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 a man..."
Mark Twain

Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes.
Gene Hill

The poor dog, in life the the firmest friend,
The first to welcome, foremost to defend,
Whose honest heart is still the master's own,
Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone,
Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth,
Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth,
While man, vain insect hopes to be forgiven,
And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.

Lord Byron
Inscription on the monument of his Newfoundland dog, 1808

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face…
Bern Williams

"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."

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