Russ Ryan > Russ's Quotes

“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
― Will Rogers

“Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

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

“I've changed my ways a little, I cannot now
Run with you in the evenings along the shore,
Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment,
You see me there.”
― Robinson Jeffers

“They had buried him under our elm tree, they said -- yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.”
― Willie Morris, My Dog Skip

“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

“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

“In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.”
― W. H. Auden

“It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”
― Josh Billings

“You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.”
― Mark Twain

“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.”
― John grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog

“Dogs are minor angels, and I don't mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally, forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to do anything that makes us happy, etcetera. If we attributed some of those qualities to a person we would say they are special. If they had ALL of them, we would call them angelic. But because it's "only" a dog, we dismiss them as sweet or funny but little more. However when you think about it, what are the things that we most like in another human being? Many times those qualities are seen in our dogs every single day-- we're just so used to them that we pay no attention.”
― Jonathan Carroll

“Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.”
― Agnes Sligh Turnbull

“I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Every dog must have his day.”
― Jonathan Swift

“The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.”
― Stanley Coren

“What do dogs do on their day off?; Can't lie around – that's their job!”
― George Carlin

“I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies.”
― Merrill Markoe

“The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That's never happened to me before. You know, on a long tour you do hear people saying they miss their pets. I never have. But last night I started really missing my dog.
It's very odd, 'cause I don't have a dog.”
― Bono

“You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!”
― Harry S. Truman

“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

“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 weigh. 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