Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. -Alexander Pope

"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 objective relations." -- Sigmund Freud

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

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

"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." --Mark Twain

"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." --Maurice Maeterlinck 'Our Friend, The Dog'

"The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien." --Plato

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 -- Mark Twain

"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." --Will Rogers

Blessed is the person who has earned the love of an old dog. --Sidney Jeanne Seward

"I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive." -- Gilda Radner

"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." -- Sigmund Freud

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. --Alexander Pope

The Chow is a dog, who is a master, looking for a master, who is not a dog--Author unknown (Contributed by Patricia Graham)

"How often have I not smiled and been touched as I contemplated these four-footed Philosophers, these obliging, obedient, devoted slaves, that the republican dictionary might well describe as unofficial, if the Republic, far too concerned with the happiness of men, could find a little time to treat with respect the honour of dogs!" "And many times I have thought that somewhere (who knows after all?) There may be a special paradise for the good dogs, the poor dogs, the dirty and lonely dogs, to reward so much courage, so much patience and labour."--Baudelaire (Contributed by Gene)

"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." -- Samuel Butler (Contributed by Gene)

"...Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware, Of giving your heart to a dog to tear." -Rudyard Kipling

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

Tis sweet to hear the watch dogs' honest bark
Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home;
'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark
Our coming and look brighter when we come. -- Lord Byron, Don Juan

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

"The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and poverty, in health and sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his master's side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer, he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. When all other friends desert he remains. When riches take wings and reputation falls to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens". . .... Unknown (Believe this text to be from an early American trial re: the killing of a neighbor's dog)