Life According to DOG

Qui me amat, amet et canem meum.

- St. Bernard de Clairvaux

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Breed not a savage dog, nor permit a loose stairway.

- Talmud

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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

- Robert Benchley

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I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

- Rita Rudner

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You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

- Nora Ephron

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If your dog thinks you’re the greatest person in the world, don’t seek a second opinion.

- Jim Fiebig

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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

* Here the poet errs: Of course, dogs are jealous. Anyone who owned more than one dog at a time knows that.

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

- Gene Hill

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Properly trained, a man can be a dog’s best friend.

- Corey Ford

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If Dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

- Andy Rooney

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A house without either a cat or a dog is the house of a scoundrel.

- Portuguese Proverb

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Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

– Groucho Marx

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You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, ‘My God, you’re right! I never would’ve thought of that!’

- Dave Barry

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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

- Robert A. Heinlein

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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

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When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

- Edward Abbey

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I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

- Abraham Lincoln

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I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.

- Unknown

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Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

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