owner can express with his tongue in hours - Anonymous
Lap dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the
greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered
- Franz Grillparzer
Like a dog, he hunts in his dreams - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Who'll Rotect me? - Astro, The Jetsons
I'm
not going to call a dog "Dog." I suppose if she were a baby you'd cal her
"Person." - Warren Beaty
And in that town a dog was found.
As many dogs there be,
Both mongrel, puppy whelp, and
hound,
And curs of low degree.
- Oliver Goldsmith
Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on -
Colette
Our
dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity
with their uncritical homage - Agnes Repplier
The
gingham dog and the calico cat
Side by side on the table sat...
- Eugene Field
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the
whole brute creation... Edmund Burke
Dogs are us, only innocent - Cynthia Heimel
Oh,
the saddest of sights in a world of sin is a little lost pup with his tail
tucked in - Arthur Guiterman
Sign on bulletin board: "Puppies for sale: The only love money can buy"
It
is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses
his head and starts hamming it up - P. G. Wodehouse
If
your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise - Anonymous
I
started Early - Took my Dog -
And visited the Sea...
- Emily Dickinson
Every dog must have his day - Jonathan Swift
The
love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from
paradise - Milan Kundera
Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all
day - Mary Ann, age 4
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed
contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts -
John Steinbeck
No
one in your family will ever be as forgiving of your mistakes as your dog
- Susan Hyde
I
think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and
self-contained. Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the
mania of owning things - Walt Whitman
A
dog has one aim in life. To bestow his heart - J. R. Ackerley
You
own a dog; you feed a cat - Jim Fiebig
You've seen that look. The way a young painter looks at Rembrandt or
Titian. the way Liz Taylor looks at Richard Burton. The way Zsa Zsa looks
at mink. That's how a poodle looks at its master - Jacqueline Susann
Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and
sometimes for a man - George Jean Nathan
You
enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets -
Nora Ephron
In
order to keep a true perspective of ones' importance, everyone should have
a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him - Dereke Bruce
I
have given my pain a name and call it dog-It is every bit as faithful,
every bit as nosey and shameless, every bit as entertaining, every bit as
clever as any other dog-and I can boss it around and vent my bad moods on
it, just as others do with their dogs, servants, and wives - Friedrich
Nietzsche
No
matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog
makes you rich - Louis Sabin
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole - Roger Caras
Politics are not my concern...they impressed me as a dog's life without a
dog's decencies - Rudyard Kipling
Our
dog Tray's ever faithful;
Grief can not drive him away;
He is gentle, he is kind -
I shall never, never find
A better friend than old dog Tray!
- chorus of Old Dog
Tray, written by Stephen Collins Foster
You
can say any foolish 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
Better to be a dog in times of peace than a human being in times of
trouble - Chinese proverb
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and
get used to the idea - Robert A. Heinlein
What a dog! - Peg about Tramp, Lady and the Tramp (1955)
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
There is no question about this. I know too well his look of despair and
disapproval when I have just thought that he must be left at home - John
Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
In
life the firmest friend
The first to welcome, foremost to
defend,
Whose honest heart is still his
master's own
Who labors, fights, lives,
breathes for him alone.
- Lord Byron
By
and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find
themselves happier with a dog - Barbara Holland
The
noblest dog of all is the hot dog; it feeds the hand that bites it -
Laurence J. Peter
Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in
case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in
your ear - Dave Barry
There is no doubt that a dog is loyal. But does that mean we should
emulate him? After all, he is loyal to people, not to other dogs - Karl
Kraus
There are many who say that a dog has his day,
And a cat has a number of lives...
- Dylan Thomas
I
have heard the voice of a hound, just before daylight, while the stars
were shining, from over the woods and river, far in the horizon, when it
sounded as sweet and melodious as an instrument - Henry David Thoreau
She
saved for tomorrow. When she was asleep, the dog ate up her flour -
Punjabi proverb
Certes, they been lyk to houndes, for an hound whan he comth by the roser,
or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg
and make a contenaunce to pisse - Geoffrey Chaucer
Every dog is brave on his own doorstep - Irish proverb
My
best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness - George Eliot
The
one absolute, unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world-the
one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or
treacherous--is his dog - George Graham Vest
All
animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others - George
Orwell
The
more I see of the representatives of the people the more I admire my dogs
- Alphonse de Lamartine
A
reasonable amoutn o;fleas is good fer a dog--keeps him from broodin' over
bein' a dog, mebbe - Edward Noyes Westcott
Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes but they
haven't been true to themselves -Clarence Day
From the lowly perspective of a dog's eyes, everyone looks short -
Chinese proverb
A
dog's best friend is his illiteracy - Ogden Nash
The
greatness of a Nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way
animals are treated - Mahatma Gandhi
My goal in life is to be as good a person
as my dog thinks I am - Unknown
A dog believes you are what you think you
are - Jane Swan
There will always be a lost little dog
somewhere that will prevent me from being happy - Jean Anouilh
Old men simply need to touch
The brow of a dog,
To look into its eyes
To feel its lick
So that they may experience again
The freshness and joy of life.
- A Thousand Hounds, Merritt and
Barth
The shepherd is the brain behind the dog's
brain,
But his control of dog, like dog's
of sheep is never absolute-that's the beauty of it
- Cecil Day Lewis
In dog years, I'm dead - Anonymous
FOOVIE (fo' view) n. The ability of a dog
to inflict guilt from any angle in the room while he watches his master
eat - Rich Hall
You ain't nothin' but a hound dog - Elvis
A good dog does not block the road -
Chinese proverb
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 Christie
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him -
Henry David Thoreau
My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind,
So flewed, so sanded; and their
heads are hung
With ears that sweep away the
morning dew;
Crook-kneed, and dewlapped like
Thessalian bulls;
Slow in pursuit, but matched in
mouth like bells,
Each under each.
- William Shakespeare
He will kiss the hand that had no food to
offer, he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the
roughness of the world - George Graham Vest
Among God's
creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all
the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man - Andrés Segovia
Stick around any place long enough and
chances are you'll be taken for granted. Hang around for 20,000 years
wagging your tail and being man's best friend, and you'll be taken for
granted big time - Lynn Van Matre
The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a
baby brother-and they'll settle for a puppy every time - Winston Pendelton
Dogs aren't born knowing what or what not
to do; they only learn like children - Barbara Woodhouse
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