With the exception of women, there is nothing on earth so agreeable or necessary to the comfort of man as the dog. – Edward Jesse, Anecdote of Dogs

You may drive a dog off the Kings armchair, and it will climb into the preachers pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed. – Jean De La Bruyere

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

The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. – Author Unknown