QUOTATIONS

"Qui me amat, amet et canem meum."

("Love me, love my dog.")

St. Bernard, A.D. 1150

"Sermo Primus"

Norman Rockwell
                        "If a picture wasn't going very well I'd put a puppy dog in it, always a mongrel, you know, never one of
                        the full bred puppies. And then I'd put a bandage on its foot... I liked it when I did it, but now I'm sick of
                        it."

Will Rogers
                        "No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer
                        he gets, the better friend he has."

Andrew A. Rooney
                        "The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."

                        "If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one."

Rita Rudner
                        "I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult."

Bonnie Schacter
                        "I once decided not to date a guy because he wasn't excited to meet my dog. I mean, this was like not
                        wanting to meet my mother."

Sir Walter Scott 'The Talisman'
                        "Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath
                        invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit."

George Bernard Shaw
                        "If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's
                        pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog."

Henry Wheeler Shaw
                        "Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.."

John Steinbeck
                        "I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that
                        basically dogs think humans are nuts."

Robert Louis Stevenson
                        "You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us."

August Strindberg
                        "I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. "

Jonathan Swift
                        "Every dog must have his day."

Albert Payson Terhune ‘The Coming of Lad'
                        "Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a
                        disreputable stranger."

Henry David Thoreau
                        "When a dog runs at you, whistle for him."

James Thurber
                        "If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very,
                        very few persons."

Arnold Toynbee
                        "America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags it's tail it knocks over a chair."

Mark Twain
                        "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal
                        difference between a dog and a man."

    From a letter to W. D. Howells, April 02, 1899
                        "The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's."

Bonnie Wilcox
                        "Old dogs, like old shoes, are comfortable. They might be a bit out of shape and a little worn around the
                        edges, but they fit well."

Ben Williams
                        "There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face."

Woodrow Wilson
                        "If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine
                        your conscience."

The following are all "UNKNOWN"

                        "Howling dogs mean the wind god has summoned death, and the spirits of the dead will be taken."

                        "The more people I meet the more I like my dog"

                        "He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be
                        yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion"

                        "In dog years I'm dead"

                        "When you feed dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long."

                        "You do not own a dog, the dog owns you."

                        "If you wish the dog to follow you, feed him."

                        "It's hard to teach an old dog new tricks."

                        "Let sleeping dogs lie."

                        "Whoever said "let sleeping dogs lie" didn't sleep with dogs."

                        "The difference between cats and dogs is, dogs come when they are called, cats take a message and
                        get back to you."

                        "One reason a dog is such a lovable creature is his tail wags instead of his tongue."

                        "When old dogs bark, it's time to watch out."