"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful." - Ann Landers

"Dogs' lives are too short.  Their only fault, really." - Agnes Sligh Turnbull

"The more I see of man, the more I like dogs." - Mme. de Staël

"My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet."  - Edith Wharton

"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

"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face." - Ben Williams

"One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why." - Author Unknown

"No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses." - Herman Melvill

"Happiness is a warm puppy." - Charles M. Schulz

"I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive." - Gilda Radner

"The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue." - Author Unknown

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person." - Andy Rooney

"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

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself." - Josh Billings

"A dog can express more with his tail in seconds than his owner can express with his tongue in hours." - Author Unknown

"The more one gets to know of men, the more one values dogs." - Alphonse Toussenel

"I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons." - Will Rogers

"My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am." - Author Unknown

"With the exception of women, there is nothing on earth so agreeable or necessary to the comfort of man as the dog." - Edward Jesse

"Man is a dog's idea of what God should be." - Holbrook Jackson

"I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.  They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no moral restraint, and they do not for all their marvelous instincts appear to know about death. Being such wonderfully uncomplicated beings, they need us to do their worrying." - George Bird Evans

"Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage." - Agnes Repplier

"I talk to him when I'm lonesome like; and I'm sure he understands.  When he looks at me so attentively, and gently licks my hands; then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes, but I never say naught thereat. For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that." - W. Dayton Wedgefarth

"If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one."  - Andy Rooney

"The great 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

"Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails." - Max Eastman

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

"They never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation."  - Jerome K. Jerome

"The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic." - Henry Ward Beecher

"Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window." - Steve Bluestone

"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." - Roger Caras

"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does." - Christopher Morley

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down." - Robert Benchley

"There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog." - Konrad Lorenz

"Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger." - Albert Payson Terhune

"You think dogs will not be in heaven?  I tell you, they will be there long before any of us." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"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." - Milan Kundera

"I named my dog Stay so I can say, "Come here, Stay.  Come here, Stay." - Steven Wright

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

See also: Top 15 Dog Quotes, Top 15 Funny Dog Quotes, Dog Proverbs and Sayings

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