#dogs

"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 man."

"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."

"Her love stays with me wherever I go. That’s because I have it on a leash, like a dog, and I take it for walks like I do with my pet wheelchair."

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

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

"The simplest strategy for bouts of noxious flatus is to not care. Or perhaps to take advantage of a gastroenterologist I know: get a dog. (To blame.)"

"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."

"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."

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."

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

". . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do."

"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."

"Happiness is a warm puppy."