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.
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.
...he will be our friend for always and always and always.
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.
Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.
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.
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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