"The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother -
and they'll settle for a puppy everytime"
Winston Pendelton
"A man's best friend is his dog"
Lord Byron
"Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence,
Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man without his Vices.
This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery, if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just Tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog."
John Cam Hobhouse (1786 1869), British statesman.
Inscription on the monument raised for Lord Byron's dog, Boatswain, in
the grounds of Newstead Abbey, Byron's seat in Nottinghamshire
"Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."
Mark Twain
"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."
Aldous Huxley
"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face."
Ben Williams
"Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails."
Max Eastman
"Those sighs of a dog! They go to
the heart so much more deeply than the sighs of our own kind because they
hearing them, knows not that they have escaped him!"
John Galsworthy
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's much too dark to read."
Groucho Marx
The great pleasure of a dog
is that you may make a fool of yourself with her and not only will
she not scold you, but will make a fool of herself too.
Samuel Butler
"Yesterday, I was a dog.
Today, I am a dog.
Tomorrow, I well probably be a dog.
There's just so little hope of advancement."
Snoopy
The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this seflish world, the one that never deserts him...is his dog. A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and poverty, in health and sickness. he will sleep on the cold ground, when the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he can be near his master's side. He will kiss the hand that has no food. He guards the sleep of a pauper as if he were a prince.
If foutune drives the master forth, an outcast in the world, the faithful dog asks no higher priviliege than that of accompanying him to guard against danger, to fight against his enemies, and when the last scene of all comes, and death takes the master in its embrace, there by his graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true.
George Graham Vest
"Why Do We Speak of the 'Dog-Days of
Summer?
The Dog-days cover the hottest period of summer, from July 3rd to August 11th, when the weather is sultry and the air stifling. People often puzzle over the connection between the time of great heat and the dog. This is not surprising, as the link is obscure. It dates back to Roman times, when it was believed that Sirius, the Dogstar, added its heat to that of the sun during this period, creating the exceptionally high temperatures. They called this period of the year dies caniculares, or days of the dog.
Although it is of course nonsense to suggest that the Dogstar adds to the sunŐs heat in summer, since the star is 540,000 times as distant as the sun, the Romans did at least guess correctly about its temperature. We now know that it gives a reading of 10,000 degrees C, which is roughly twice that of the sun.
Because people were ignorant of this ancient origin of the term dog-days,
they later assumed incorrectly that it referred to the time of year when
the heat was so oppressive that it drove dogs mad, causing them to rush
about in a frenzy. Some dogs may indeed have suffered from the heat, especially
in the Mediterranean region, but their association with the term was a
mere afterthought."
Illustrated DogWatching
Desmond Morris
"Until one has loved an animal a part of
one's soul remains unawakened"
Anatole France
"I, who had had my heart full for hours, took
advantage of an early moment of solitude, to cry in it very bitterly.
Suddenly a little hairy head thrust itself from behind my pillow into
my face, rubbing its ears and nose against me in a responsive agitation,
and drying the tears as they came."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning