Quotes on Canine

In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.

...he will be our friend for always and always and always.

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 gifts the commonest.

When you leave them in the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until you turn the key eight hours later.

Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon. I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh. The fact that we still live with dogs, even when we don't have to herd or hunt our dinner, gives me hope for humans and canines alike.

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

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.

The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be.

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.

If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.