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.
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.
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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.
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.
Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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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