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"Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all there is. They are quick to forgive trespasses and assume strangers will be kind."
"A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist."
"I had a dog who loved flowers. Briskly she went through the fields, yet paused for the honeysuckle or the rose, her dark head and her wet nose touching the face of every one with its petals of silk with its fragrance rising into the air where the bees, their bodies heavy with pollen hovered - and easily she adored every blossom not in the serious careful way that we choose this blossom or that blossom the way we praise or don't praise - the way we love or don't love - but the way we long to be - that happy in the heaven of earth - that wild, that loving."
"I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters."
"In America they got two policemen, five policemen and one car watching each other, each has got a pistol, one has got a machine gun, one' got a shotgun and two dogs growling at each other."
"There is nothing truer in this world than the love of a good dog."
"The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals."
"Dogs are very, very pleasant with people that they're connected to."
"Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable."
"You asked for a loving God: you have one... The consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for his work and despotic as a man's love for a dog, provident and venerable as a father's love for a child, jealous, inexorable, exacting as love between the sexes. How this should be, I do not know: it passes reason to explain why any creatures, not to say creatures such as we, should have a value so prodigious in their Creator's eyes."
"Allow your dog to take you for a walk every day. It's good for the body and it's good for the soul."
"A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right."
"People can be a fine substitute for other dogs. But I think that if they had to choose, dogs by and large would choose the company of other dogs."
"Dogs do tricks. Cats play tricks."
"Cats always land on their feet. Dogs don't."
"You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself."
"Not everyone is comfortable with the kissing ritual. My husband is one of them. Her refuses to press lips with anyone except his wife, mother, and dog. If someone wanted to give him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, he would refuse until he had been formally introduced."
"My dog keeps looking at me as if he knows my secret, as if he and he alone can see my soul. That or he wants this pork chop."
"Dogs are more loyal. Cats are fickle."
"I pray the gods will give me some relief and end this weary job. One long full year I've been lying here, on this rooftop, the palace of the sons of Atreus, resting on my arms, just like a dog. I've come to know the night sky, every star, the powers we see glittering in the sky, bringing winter and summer to us all, as the constellations rise and sink."
