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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.
-Anon.
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Who loves me will love my dog also.
A proverb in the time of Saint Bernard
-Proverb
Sermo Primus
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A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Another version:
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
-Robert Benchley
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Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that a child cannot do much harm one way or another.
-Robert Benchley
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The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
-Warren Bennis
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Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane.
-Smiley Blanton
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A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat
-Roy Blount, Jr.
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The more I see of men, the more I like dogs.
-Clara Bow
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You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.
-Jean De La Bruyere
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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
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Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
-Roger Caras
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If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.
-Roger Caras
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The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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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
The Coming of Riquet
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In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
-Edward Hoagland
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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. This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery, if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just Tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog.
-John Cam Hobhouse
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
-Fran Lebowitz
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How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
-Abraham Lincoln
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The love of a dog for his master is notorious; as an old writer quaintly says, A dog is the only thing on this earth that luvs you more than he luvs himself.
-Dr. Lauder Lindsay
in his Physiology of Mind in the Lower Animals, p. 38., "Journal of Mental Science", April, 1871
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Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.
-Thomas Mann
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The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no precise name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.
-Thomas Mann
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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
-Groucho Marx
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The Belief that man is outfitted with an immortal soul, differing altogether from the engines which operate the lower animals, is ridiculously unjust to them. The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man
-H. L. Mencken
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No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
-Christopher Morley
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Books about Dogs
