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“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

tags: animals, dogs

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“Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made. ”
― Roger Caras

tags: dogs, faith, love

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“Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.”
― Dave Barry

tags: bark, dogs, feel

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#4

“When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them easy to marginalize. Among those is the belief that Rene Descartes was a jackass.”
― Steven Kotler, A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life

tags: animal-cruelty, animal-rescuers, descartes, dogs

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#5

“I like dogs
Big dogs
Little dogs
Fat dogs
Doggy dogs
Old dogs
Puppy dogs
I like dogs
A dog that is barking over the hill
A dog that is dreaming very still
A dog that is running wherever he will
I like dogs.”
― Margaret Wise Brown, The Friendly Book

tags: children, dogs, puppies, puppy

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#6

“Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dog.”
― Ernest Thompson Seton

tags: dogs

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#7

“Joyful, joyful, joyful,
as only dogs know how to be happy
with only the autonomy
of their shameless spirit.”
― Pablo Neruda

tags: dogs, love

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#8

“It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.”
― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places

tags: culling, dogs, fantasy, foolishness, humor, humour, nurturing, security, shepherds, strategy, wisdom, young-adult

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#9

“If you make a fool of yourself in front of a cat, he will sneer at you, if you are sober; he will leave the room if you are drunk. If you make a fool of yourself in front a dog, he will make a fool of himself, too.”
― Chuck Jones

tags: cats, dogs

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#10

“When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.”
― Kristan Higgins, Catch of the Day

tags: dogs, man-s-best-friend

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#11

“If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.”
― Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

tags: dogs

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#12

“You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Journey

tags: dogs

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#13

“I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.”
― Doris Day

tags: dogs

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#14

“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

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#15

“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: animals, dogs, happiness, humor, puppies

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#16

“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: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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#17

“I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.”
― Cesar Millan

tags: dogs, integrity

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#18

“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: animals, dogs

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#19

“A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

tags: character, dogs, families, family, family-life, pets

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#20

“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.”
― Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

tags: death, dogs, life

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#21

“You can't replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but that's not to say you shouldn't get more dogs and people in your life.”
― Polly Horvath, One Year in Coal Harbor

tags: dogs

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#22

“I never met a man half so true as a dog. Treat a dog right, and he'll treat you right. He'll keep you company, be your friend, and never ask you no questions. Cats is different, but I never held that against 'em.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

tags: dogs

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#23

“There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog”
― Konrad Lorenz

tags: dogs

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#24

“Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.”
― Clarence Day, This Simian World

tags: dogs, integrity, love

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#25

“I have a little dog who likes to nap with me.
He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck.
He is sweeter than soap.
He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace,
which can't even bark...”
― Mary Oliver

tags: dogs

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#26

“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

tags: dogs, peace

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#27

“The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since we humans programmed this vulnerability, it's our responsibility to ensure that our dogs do not suffer as a result.”
― John Bradshaw, Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet

tags: dogs, love, responsibility

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#28

“Angels do not enter a house where there is a dog.”
― Mohammed

tags: dogs

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#29

“It seems to me that the good lord in his infinate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable- hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these was dogs.”
― Robyn Davidson, Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback

tags: australia, dogs, robyn-davidson, tracks

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#30

“I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: benevolence, charity, generosity, hypocrisy, pets

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