You think your dog will not be in heaven?
I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

The gift I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable possession of mankind.
- Theodorus Gaza

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

Every boy should have two things:
a dog, and a mother willing to let him have one.
- Anonymous

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
- Plato

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

He is your friend, your partner, your defender you 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.
- Anonymous

The one absolute, unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world - the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous - is his dog.
He will kiss the hand that has no food, he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world.
When all other friends desert, he remains.
- George Graham Vest

No matter how little money or how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich.
- Louis Sabin

Dogs' lives are too short.
Their only fault, really.
- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults.
Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
- George Eliot

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love.
For me they are the role model for being alive.
- Gilda Radner

One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why.
- Anonymous

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.
- Franklin P. Jones

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 there at.
For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that.
- W. Dayton Wedgefarth

Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend.
- Corey Ford

If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them.
- Phil Pastoret

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
- Max Eastman, Enjoyment of Laughter

My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.
- Anonymous

If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
- Andy Rooney

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 you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.
- Mme. de Staël

Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window.
- Steve Bluestone

They never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.
- Jerome K. Jerome

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
- Karel Capek

Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.
- Roger Caras

One reason a dog is such a lovable creature is his tail wags instead of his tongue.
- Anonymous

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
- Andy Rooney

The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread.
- Portuguese Proverb

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

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

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

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

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

I wonder what goes through his mind when he sees us peeing in his water bowl.
- Penny Ward Moser

Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
- Josh Billings

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

To err is human, to forgive canine.
- Anonymous

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

Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog.
A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes.
- Gene Hill

Histories are more full of the examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
- Alexander Pope

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

The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.
- Konrad Lorenz

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
- Anatole France

No animal I know of can consistently be more of a friend and companion than a dog.
- Stanley Leinwoll

Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master.
- Charles Darwin

Folk will know how large your soul is, by the way you treat a dog!
- Charles F. Doran

I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.
- Aaron Eckhart

I guess you don't really own a dog, you rent them, and you have to be thankful that you had a long lease.
- Joe Garagiola

You really have to be some kind of a creep for a dog to reject you.
- Joe Garagiola

If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.
- Marjorie Garber

When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget they're not people.
- Julia Glass

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.
- Joe Gores

All my dogs have been scamps and thieves and troublemakers and I've adored them all.
- Helen Hayes

We never really own a dog as much as he owns us.
- Gene Hill

A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character, he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends, and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.
- Leigh Hunt

My dog is usually pleased with what I do, because she is not infected with the concept of what I "should" be doing.
- Lonzo Idolswine

He never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or wrong, never bothers as to whether you are going up or down life's ladder, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him.
- Jerome K. Jerome

Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog.
- Gary Kowalski

My dog does have his failings, of course. He's afraid of firecrackers and hides in the clothes closet whenever we run the vacuum cleaner, but, unlike me he's not afraid of what other people think of him or anxious about his public image.
- Gary Kowalski

Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.
- D.H. Lawrence

No animal I know of can consistently be more of a friend and companion than a dog.
- Stanley Leinwoll

There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog.
- Konrad Lorenz

The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made his greatest gift the commonest.
- Martin Luther

Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog;
but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog.
- Douglas Mallock

Dogs never lie about love.
- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.
- E.C. McKenzie

It is true that whenever a person loves a dog he derives great power from it.
- Old Seneca Chief

One of the happiest sights in the world comes when a lost dog is reunited with a master he loves. You just haven't seen joy till you have seen that.
- Eldon Roark

A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.
- Sa'di

A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, big or small, young or old. He doesn't care if you're not smart, not popular, not a good joke-teller, not the best athlete, nor the best-looking person. To your dog, you are the greatest, the smartest, the nicest human being who was ever born. You are his friend and protector.
- Louis Sabin

There's just something about dogs that makes you feel good. You come home; they're thrilled to see you. They're good for the ego.
- Janet Schulman

If my dog is barred by the heavenly guard we'll both of us brave the heat!
- W. Dayton Wedgefarth

They give unconditional love and undying loyalty in return for regular meals and an occasional pat on the head.
- Jon Winokur

It's no coincidence that man's best friend cannot talk.
- Anonymous

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

If you want to be liked, get a dog. The people you work with are not your friends.
- Deborah Norville

Ever consider what dogs 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

Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

I've caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs.
- Barbara Woodhouse

Dogs understand your moods and your thoughts, and if you are thinking unpleasant things about your dog, he will pick it up and be downhearted.
- Barbara Woodhouse

A man may smile and bid you hail,
Yet wish you to the devil;
But when a good dog wags his tail,
You know he's on the level.
- Anonymous

You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!'
- Dave Barry

My sunshine doesn't come from the skies,
it comes from the love in my dog's eyes.
- Anonymous

All of the good things that have come to me have come through my dog.
- A dog owner overheard in New York's Central Park

The best thing about a man is his dog.
- French Proverb

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
- James Thurber

It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts hamming it up.
- P.G. Wodehouse

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

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

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

Never trust a dog to watch your food.
- Patrick - age 10

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 give their human companions unconditional love and are always there with an encouraging wag of the tail when they are needed. The dog is indeed a very special animal.
- Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.
- Roger Caras

A dog can express more with his tail in minutes than his owner can express with his tongue in hours.
- Anonymous

I am as confounded by dogs as I am indebted to them.
- Roger Caras

The dog has got more fun out of man than man has got out of the dog, for man is the more laughable of the two animals.
- James Thurber

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

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.
- Will Rogers

The more I know about men, the more I like dogs.
- Gloria Allred

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
- Milan Kundera

If your dog thinks you are wonderful don't risk asking for a second opinion.
- Anonymous

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
- Agnes Repplier

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner:
"Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time."
When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."
- A Native American elder

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

When I die, let it be as a pet,
so that someone will remember me.
- A Greyhound Wish

…he is more faithful even than the most basted among men; he is constant in his affection, friendly without interest, and grateful for the slightest favours; much more mindful of benifits received…
- Oliver Goldsmith, from A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 1774

Their impression of power is remarkable. They give one the feeling of immense reserves of energy, of great resovoirs of knowledge, of tolerance of disposition, obstinancy of purpose, and tenacity of principle. They are responsive and have a lot of quite, good sense.
- J Wentworth Day, from The Dog in Sport, 1938

With eyes uprais'd, his master's looks to scan,
The joy, the solace, and the aid of man;
The rich man's guardian, the poor man's friend,
The only being faithful to the end.
- George Crabb, from The Borough, 1810

When the Man walked up he said, "What is Wild Dog doing here?"
And the woman said, "His name is not Wild Dog any more, but First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always. Take him with you when you go hunting".
- Rudyard Kipling, from Just So Stories, 1902

It was comfort, too, to see
Those dogs that from him ne'er would rove,
And always eyed him reverently,
With glances of depending love.
- Harry Hallam, from On Sir Walter Scott, 1832

For it is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyound value; with him one is at peace where words play no torturing tricks. When he just sits loving and knows that he is loved, those are moments that I think are precious to a dog; when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
- John Galsworthy, from Memories, 1924

Qui me amat, amet et canem meum.

"Who loves me will love my dog also."
- St. Bernard of Clairvaux

The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? But rather, Can they suffer?
- Jeremy Bentham

Lots of people talk to animals;
Not very many listen, though;
That's the problem.
- Benjamin Hoff, from The Tao of Pooh