1. A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.-Robert Benchly
2. A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.-Josh Billings
3. Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.-Agatha Christie
4. Dogs never bite me. Just humans.-Marilyn Monroe
5. 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
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6. A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.-Arthur Conan Doyle
7. Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.-Roger Caras
8. Dogs don’t rationalize. They don’t hold anything against a person. They don’t see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.-Cesar Millan
9. 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
10. Dogs are miracles with paws.-Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy
11. Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really-Agnes Sligh Turnbull
12. Properly trained, a man can be dog’s best friend.-Corey Ford
13. If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.-Capek
14. The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.-Maeterlinck
15. The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.-Andrew A.
16. Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.-Max Eastman
17. When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.-John B. Bogart
18. The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic.-Henry Ward Beecher
19. You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, `My God, you’re RIGHT! I NEVER would’ve thought of that!’-Dave Barry
20. Dogs wait for us faithfully.
21. A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it by breeding for it, and you can’t buy it with money. It just happens along.-E B White
22. Dogs love company. They place it first in their short list of needs.-J.R. Ackerley
23. His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears.-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
24. You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.-Robert Louis Stevenson
26. I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.-Gilda Radner
27. 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
28. When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.-Henry David Thoreau
29. There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.-Ben Williams
30. A dog has one aim in life… to bestow his heart.-J. R. Ackerley