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"Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit,
you would stay out and your dog would go in."
- Mark Twain
"Man is a dog's idea of what God should be."
- Holbrook Jackson
"The average dog is a nicer person than the average
person."
- Andrew A. Rooney
"To his dog, every man is King;
hence the constant popularity of dogs."
- Aldous Huxley
"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain
dogs I
have known will go to heaven, and very, very few
persons."
- James Thurber
"Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god
and a dog to a man."
- Ambrose Bierce
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend:
and inside a dog, it's too dark to read."
- Groucho Marx
"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
"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in
the face,
you should go home and examine your conscience."
- Woodrow Wilson
"The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people
they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How,
then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning
since it defines what's its own and what's alien."
- Plato
"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."
- Samuel Butler
"If you take a dog which is starving and feed him and make
him prosperous, that dog will not bite you. This is the
primary difference between a dog and a man."
- Mark Twain
"Liberals are like dogs:
The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is
true to himself.
(It may not be as cozy an attitude as it sounds.)
He greets with enthusiasm the fact of the journey,
as a dog greets a man’s invitation to take a walk.
And he acts in the dog’s way too, swinging wide, racing
ahead, doubling back,
covering many miles of territory that the man never
traverses,
all in the spirit of inquiry and the zest for truth.
He leaves a crazy trail, but he ranges far beyond the
genteel old party he walks with
and he is usually in a better position to discover a
skunk."
- E. B. White
"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies,
quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love
and always have to mix love and hate."
- Sigmund Freud
"No man can be condemed for owning a dog.
As long as he has a dog, he has a friend;
and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has."
- Will Rogers
"Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be
companion
of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a
nature
noble and incapable of deceit."
- Sir Walter Scott
"The dog is man's best friend.
He has a tail on one end.
Up in front he has teeth.
And four legs underneath."
- Ogden Nash - An Introduction to Dogs
"If you can't decide between a Shepherd, a Setter or a
Poodle,
get them all ... adopt a mutt!"
- ASPCA
"To err is human:To forgive, canine."
- Anonymous
"I talk to him when I'm lonesome like,
and I'm sure he understands.
When he looks at me so attentively,
and gently licks my hands;
Then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes,
but I never say naught thereat,
For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes,
but never a friend like that!"
- W. Dayton Wedgefarth
"In the world which we know, among the different and
primitive
geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several
species,
there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever
gave a
thought to the presence of man."
- Maurice Maeterlinck - 'Our Friend, The Dog'
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