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

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

My dog is usually pleased with what I do, because she is not infected with the concept of what I should be doing.

If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence, try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations.

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

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

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

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Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail.

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

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The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren’t certain we knew better.

A man’s soul can be judged by the way he treats his dog.

I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like a conscience.