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.
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
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.
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
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.
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.
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.
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
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.
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
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