When the Man waked up he said,
‘What is Wild Dog doing here?’
And the Woman said,
‘His name is not Wild Dog any more,
but the First Friend,
because he will be our friend
for always and always and always.
– Rudyard Kipling
I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. – Abraham Lincoln
A dog is the only thing on earth that will love you more than you love yourself. – Josh Billings
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 in their object-relations. – Sigmund Freud
No man can be condemned 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
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. – Robert Louis Stevenson
All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers is contained in the dog. – Kafka
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. – Agnes Repplier
The greatest 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
I am I because my little dog knows me. – Gertrude Stein
Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun! – Groucho Marx
His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, referring to her cocker spaniel, Flush
God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there. – Billy Graham
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. – Andy Rooney
To err is human, to forgive, canine. – 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
Yesterday I was a dog. Today I’m a dog. Tomorrow I’ll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There’s so little hope for advancement. – Snoopy
The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs. – Nietzche
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, the first to welcome, foremost to defend. – Lord Byron
A species so intimately involved with our own, which has shared our life since time immemorial. – Alfred Barbou
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. – Ben Williams
No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich. – Louis Sabin
The more I see of man, the more I like dogs. – Mme. de Staël
To mark a friend’s remains these stones arise; I never knew but one – and here he lies. – Lord Byron
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog. – Harry S. Truman
Happiness is a warm puppy. – Charles M. Schulz
