Dog Memorial Quotes

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

Letting Go, Dog, Stress

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Josh Billings

Love, Friendship, Dog

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What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Helen Keller

Love, Sympathy, Death

Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

Life, Dog, Pet

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The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master.

Ben Hur Lampman

Dog, Heart, Loss

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To call him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a tail, and barked, I admit he was, to all outward appearances. But to those who knew him well, he was a perfect gentleman.

Hermione Gingold

Dog, Loss, Perfect

Hermione Gingold (1958). “The world is square”

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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

Milan Kundera

Jealousy, Dog, Evil

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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 man.

Mark Twain

Funny, Inspiring, Thankful

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 16, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

Will Rogers

Cute, Death, Loyalty

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No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Christopher Morley

Dog, Appreciation, Silly

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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

John Galsworthy

Dog, Loss, Animal

John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.3602, Delphi Classics

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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Abraham Lincoln

Anniversary, Funny Sex, Humor

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There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

Bernard Williams

Happiness, Dog, Nature

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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

Dog, Silly, Men

Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

Mark Twain

Dog, Men, Animal

Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1960). “Mark Twain-Howells Letters: The Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910”, Belknap Press

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Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

Mary Elizabeth Frye

Death, Lost Love, Losing A Loved One

"Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" l. 15 (1932).

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When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there, I did not die.

Mary Elizabeth Frye

Uplifting, Morning, Stars

Mary Elizabeth Frye, “Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep”

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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

Dog, Nature, Animal

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Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

Roger Caras

Life, Dog, Sorry

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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

Anatole France

Love, Inspiring, Dog

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Love, Inspirational, Funny

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Andy Rooney

Inspirational, Funny, Dog

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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.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

Agnes Repplier

Dog, Heart, Animal

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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Alexander Pope

Loyalty, Dog, Silly

Alexander Pope (1737). “Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope: And Several of His Friends”, p.53

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Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Ann Landers

Dog, Witty, Cat

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