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"Acquiring
a dog many be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose
a relative."--Mordecai
Siegal "Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes." --Lewis Grizzard "If you want to be liked, get a dog. The people you work with are not your friends. "-- Deborah Norville "Things
that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great
Dane." The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother - and they'll settle for a puppy every time. --Winston Pendelton "I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter..."--Vincent Van Gogh Q: If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be? “In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman.The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.”--Edward Hoagland, Essayist & Author "A
lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience." "When
a man's dog turns against him it is time for his wife to pack
her trunk and go home to mamma." The
greatest 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, English
Author "The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? But rather, Can they suffer?"--Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher and social reformer "If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."-- Woodrow Wilson "Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures."--His Holiness The Dalai Lama "The Animals of the planet are in desparate peril...Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen."--Alice Walker "The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men."--Alice Walker "Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to."--Mark Twain It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower "Politics are not my concern... they impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies." --Rudyard Kipling Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads. --Harry S Truman I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. --Will Rogers Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.--Henry Wheeler Shaw, American humorist The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his. --James Thurber "Of all the creatures, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot."--Mark Twain Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.--Albert Einstein "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."--Gandhi "The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That's the essence of inhumanity."--George Bernard Shaw "May I always be the kind of person that my dog thinks I am." Author 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." excerpt from Senator George Vest's Memorial Inscription to 'Ol Drum - 1870' , Warrensburg, Missouri. International Truths & Dog Proverbs "Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun." --Indian Proverb "Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas." --Italian Proverb "Three things it is best to avoid: a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise." --Welsh Proverb "If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also." --Russian Proverb "The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread." --Portuguese Proverb "Show a dog a finger, and he wants the whole hand." --Yiddish Proverb "The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage." -- Danish Proverb DOG
PROVERBS
"Women and cats
will do as they please and men and dogs should relax and get used
to the idea." -- Robert A. Heinlein
"My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am." - Comment heard in a dog show "Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of its tail." - Unknown "The
small percentage of dogs that bite people is monumental proof that
the dog is the most benign, forgiving creature on earth."-- "...Do the work that's nearest, though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, lame dogs over stiles." -Charles Kingsley, British Author
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