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One reason a dog is such a comfort
When you are downcast
Is that he doesn't ask to know why.
--Anonymous
A dog can express more with his tail in minutes, than his owner can express with his tongue in hours.
--Anonymous
I explained it to St. Peter,
I’d rather stay here
Outside the pearly gate.
I won’t be a nuisance,
I won’t even bark,
I’ll be very patient and wait,
I’ll be here, chewing on a celestial bone,
No matter how long you may be.
I’d miss you so much, if I went in alone,
It wouldn’t be heaven for me.
--Anonymous
When a dog wags his tail and barks at the same time, how do you know which end to believe?
--Anonymous
A watchdog is a dog kept to guard your home, usually by sleeping where a burglar would awaken the household by falling over him.
--Anonymous
Every dog isn’t a growler, and every growler isn’t a dog.
--Anonymous
A dog’s bark may be worse than his bite, but everyone prefers his bark.
--Anonymous
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man without his vices.
-- Lord Byron, epitaph to his Newfoundland dog, Boatswain
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
To his dog, every man is a Napoleon, hence the constant popularity of dogs.
-- Aldous Huxley
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
Life is like a dogseld team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard
Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.
-- Mordecai Siegal
Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
-- Henry Wheeler Shaw
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
-- Chuang-tzu
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; and inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx
Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
-- Snoopy
Cats are smarter than dogs. You cannot get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
-- Jeff Valdez
Cat's motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it.
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
No heaven can heaven be, if my dog's not there to welcome me.
Whoever said you can't buy happiness, forgot about puppies.
-- Gene Hill
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
-- Ann Landers
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
-- Ben Williams
Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant.
Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.
-- Sue Murphy
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.
-- Derke Bruce
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
-- Christopher Morley
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
-- Andy Rooney
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
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
You think there will not be dogs in heaven? I tell you they will be there before any of us.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
Histories are more full of the examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
-- Alexander Pope
The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.
-- Jeanne-Marie Roland
The great please of a dog is that you can make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, he will make a fool of himself.
-- Samuel Butler