"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."
— Mark Twain

"The greatest 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

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

"There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog"
— Konrad Z. Lorenz

"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"
— George Eliot

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

"Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."
— Mark Twain

"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. 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

"I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it."
— Cesar Millan

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."
— Andy Rooney

"I once heard a woman who had lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly missing from her world: the dog had introduced to her field of vision some previously unavailable hue and without a dog, that color was gone. That seemed to capture the experience of loving a dog with eminent simplicity. I'd amend it only slightly and say that if we are open to what they have to give, dogs can introduce us to several colors with names like wildness, nurturance, trust and joy."
— Carolyn Knapp

"Every dog must have his day."
— Jonathan Swift

"The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog."
— Ambrose Bierce

"Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon. I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weight. The fact that we still live with dogs, even when we don't have to herd or hunt our dinner, gives me hope for humans and canines alike."
— Oprah Winfrey

"He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music."
— Mark Helprin (Winter's Tale)

"There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man. "
— Dolly Parton

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Lots of people talk to animals...Not very many listen though...that's the problem."
— Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh)

"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth."
— Henry Beston

"Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky"
— John Grogan (Marley & Me Illustrated Edition: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog)

"The creatures that inhabit this earth--be they human beings or animals--are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world."
— Dalai Lama XIV

"Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative."
— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"“Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.”
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— Elvis Presley

"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."
— Martin Luther