| They are better than human beings, because they know but do not tell. -Emily Dickenson |
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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, American Educator and Psychiatrist
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| When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama. -Mark Twain |
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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. -Aldous Huxley
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| "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 |
| "If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience." Woodrow Wilson |
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Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. -Josh Billings
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
-Mark Twain
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Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity. -Napoleon Bonaparte
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, "The first to welcome, foremost to defend."
-Lord Byron, an epitaph for his dog Boatswain |
| Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. -Alexander Pope 1688-1744 English Poet |
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Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. -Mark Twain
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| I talk to him when I'm lonesome like; and I'm sure he understands. When he looks at me so attentively, and gently licks my hands; then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes, but I never say naught thereat. For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that. -W. Dayton Wedgefarth |
"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 |
"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does."
--Christopher Morley |
| "Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of ther universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made." -Roger Caras |
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Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. -Corey Ford
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A dog is the only thing on this earth that loves you more than he loves himself. -Josh Billings
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The great 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, Notebooks, 1912
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Man is a dog's idea of what God should be. -Holbrook Jackson
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| 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 |
| "All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers is contained in the dog." -Kafka |
| One reason a dog is such a lovable creature is his tail wags instead of his tongue. -Author Unknown |
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