Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never […]
Dogs Quotes
The dog barks, the caravan passes on. The words had a sort of bloom on them, But were weightless, carrying past what was being said.
Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life.
Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God.
If a dog doesn’t put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn’t happen you are only keeping an animal.
He’s got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he’s reading the blasted things.
Mrs. Darling loved to have everything just so, and Mr. Darling had a passion for being exactly like his neighbors; so, of course, they had a nurse. As they were poor, owing to the amount of milk the children drank, this nurse was a prim Newfoundland dog, called Nana, who had belonged to no one […]
(My dog) can bark like a congressman, fetch like an aide, beg like a press secretary and play dead like a receptionist when the phone rings.
The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.
Anybody who hates dogs and children can’t be all bad.
