"If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise." __Unknown

"If you talk with the animals, they will talk with you, and you will know each other. If you do not talk with them, you will not know them. And what you do not know you will fear. What one fears, one destroys." __ Chief Dan George

"The dog was created especially for children.  He is the God of frolic." __ Henry Ward Beecher

"Dogs teach us about faith, trust, and devotion. They teach us how to devotedly serve a higher master, how to attend and wait and how to let go of a drudge. But most of all, they teach us about the meaning and experience of unconditional love" __ Lama Surya Das, from the book "Dog is my Co-Pilot"

"If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them." __Phil Pastoret

"Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative." __ Mordecai Siegal

"Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog." __ Franklin P. Jones

"Dogs need to sniff the ground, it's how they keep abreast of current events.  The ground is a giant newspaper, containing all kinds of late breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued in the next yard." __ Dave Barry

"Most dog owners are at length able to teach themselves to obey their dogs." __ Robert Morley

"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

"We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare.  And in return, dogs give us their all.  It's the best deal man has ever made." __ M. Facklam

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." __ Will Rodgers 

"A dog has lots of friends because he wags his tail and not his tongue." __ Anonymous

"Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask not questions, they pass no criticisms." __ George Elliot

"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." __ Roger Caras

"Dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give us unconditional love.  For me they are the role model for being alive." __ Gilda Radner

"Dogs have given us their absolute all.  We are the center of their universe, we are the focus of their faith and trust." __ Roger Caras

"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." __ Roger Caras

"A dog is man's best friend, and woman's too." __ Anonymous

"No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich." __ Louis Sabin

"There is only one smartest dog in the world, and every boy has it." __ Anonymous

"Man has great power of speech, but the greater part thereof is empty and
deceitful.  The animals have little, but that little is useful and true; and
better is a small and certain thing than a great falsehood."
Leonardo Da Vinci

"Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane." __ Smiley Blanton

Consider an America congenial to the dog: it was a place of nuclear or extended families, of someone always home, of children (or pets) looked after during the day by a parent (or owner), of open spaces and family farms, of sticks and leftovers, of expansiveness and looking outward and being outside. . .
Consider an America conducive to the cat: it is a place of working men and women with not much time, of crowded cities, of apartment buildings with restrictive clauses, of day-care and take-out food, of self-absorption and modest horizons. __ Cullen Murphy

"Because animals are so prized by the Infinite Light for their ability to love and forgive both here and hereafter, the souls there have also told me that cruelty toward animals is a much greater offense to the Infinite Light than even cruelty toward another human being. Why? Because animals, at the hands of humans, are unable to defend themselves properly and must suffer the pain inflicted upon them in silence." "Take care of your pets----for their sake and for your life review's sake. They are the closest thing to God that we will ever find on the earth."
Quote from "Lessons from the Light" by psychic George Anderson

Ah! You should keep dogs-fine animals-sagacious creatures! __ Charles Dickens

"Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail." __ Henry Wheeler Shaw, humorist

"Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies." __ Gene Hill

"Of all the things I miss from veterinary practice, puppy breath is one of the most fond memories!" __ Dr. Tom Cat

"Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant." __ Unknown

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. __ Josh Billings

If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you ought to go home and examine your conscience. __ Woodrow Wilson

"In dog years, I'm dead." __ Unknown

"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." __ Dave Barry

"Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." __ Groucho Marx

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs." __ Aldous Huxley

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down." __ Robert Benchley

"Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives." __ Sue Murphy

"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves." __ August Strindberg

"No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation." __ Fran Lebowitz

"Ever consider what they 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!" __ Anne Tyler

"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult." __ Rita Rudner

"My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money." __ Joe Weinstein

"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

"You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets." __ Nora Ephron

"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful." __ Ann Landers

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." __ Robert A. Heinlein

"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him." __ Dereke Bruce, Taipei, Taiwan

"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face." __ Ben Williams

"When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem." __ Edward Abbey

"Cat's motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it." __ Unknown

"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does." __ Christopher Morley

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself." __ Josh Billings

"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

"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." __ Unknown

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man." __ Mark Twain

"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." __ John Steinbeck

"If there's one thing I have learned in life, it's this: Dogs and Pork rinds are not a good combination. __ Ted Cashion

Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of out pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit. He forgets neither friend nor foe-remembers, and with accuracy, both benefit and injury. He hath a share of man’s intelligence, but no share of a man’s falsehood. __ Sir Walter Scott

Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world’s worship. __ Ambrose Bierce

I am secretly afraid of animals-of all animals except dogs, and even some dogs. I think it is because of the us-ness in their eyes, with the underlying not-us-ness which belies it, and is so tragic a reminder of the lost age when we human beings branched off and left them: left the to eternal inarticulateness and slavery. "Why?" their eyes seem to ask us. __ Edith Wharton

‘Tis sweet to hear the watch dogs’ honest bark
Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home;
‘Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark
Our coming and look brighter when we come. __ Lord Byron

The dog alone, of all brute animals, has an affection upwards to man. __ Samual Taylor Coleridge

Love me, love my dog. __ St. Bernard

But, chief, myself I will enjoin,
Awake at duty’s call,
To show a love as prompt as thine
To him who gives me all. __ William Cowper

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all of an Englishman’s pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog. __ George Bernard Shaw

The 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

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him. __ Samuel Johnson

A dog starv’d at his master’s gate Predicts the ruin of the state. __ William Blake

Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a ride he sticks his head out of the window ? __ Unknown