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.
when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns
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.
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
If aliens are watching us through telescopes, they're going to think the dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge?
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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