There is nothing truer in this world than the love of a good dog.
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.
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.
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.
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
A good dog deserves a good bone.
A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology.
You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
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.
All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.
The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master.
Get a good dog. We have not picked up food in the kitchen in 15 years.
And gold has no name, it licks the hand of anyone who has it: good dog!
I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.
No man should kill himself as long as he can be of the least use to anybody, and if you cannot find some person that you are willing to do something for, find a good dog and take care of him. You have no idea how much better you will feel.
A man may smile and bid you hail Yet wish you to the devil; But when a good dog wags his tail, You know he's on the level.
Good dog! Nice fetch!" "He wasn't fetching." "Bring her here, boy. Good job!" The dog looked from Zack to me. "I've been training him," Zack said. "Up till now he's brought home only dead rabbits, but I guess he's finally getting the hang of it.
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, “good book,” as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others.
When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral, a good dog is tame and affectionate, and a good meal is tasty and nourishing. But a good man is not tasty and nourishing, except to a cannibal; a good dog is not wise and moral, except in cartoons, and a good meal is not tame and affectionate, unless it's alive as you eat it.
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