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Quotables

 

"A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast."
                   -- Proverbs 12:10

"If your dog doesn't like someone you probably shouldn't either."
-- Unknown

"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
-- Immanuel Kant

"Old dogs, like old shoes, are comfortable. They might be a bit out of shape and a little worn around the edges, but they fit well."
-- Bonnie Wilcox 'Old Dogs, Old Friends'

"Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies."
-- Gene Hill

"The more people I meet the more I like my dog"
-- Unknown

"In dog years I'm dead"
-- Unknown

"This house is owned & operated solely for the comfort & convenience of the DOGS!"
-- on a mug

"The biggest dog has been a pup."
-- Joaquin Miller

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

"Every dog has his day -- but the nights are reserved for the cats."
-- Unknown

"Let sleeping dogs lie."
-- Unknown

"If you wish the dog to follow you, feed him."
-- Unknown

"It's hard to teach an old dog new tricks."
-- Unknown

"If you cannot bite, don't show your teeth."
-- Yiddish Proverb

"Without a shepherd, sheep are not a flock."
-- Russian Proverb

"One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him."
-- Chinese Proverb

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The slowest barker is the surest biter."
-- Unknown

"I once decided not to date a guy because he wasn't excited to meet my dog. I mean, this was like not wanting to meet my mother."
-- Bonnie Schacter, Founder of the Single Pet Owner's Society Singles Group

"A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him."
-- William Kunstler

"Researches have discovered that dogs can comprehend a vocabulary of 2,000 words, whereas cats can only comprehend 25 to 50. No one ever asks
how many words researches can comprehend."
-- Unknown

"A dog is a prose, a cat is a poem."
-- Jean Burden

"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

"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

"You do not own a dog, the dog owns you."
-- Unknown

"Beware of still water, a still dog, and a still enemy."
--Yiddish Proverb

"Beware of a silent dog and still water."
-- Latin Proverb

"I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world."
-- Samuel Johnson

"I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree."
-- Dana Burnet

"My little dog---a heartbeat at my feet."
-- Edith Wharton 

"Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads."
-- Harry S. Truman

"The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs."
-- Nietzche

"I like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether it's aman or a dog; it's best for every day."
-- George Bernard Shaw

"A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion."
-- A.A. Milne

"There's not much you can do with a terrier, ma'am."
-- Los Angeles dog trainer

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

"All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers is contained in the dog."
-- Kafka

"Jesse has a new dog. You may have noticed that his former pets have been peculiarly unfortunate. When this dog dies every employee in the White
House will be at once discharged."
-- Ulysses Grant to White house staff when his son got a Newfoundland pup, and after others of his dogs had died mysteriously

"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. . . .He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; 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 G. Vest

"When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog along to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten."
-- Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

"Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs."
-- P. J. O'Rourke

"If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer."
-- Alfred North Whitehead

"It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it."
-- Latin Proverb

"If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also."
-- Russian Proverb

"My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money."
-- Joe Weinstein

"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

"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"Elizabeth's back at the red cross, and I'm walking the dog."
-- Bob Dole, on the Today Show, describing life after the elections, 1997

"Women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
-- Robert A. Heinlein

"The greater love is a mother's; then comes a dog's; then a sweetheart's."
-- Polish Proverb

"And what is the Scientific Community doing about these problems, young people? THEY'RE CLONING SHEEP. Great! Just what we need! Sheep that
look MORE ALIKE than they already do! Thanks a lot, Scientific Community!"
-- Dave Barry

"Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant."
-- Unknown

"Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer."
-- Leo Rosten

"Barking dogs don't bite people they don't know."
-- Unknown

"One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him."
-- Chinese Proverb

"A traveler must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing."
-- Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)

"Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never
reach the top."
-- Robert Burton (1576-1640)

"Live with wolves, and you learn to howl."
-- Spanish Proverb

"How's it going Mr. Peterson?" -- Woody
"It's a dog eat dog world, Woody, and I'm wearing milk bone underwear." --
Norm from Cheers

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