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"I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like a
conscience."~~Charles Darwin

"Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary deity designed to catch the overflow
and surplus of the world's worship."~~Ambrose Bierce

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

"The great pleasure of a dog is that you 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

"The Almighty, who gave the dog to be the companion of our pleasures and
toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit."~~Sir
Walter Scott

"Dogs are indeed the most affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole
brute creation."~~Edmund Burke

"I would rather see a portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical
paintings in the world."~~Samuel Johnson

"Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming and look brighter
when we come."~~Lord Byron

"Histories are more full of examples of fidelity of dogs than of
friends."~~Alexander Pope

"The dog is the only being that loves you more than you love
yourself."~~Fritz Von Unruh

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

"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."~~James Thurber

"It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive
in the dog."~~Charles Darwin

"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

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

"You can talk to a dog all day long, but he's just looking at you and
thinking, "Where's the ball?"~~Mike Myers

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

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

"You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, "My God, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!"~~Dave Barry

"A well-trained dog will make no attempt to share your lunch. He will just make you feel so guilty that you cannot enjoy it."~~Helen Thomson

"If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning
one."~~Andrew A. Rooney

"No man is so poor that he can't afford to keep one dog, and I've seen them so poor they could afford to keep three."~~Henry Wheeler Shaw

"Old dogs, like old shoes, are comfortable. They might be a bit out of shape and a little worn around the edges, but they fit well."~~Bonnie Wilcox

"In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy~~the wag of a dog's tail."~~Henry Wheeler Shaw

"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

"Dogs love company. They place it first in their short list of needs."~~J.R.
Ackerley

"Since I have taken to sleeping under the bed, I have come to know tranquility I never imagined possible. You never really know when it might be cookie time. And that's what dogs have taught me."~~Merrill Markoe

"Were my Maker to grant me but one single glance through these sightless eyes of mine...I would without question or recall choose to see first a child, then a dog."~~Helen keller

"Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to."~~Joe
Gores

"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have
known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons."~~James Thurber

"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...When all other friends desert, he remains."~~George
Graham Vest, Speech in the Senate, 1884

"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.

This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery

If inscribed over human ashes,

Is but a just tribute to the memory of

Boatswain, a dog."

~~Lord Byron