A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
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.
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
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.
No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
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.
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their 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.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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.
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.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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.
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