Man's Best Friend Home Index * - A dog has the soul of a philosopher. - Plato * - A dog is not almost human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such. - John Holmes * - A dog is the only thing on earth that will love you more than you love yourself. - Josh Billings * - A dog's best friend is his illiteracy. - Ogden Nash * - Animals are such agreeable friends--they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. - George Eliot * - Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. - Steve Bluestone * - Dogs are not our whole lives, but they make our lives whole. - Roger Caras * - Dogs come when they are called. Cats take a message and get back to you. - Mary Bly * - Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves. - Clarence Day * - Dogs look up to you. Cats look down on you. Give me a pig. He just looks you in the eye and treats you like an equal. - Winston Churchill * - Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. - Ann Landers * - Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. - Mark Twain * - I bought a dog the other day... I named him Stay. It's fun to call him... "Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!" He went insane. Now he just ignores me and keeps typing. - Steven Wright * - I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. - August Strindberg * - If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one. - Andrew A. Rooney * - If dogs could talk, perhaps we'd find it just as hard to get along with them as we do people. - Karel Caprek * - If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater. . . suggest that he wear a tail. - Fran Lebowitz * - If you can't decide between a Shepherd, a Setter, or a Poodle, get them all....adopt a mutt! - ASPCA * - If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. - Mark Twain * - If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them. - Phil Pastoret * - It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort- of attached to it. - Eeyore * - Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be. - Holbrook Jackson * - Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail. - Josh Billings * - Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. - Agnes Repplier * - Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job. - Franklin P. Jones * - The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic. - Henry Ward Beecher * - The greatest 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. - Samuel Butler * - The more I see of man, the better I like dogs. - Madame Roland * - The more I see of the representatives of the people the more I admire my dogs. - Alphonse de Lamartine * - There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog. - Konrad Z. Lorenz * - There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. - Ben Williams * - There is only one smartest dog in the world, and every boy has it. - Louis Sabin * - To err is human, to forgive canine. - Anonymous * - To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. - Aldous Huxley * - What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, what counts is the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain * - The reason dogs have so many friends is because they wag their tails instead of their tongues. - Unknown * - When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism! - David Starr Jordan * - Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies. - Gene Hill * - A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. --Robert Benchley * - Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives. --Sue Murphy * - Ever consider what they must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul--chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth! --Anne Tyler * - If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise --Unknown * - In dog years, I'm dead. --Unknown * - My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money. --Joe Weinstein * - No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. - Fran Lebowitz * - Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant. --Unknown * - To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. --Aldous Huxley * - Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies. --Gene Hill |