In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.
George Graham VestRead
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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.
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.
The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.
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.
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.
In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
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