My Favourite Dog quotes

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."

—Will Rogers (actor, A Connecticut Yankee)

"Happiness is a warm puppy."
—Charles M. Schulz (cartoonist, Peanuts)

“Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.”
—Agatha Christie (author, Death on the Nile)

A dog is not "almost human", and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.― John Holmes

"I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."
—Abraham Lincoln (16th President of the United States)

“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.”
—Dean Koontz (author, Whispers)

"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us."
—Robert Louis Stevenson (author, Treasure Island)

“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”
—Charles de Gaulle (former President of the French Republic)

“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.”
—Johnny Depp (actor, Pirates of the Caribbean)

"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate."
—Sigmund Freud (psychoanalyst)

“Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.”
—Elizabeth Taylor (actress, Cleopatra)

"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons."
—James Thurber (author, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”)
 

"Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."

—Mark Twain (author, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)

“A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.”
—Robert Wagner (actor, The Longest Day)

"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 (28th President of the United States)

“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. 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

“Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.” 
― Dean Koontz, False Memory

“If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.” 

― Roger A. Caras

“. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.” 
― John Grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog

“I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.” 
― Marie Corelli

“The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.” 
― Stanley Coren

“When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.” 
― Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

“I confronted the fact that I was not only talking to a dog, but answering for one.” 
― Claire Cook, Must Love Dogs

Everyone thinks they have the best dog .And none of them are wrong.

-W.R.Purche

Special Ones;

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” 
― Winston S. Churchill

"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."

—Ann Landers (a.k.a. Eppie Lederer; famous advice columnist)

Don’t know to whom these belong:

·         There is no such thing as a bad day when you come home to a dog

·         You don’t know what real love is until you  are owned by a dog!

·         I don’t care for my dog he takes care of me

-         The best things in life are rescued

 IMP: Please let these quotes not be an inspiration to pick up a puppy, definitely not from a breeder.  Dogs are work and need time & energy. But if you can adopt one from a shelter and be with it for the next 7-9 years it will be a blessed time

And one About Cats:

“Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and stumbles to bring it to you. Do the same before a cat, and he will eye you with coolly polite and somewhat bored amusement. And just as inferior people prefer the inferior animal which scampers excitedly because someone else wants something, so do superior people respect the superior animal which lives its own life and knows that the puerile stick-throwings of alien bipeds are none of its business and beneath its notice. The dog barks and begs and tumbles to amuse you when you crack the whip. That pleases a meekness-loving peasant who relishes a stimulus to his self importance. The cat, on the other hand, charms you into playing for its benefit when it wishes to be amused; making you rush about the room with a paper on a string when it feels like exercise, but refusing all your attempts to make it play when it is not in the humour. That is personality and individuality and self-respect -- the calm mastery of a being whose life is its own and not yours -- and the superior person recognises and appreciates this because he too is a free soul whose position is assured, and whose only law is his own heritage and aesthetic sense.” 
― H.P. Lovecraft

For the non- vegan:
“It's just the way things are. Take a moment to consider this statement. Really think about it. We send one species to the butcher and give our love and kindness to another apparently for no reason other than because it's the way things are. When our attitudes and behaviors towards animals are so inconsistent, and this inconsistency is so unexamined, we can safely say we have been fed absurdities. It is absurd that we eat pigs and love dogs and don't even know why. Many of us spend long minutes in the aisle of the drugstore mulling over what toothpaste to buy. Yet most of don't spend any time at all thinking about what species of animal we eat and why. Our choices as consumers drive an industry that kills ten billion animals per year in the United States alone. If we choose to support this industry and the best reason we can come up with is because it's the way things are, clearly something is amiss. What could cause an entire society of people to check their thinking caps at the door--and to not even realize they're doing so? Though this question is quite complex, the answer is quite simple: carnism.”
― Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others

Extreme one:

“We get a lot of calls where the person is murdered at home, but is not found for a period of time. And so the animals have already started to take the body apart because they haven't been fed in that period. So your evidence is being chewed up by the family pet.

I tell you - Dogs are more loyal than cats. Cats will wait only a certain period of time and they'll start chewing on you. Dogs will wait a day or two before they just can't take the starving anymore. So, keep that in mind when choosing a pet. 

You know how a cat just stares at you, maybe at the top of the TV, from across the room? That's because they're watching to see if you're gonna stop breathing.” 
― Connie Fletcher, Every Contact Leaves a Trace