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If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.: Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.: August Strindberg (1849 - 1912), A Madman's Diary, 1895
Yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.: Bible, Matthew xv. 27.
Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), (Snoopy)
You can't surprise a man with a dog.: Cindy Chupack, Sex and the City, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, 2000
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?: Eleanor H. Porter (1868 - 1920), Pollyanna, 1912
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied.: Irish Proverb
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.: Jeff Valdez
Who knew that dog saliva can mend a broken heart?: Jennifer Neal, nakedjen, 07-22-08
Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.: Joe Gores
My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money.: Joe Weinstein
When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.: John B. Bogart (1848 - 1921)
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.: Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949)
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.: Peter Steiner, cartoon in The New Yorker, July 5, 1993
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.: Rita Rudner
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.: Roger Caras
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.: Sue Murphy


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