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

"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

"Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go in circles, and we seem unable to break away, wondering what horrible event the future holds for us, the dog opens a window into the delight of the moment. To walk with a dog is to enter the world of the immediate. Our dog stares up into a tree, watching a squirrel~she is there and nowhere else."
— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (Dogs Never Lie About Love : Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs)

"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."
— Robert R. McCammon (Boy's Life)

"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conslusive evidence that your are wonderful."
— Ann Landers

""Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.""
— Gene Hill

"Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all."
— John Grogan (Marley & Me: Love and Life with the World's Worst Dog)

"The conclusion I have reached is that,above all,dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there when we think we are alone. Think of what they could tell us. They sit on the laps of presidents. They see acts of love and violence, quarrels and feuds, and the secret play of children. If they could tell us everything they have seen, all of the gaps of our lives would stitch themselves together."
— Carolyn Parkhurst (The Dogs of Babel)

"Aquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative."
— M. Siegel