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 there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
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.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.
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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