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Dogs

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. – Woodrow Wilson

Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger. – Albert Payson Terhune

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. – Josh Billings

I wonder what goes through his mind when he sees us peeing in his water bowl. – Penny Ward Moser

A dog can express more with his tail in seconds than his owner can express with his tongue in hours. – Author Unknown

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. – Will Rogers

I named my dog Stay so I can say, “Come here, Stay. Come here, Stay.” – Steven Wright

When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog along to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten. – Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

If you can look at a dog and not feel vicarious excitement and affection, you must be a cat. – Carrie Latet

The more one gets to know of men, the more one values dogs. – Alphonse Toussenel

When a dog wants to hang out the “Do Not Disturb” sign, as all of us do now and then, he is regarded as a traitor to his species. – Ramona C. Albert

Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience. – Jon Winokur

The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor. – Margo Kaufman

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other. – Robert Benchley

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

Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs are… – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889

Labradors [are] lousy watchdogs. They usually bark when there is a stranger about, but it is an expression of unmitigated joy at the chance to meet somebody new, not a warning. – Norman Strung

Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland. – Josh Billings