Dog Quotes  

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
--Robert Lewis Stevenson		 Every Boy should have two things; a dog, and a mother willing to let him have one.
--Anonymous		 The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful is his dog...He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world...When all other friends desert, he remains.
--George G. Vest
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
--Mark Twain		 No matter how little money and how few
possessions you own, having a dog 
makes you rich.
-Louis Sabin		 The more I see of some people, the more I like my dogs. 
-Trudy Williams
Some days you're the dog, and some days you're the hydrant.
--Unknown		 A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
--Plato		 I never met a dog I didn't like."
 - unknown
My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. 
-- Rita Rudner		 If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
--Mark Twain		 "No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does." 
-- Christopher Morley
Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs. 
-- Martha Scott		 Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our
lives whole.
--Roger Caras		 "If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one." 
-- Andy Rooney
"Ever consider what they must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul- chicken, pork, half a cow... they must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!" 
-- Anne Tyler 		"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him." 
-- Dereke Bruce, Taipei, Taiwan 		The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.
--Samuel Butler
You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'My God,you're right! I never would've thought of that!'
--Dave Barry		 If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience." 
-- Woodrow Wilson
 It's funny, I've forgotten the names and faces of so many people who've touched my life, but I remember every detail of every dog I've known. Maybe it's because they touched my soul.
- Sue Englert
"Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job." 
-- Franklin P. Jones		 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
--Mark Twain		 "Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies." 
- Gene Hill
"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face."
-- Ben Williams		 "The quality of a society will be judged on how they treat their animals." 
 -- Gandhi		 I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. 
-- August Strindberg
"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." 
-- Unknown		 "He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion" 
-- Unknown 		Saving just 1 pet wont change the world, but surely the world will change for that one pet.

 
"Abusing the earth's animals is to abuse some of the most divine guardian angels God has given us. It isn't just an outrage, it amounts to shooting ourselves in the foot--we can't spiritually afford to diminish the spiritual perfection that lives among us."
Sylvia Browne

"If you get to  thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog  around."
Will Rogers

 

 		 "Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened."
Anatole France
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Regarding loss of a pet

"Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours."

 "He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog.
You are his life, his love, his leader.
He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart.
You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion."

LOSS OF A DOG
If you've ever known the joyful sound
Of barks that fill the air-
A sloppy kiss, a friendly paw,
A quiet adoring stare-
If you've ever had a special friend
To share a tear or two,
Or maybe just a wagging tail
To lift you when you're blue-
If you've ever felt the wrenching pain
That only death can send,
Then you have lost
Not just a dog-
You've truly lost a friend.
But God is good and treasures love
And there at Heaven's gate-
A sloppy kiss, a joyful bark-
Your precious friend awaits.

 

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