"The more I see of men the more I like dogs." - Madame de Stael 1766-1817
"Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." - Mark Twain.
"A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog." - Edward Noyes Westcott 1846-1898
"The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other." - Josh Billings.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of." – Ogden Nash
"Both humans and dogs love to play well in adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience." - John Winokur, American Writer
"Oh, what is the matter with poor Puggy-Wug? Pet him and kiss him and give him a hug. Run and fetch him a suitable drug. Wrap him up tenderly all in a rug. That is the way to cure Puggy-Wug." – Winston Churchill, on his daughter Mary's pet pug.
"I know that dogs are pack animals, but it is difficult to imagine a pack of standard poodles...and if there was such a thing as a pack of standard poodles, where would they rove to? Bloomingdale's?" – Yvonne Clifford, American actress
"The great pleasure of a dog is that you make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, he will make a fool of himself too." - Samuel Butler
"The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor." – Margot Kaufman, American writer
"Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book; inside of a dog, it is very dark." - Groucho Marx.
"My little dog -- a heartbeat at my feet." - Edith Wharton.
"She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place." - Lloyd Alexander
"A good dog never dies; he always stays; he walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near, his head is within our hand in his old way." - Mary Carolyn Davies
"Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads." - Harry S. Truman
"God ... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better." - Rainer Maria Rilke
"If a dog's prayers were answered, bones would rain from the sky." - Old Proverb
"A dog is like an eternal Peter Pan, a child who never grows old and who therefore is always available to love and be loved." – Aaron Katcher, American Educator and Psychiatrist
"Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend." - Corey Ford, American writer
"What kind of life a dog... acquires, I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete: one sees little but legs." - E.V. Lucas, English writer
"My dog can bark like a Congressman, fetch like an aide, beg like a press secretary, and play dead like a receptionist when the phone rings." - Gerold Solomon, US Congressman
Compiled by Bob Snare
