“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”
“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.”
“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.”
“A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.”
“I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
“You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.”
“If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.”
“Let sleeping dogs lie.”
“To err is human—to forgive, canine.”
“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”
“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.”
“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”
“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.”
“It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.”
If your dog doesn’t like someone you probably shouldn’t, either.
“Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.”
“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.”
The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue.
“The one absolutely 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.”
“The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding—this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.”
“Dogs really are perfect soldiers. They are brave and smart; they can smell through walls, see in the dark, and eat Army rations without complaint.”
“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.”
“No animal I know of can consistently be more of a friend and companion than a dog.”
“Dogs are often happier than men simply because the simplest things are the greatest things for them!”
“You can’t have a pristine house with ten dogs, and I’d rather have the ten dogs.”
“Dogs lead a nice life. You never see a dog with a wristwatch.”
“The more I see of the depressing stature of people, the more I admire my dogs.”
“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.”
“The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.”
“Hardly any animal can look as deeply disappointed as a dog to whom one says no.”
“You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.”
“There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog.”
“A dog’s spirit dies hard.”
“Dogs are the magicians of the universe.”
“A dog doesn’t care if you’re rich or poor, smart or dumb. Give him your heart…and he’ll give you his.”
“Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs—loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love—can be elusive to humans.”
“Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.”
“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.”
“I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.”
“I always like a dog so long as he isn’t spelled backward.”
“We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.”
“Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.”
“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.”
“A boy loves his dog.”
“Soon or late, every dog’s master’s memory becomes a graveyard; peopled by wistful little furry ghosts that creep back unbidden, at times, to a semblance of their olden lives.”