#dogs

"Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God."Aristotle"

"Dogs have four legs, just like chairs. I would take mine for a walk, but I’m sitting on it."

"There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes."

"Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun."

"You can't be sad when Daisy is around, she won't let you."

"Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?""I give.""You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog."

"Happiness is a warm puppy."

"You know what I should do?"Hoshino asked excited. "Of course,"the cat said. "What'd I tell you? Cats know everything. Not like dogs."

"Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all."

"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."

"When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster."

"Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them."

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

"The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's."

"The more boys I meet the more I love my dog."

"In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us."

"Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods."

"Dogs never bite me. Just humans."

"My girlfriend bought me a collared shirt for my birthday, mainly so I don’t get too far ahead of her when she takes me for a walk."

"The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants."