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His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears.
Sep 30, 2025
Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.
Hardly any animal can look as deeply disappointed as a dog to whom one says "no."
The more boys I meet the more I love my dog.
The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.
Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane.
A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.
If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.
If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.
Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend.
Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.
Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.
No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich.
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.
Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
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.
Ever consider what pets 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!
Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.
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.
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
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.
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.
If aliens are watching us through telescopes, they're going to think the dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge?
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.
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
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.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.