In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.
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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.
Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog.
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.
Of course what he most intensely dreams of is being taken out on walks, and the more you are able to indulge him the more will he adore you and the more all the latent beauty of his nature will come out.
Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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.
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
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.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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.
A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
Living with a dog is easy- like living with an idealist.
The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise.
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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