Great Quotes About Dogs - Man's Best Friend Indeed
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If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight -- it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.
The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable possession of mankind.
Understanding your dog and knowing how to control him, develop his potentials, and resolve behavior problems, emotional conflicts and frustrations are no less essential than love and respect.
Saving one dog will not change the world, but surely for that one dog, the world will change forever.
Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, Filling an emptiness we don't even know we have.
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
Take personal responsibility. A lot of people go, 'Well, I'll get a dog because I have a kid and a kid needs a dog.' And it doesn't work out for that dog and the dog is on the street.
The reason I love my dog so much is because when I come home, he's the only one in the world who treats me like I'm the Beatles.
Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way.
When a man tries to communicate with an animal, there's a relationship between them, and you generally find this between the dog and his master.
One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us.
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One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices, the battering events that are beyond our control, and the betrayals we endure, from those we befriended and loved, can make us cynical and turn our hearts into flint -- on which only the matches of anger and bitterness can be struck into flame. By their delight in being with us, the reliable sunniness of their disposition, the joy they bring to playtime, the curiosity with which they embrace each new experience, dogs can melt cynicism,and sweeten the bitter heart.
Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.
Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions, they get their feelings hurt. It's not a far reach to give them opinions and values and long-term desires.
He has taught me the meaning of devotion. With him, I know a secret comfort and a private peace. He has brought me understanding where before I was ignorant.
No one 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.
With eye upraised his master's look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.
I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, .they are the role model for being alive.
Of course what he most intensely dreams of is being taken out on walks, and the more you are able to indulge him the more will he adore you and the more all the latent beauty of his nature will come out.
If I have any beliefs about immortality it is that certain dogs I know will go to heaven, and very very few people.
Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.
Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
A dog is not 'almost human' and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.
I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.
A good dog never dies.
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A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way.
I have a little dog who likes to nap with me.
He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck.
He is sweeter than soap.
He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace,
which can't even bark.
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.
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.
Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their companions in life. I wish I could believe that too.
We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet -- so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.
Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around.
Dogs notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they're able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when they're praised.
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.
Letting cats and dogs have litters is tantamount to shooting shelter animals in the head since it kills their chances of adoption. Please do the right thing and spay or neuter your animals.
Ever consider what dogs must think of us? I mean here we come back from the grocery store with the most amazing haul--chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth.
So many people pass up older dogs, which is a shame. With an older dog, you know what you are getting.
Now that I have a dog, I frequently have to take him out and get some exercise, which also gets me exercise.
Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.
Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves.
Every dog might wish to be Dog One, but like us, most dogs want membership in the group even more than they want supremacy over others.
Dogs do not ruin their sleep worrying about how to keep the objects they have, and to obtain the objects they have not. There is nothing of value they have to bequeath except their love and their faith.
They dogs never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.
Dogs are voiceless ... a critical part of having dogs is emotional responsibility: learning how to understand them and, when necessary, to speak and act on their behalf.
It is rewarding beyond words to rescue a dog from the shelter and have that dog become part of your family.
A mutt is a dog. He is the stuff of dogginess, a creature allied to species, not breed, and untrammeled by human hand or preference.
Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all there is. They are quick to forgive trespasses and assume strangers will be kind.
I guess you don't really own a dog, you rent them, and you have to be thankful that you had a long lease.
It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.
Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs -- loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love -- can be elusive to humans.
The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift.
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The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.
A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.
Everyone knows dogs. Most people love dogs. I think most American families probably have a dog, but I don't think people really realize or understand just how wonderful and special dogs are.
No other animal bonds to a human being the way a dog does. And I suspect there is no other animal to which human beings can bond the way we can bond to a dog.
Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay there with them. Dogs love us unconditionally, not for our bodies or bank accounts.
Good dogs should never be asked to prove that they're good dogs. If there's anything in this world that we should take on faith, it's good dogs.
If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.
To a dog, motoring isn't just a way of getting from here to there, it's also a thrill and an adventure. The mere jingle of car keys is enough to send most any dog into a whimpering, tail-wagging frenzy.
After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.
Dogs, for a reason that can only be described as divine, have the ability to forgive, let go of the past, and live each day joyously. It's something the rest of us strive for.
Dogs love us not only because we feed them, walk them, or groom them, or protect them, but because we are fun. How astonishing!
The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.
For those who love dogs, it would be the worst form of a lie to call any place where dogs were banned Paradise. Certainly no loving God would separate people from their canine friends for eternity.
When was the last time someone was so overjoyed to see you, so brimming with love and affection that they literally ran to greet you? A dog will do that for you -- ten, twenty, thirty times a day.
God turns clouds inside out to make fluffy beds for the dogs in Dog Heaven, and when they are tired from running and barking and eating ham-sandwich biscuits, the dogs find a cloud bed for sleeping. God watches over each one of them. And there are no bad dreams.
You will never know loneliness when you have a dog, when you lose that dog it will be loneliness like you've never known.
Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog;
but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog.
A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology.
Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs so plainly as does a dog when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master.
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 in their object-relations.
DOG: A kind of additional or subsidiary Diety designed to catch the overflow or surplus of the world's worship.
God... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better.
The dog is man's best friend. He has a tail on one end. Up in front he has teeth. And four legs underneath.
The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.
The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
Dogs are easier to love than people; they're certainly more dependable. Once they love you, that's it. A true friend in life is a dog.
I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.
