Dogs Quotes

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.

Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is highly significant, I think, that at both ends of the human life span the bond between human and dog speaks with an insistent clarity – if we have ears to hear.

Whoever said you can’t buy happiness forgot little puppies.

The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that’s why he tries to bite the mailman.

A leaky faucet, a barking dog – those are things you tolerate.

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.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.

I look into your great brown eyes, Where love and loyal homage shine, And wonder where the difference lies Between your soul and mine!

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.