îDogs 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.î
Dave Barry

ìTo his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.î
Aldous Huxley

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

îNo animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.î
Fran Lebowitz

îEver 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!î
Anne Tyler

îIf I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.î
James Thurber

îIn 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.î
Dereke Bruce

îThere is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.î
Ben Williams

îMoney will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.î
Unknown

îNo one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.î
Christopher Morley

îA dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.î
Josh Billings

îMan is a dog's idea of what God should be.î
Holbrook Jackson

îThe average dog is a nicer person than the average person.î
Andrew A. Rooney

îHe 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.î
Unknown

îHeaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.î
Mark Twain

îIf there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.î
Unknown

"Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery, if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just Tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog."
John Cam Hobhouse
(Inscription on the monument raised for Lord Byron's dog, Boatswain, in the grounds of FEATUREtead Abbey, Byron's seat in Nottinghamshire)

"In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog."
Edward Hoagland

"The great 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

"Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the worldís worship."
Ambrose Bierce

"The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic."
Henry Ward Beecher

"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends."
Alexander Pope "No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich."
Louis Sabin