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

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

"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 (Contributed by Gene)

"Was there ever a dog that praised its fleas?" -W.B.Yeats

"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." --Sir Walter Scott 'The Talisman'

"Let dogs delight to bark, for God hath made them so" -Isaac Watts

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

"When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news." -John Bogart

"The tendency to cruelty should be watched in children and if they incline to any such cruelty, they should be taught the contrary usage. For the custom of tormenting and killing other animals will, by degrees, harden their hearts even toward man. Children should from the beginning be brought up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting living beings. "--John Locke

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.--Abraham Lincoln

"...Do the work that's nearest, though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, lame dogs over stiles." -Charles Kingsley

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.--Thomas A. Edison

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

"It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."--Albert Schweitzer

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

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.-- Author Unknown

Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. -- Mark Twain

A dog has the soul of a philosopher. -- Plato

"A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: 'Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time.' When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, 'The one I feed the most'."--Anonymous

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