Dogs

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. --Josh Billings

Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. --Mark Twain

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

Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves. --Clarence Day

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

Animals are such agreeable friends -- they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. --George Eliot

A dog's best friend is his illiteracy. --Ogden Nash

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. --Mark Twain

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, what counts is the size of the fight in the dog. --Mark Twain

The reason dogs have so many friends is because they wag their tails instead of their tongues. --Unknown

There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog. --Konrad Z. Lorenz

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. --Agnes Repplier

Dogs come when they are called. Cats take a message and get back to you. --Mary Bly

Dogs look up to you. Cats look down on you. Give me a pig. He just looks you in the eye and treats you like an equal. --Winston Churchill

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic. --Henry Ward Beecher

If dogs could talk, perhaps we'd find it just as hard to get along with them as we do people. --Karel Caprek

Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be. --Holbrook Jackson

The more I see of the representatives of the people the more I admire my dogs. --Alphonse de Lamartine

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

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. --August Strindberg