QUOTATIONS

"Yesterday I was a dog.

Today I'm a dog.

Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog.

Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement."

Snoopy

Anatole France ‘The Coming of Riquet'
                        "The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon
                        the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls."

AKC Gazette August, 1991
                        "In a dog-eat-dog world, it is the dogmatic domain of dog lovers to offer dogdom a dog's chance to rise
                        above the dog days for a doggone good time."

ASPCA
                        "If you can't decide between a Shepherd, a Setter or a Poodle, get them all ... adopt a mutt!"

Robert Benchley
                        Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a
                        length that a child cannot do much harm one way or another."

                        "A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."

Josh Billings
                        "Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy
                        and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland."

                        "A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself."

Samuel Butler
                        "The great 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."

Roger Caras
                        "Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole."

Winston Churchill
                        "The nose of the Bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go."

Dwight D. Eisenhower
                        "What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog."

Sigmund Freud
                        "Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and
                        always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations."

Robert Frost
                        "The dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup."

Lewis Grizzard
                        "Life is like a dog sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes."

Haitian Farmer
                        "A dog is a dog except when he is facing you. Then he is Mr. Dog."

Aldolph Hitler After a railroad worker in Alsace stole his terrier in 1917
                        "I was desperate. The swine who stole my dog doesn't realize what he did to me!"

Edward Hoagland
                        "In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to
                        open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog."

John Holmes
                        "A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as
                        such."

Rick Horowitz ‘Chicago Tribune'
                        "You may have a dog that won't sit up, roll over or even cook breakfast, not because she's too stupid to
                        learn how but because she's too smart to bother."

Aldous Huxley
                        "To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."

Holbrook Jackson
                        "Man is a dog's idea of what God should be."

Jerome K. Jerome
                        "They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an
                        appearance of being interested in the conversation."

Samuel Johnson
                        "I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me
                        in the world."

Franklin P. Jones
                        "Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job."

Rudyard Kipling
                        "Politics are not my concern... they impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies."

Milan Kundera
                        "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."

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

Fran Lebowitz
                        "If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a  sweater... suggest that he wear a tail."

Maurice Maeterlinck
                        "In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution
                        of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the
                        presence of man."

Groucho Marx
                        "Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend, and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
 
                        "Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman.  Then if you can get the dog to
                        go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun!"

Joaquin Miller
                        "The biggest dog has been a pup."

Christopher Morley
                        "No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does."