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Fun Facts

Canine Quotes

"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult." - Rita Rudner

"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." - John Steinbeck

"Dogs are miracles with paws." Susan Kennedy

“No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich.” Louis Sabin

“No animal I know of can consistently be more of a friend and companion than a dog.”
Stanley Leinwoll

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

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

"Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of is tail.." Unknown

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

"I have a great dog. She's half Lab, half pit bull. A good combination. Sure, she might bite off my leg, but she'll bring it back to me." Jimi Celeste

"Don't make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans, or they'll treat you like dogs."
Martha Scott

"When you leave them in the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until you turn the key eight hours later."Erma Bombeck

"My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog." Carl Rowan

“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 or treacherous, is his dog.”
George Graham Vest

“We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It’s the best deal man has ever made.” M. Facklam

“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.” Unknown

“To err is human, to forgive canine.” Unknown

“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

“Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes.” Gene Hill

“Histories are more full of the examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.” Alexander Pope

“Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.”
Sigmund Freud

“The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.” Konrad Lorenz

"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. " Roger Caras

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

"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

"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

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

"Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job."
Franklin P. Jones

"Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend." Corey Ford

"From the dog's point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog."
Mabel Louise Robinson

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

"A dog is not "almost human" and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such." John Holmes

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

"Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives." Sue Murphy

"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

"If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail."
Fran Lebowitz

"What are little boys, made of? Frogs and snails, And puppy dog tails, That's what little boys, are made of” Unknown

"Puppies are nature's remedy for feeling unloved...plus numerous other ailments of life." Richard Allan Palm

"Happiness is a warm puppy!" Charles Shultz

"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

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

"When a dog wants to hang out the "Do Not Disturb" sign, as all of us do now and then, he is regarded as a traitor to his species." Ramona C. Albert

"The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread." Portuguese Proverb

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

"Dogs are better than human beings, because they know but do not tell." Emily Dickinson

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

"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

"Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices." Lord Byron

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

"In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man." Maurice Maeterlinck

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

"We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment." George Eliot

"When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem." Edward Abbey

"I wonder what goes through his mind when he sees us peeing in his water bowl."
Penny Ward Moser

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

"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

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

"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 you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them." Phil Pastoret

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

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

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

"The dog is a yes-animal, very popular with people who can't afford to keep a yes-man."
Robertson Davies

"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

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs." Aldous Huxley

"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

"Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear."
Dave Barry

"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of." Ogden Nash

"One reason a dog is such a lovable creature is his tail wags instead of his tongue." Unknown

"Outside of a dog, a book is probably man’s best friend, and inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read."
Groucho Marx

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

"Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies." Gene Hill

"The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother - and they'll settle for a puppy every time."Winston Pendelton

"Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching." Richard Kipling

"The old dog barks without getting up,
I can remember when he was a pup." Robert Frost

“I bought my grandmother a Seeing Eye dog. But he's a little sadistic. He does impressions of cars screeching to a halt.” Larry Amoros

“Every puppy should have a boy.” Erma Bombeck