I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

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

Folk will know how large your soul is, by the way you treat a dog!

The dog has an enviable mind; it remembers the nice things in life and quickly blots out the nasty.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

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

It is fatal to let any dog know she is funny, for she immediately loses her head and starts hamming it up.

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity human ever has to choose a relative.

Brothers and Sisters I bid you beware Of giving your heart for a dog to tear.

Anyone who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.

Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this – one dog does not change a bone with another.

My goal in life is to become as wonderful as my dog thinks I am.

When a man’s dog turns against him it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.

If you don’t own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

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

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

You always sympathize with the underdog, except when the other dog is yours.

Never judge a dog’s pedigree by the kind of books he does not chew.