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I am not your dog, but if every time you saw me, you gave me a backrub, I would run to greet you, too.
Sep 29, 2025
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.
A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.
Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.
Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.
I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.
Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend.
There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful 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.
Every dog must have his day.
If there is a heaven, it's certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it would take more than an archangel to detangle them.
I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.
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.
Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.
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.
Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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.
Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!
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.
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
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.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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.
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?
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.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.