October 23, 2005
Man is a dogs ideal of what God should be.
–Holbrook Jackson 1874 English Journalist.
The more I see of the depressing stature of people, the more I admire my dogs.
–Alphonse de Lamartine 1790-1869 French Poet.
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
–Austin O’Malley 1858-1932 American Oculist.
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
–Alexander Pope 1688-1744 English Poet.
Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this–no dog exchanges bones with another.
–Adam Smith 1723-1790 Scottish Politician and Economist.
The dog that will follow everbody ain’t worth a curse.
–Josh Billings.
If dogs could talk, perhaps we’d find it just as hard to get along with them as we do people.
–Karel Capek 1890-1938 Czech Journalist.
Dogs are lousy poker players. When the get a good hand they wag their tails.
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The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
–Madame de Stael 1766-1817 French social leader.
When a man’s dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama.
–Mark Twain.
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
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.
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, “The first to welcome, foremost to defend.”
–Lord Byron, an epitaph for his dog Boatswain.
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
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
Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.
–Napoleon Bonaparte
Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.
–Mordecai Siegal, Contemporary Writer
Being patted is what it is all about.
–Roger Caras.
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. 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.
–Milan Kundera
They are better than human beings, because they know but do not tell.
–Emily Dickenson
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