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#1

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
― Mark Twain

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#2

“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
― Will Rogers

tags: afterlife, death, dogs, heaven

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#3

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”
― Josh Billings

tags: animals, dogs

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“All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed.
For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: animals, dogs, humans

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#5

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
― Jack London

tags: charity, dogs, sharing

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#6

“Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.
It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.”
― John grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog

tags: animals, dogs, love, pets

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#7

“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

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#8

“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.”
― Andy Rooney

tags: dogs, humanity, kindness, man

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#9

“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”
― Roger Caras

tags: dogs, life

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#10

“The more boys I meet the more I love my dog.”
― Carrie Underwood

tags: boys, carrie-underwood, dogs, love

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#11

“Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

tags: anthromorphism, dogs, pets

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#12

“Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made. ”
― Roger Caras

tags: dogs, faith, love

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#13

“It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.”
― John Grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog

tags: dogs, relationships

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#14

“Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.”
― Dave Barry

tags: bark, dogs, feel

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#15

“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

tags: dogs

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#16

“After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.”
― Robert R. McCammon, Boy's Life

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#17

“The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with that, kiss you. There are no ulterior motives with a dog, no mind games, no second-guessing, no complicated negotiations or bargains, and no guilt trips or grudges if a request is denied.”
― Caroline Knapp

tags: agenda, animals, dogs, simple

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#18

“I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

tags: dogs

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#19

“Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.”
― Gene Hill

tags: animals, dogs

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#20

“Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.”
― Agnes Sligh Turnbull

tags: dogs

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#21

“People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.”
― Jim Butcher, White Night

tags: dogs

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#22

“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.”
― Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

tags: dogs

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#23

“In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.”
― W. H. Auden

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#24

“You can say any fool thing to a dog and the dog will just give you this look that says, 'My GOSH, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!”
― Dave Barry

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#25

“Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss; it's about taking
responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.”
― Cesar Millan, Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life

tags: animals, discipline, dogs

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#26

“I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.”
― John Steinbeck

tags: contempt, dogs, human, nuts

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#27

“You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Journey

tags: dogs

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#28

“I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.”
― Bill Murray

tags: bill-murray, dislike, dogs, like, person, trust

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#29

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

tags: dogs, dogs-loyalty, fear

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#30

“Over the years I've come to appreciate how animals enter our lives prepared to teach and far from being burdened by an inability to speak they have many different ways to communicate. It is up to us to listen more than hear, to look into more than past.”
― Nick Trout, Love Is the Best Medicine: What Two Dogs Taught One Veterinarian about Hope, Humility, and Everyday Miracles

tags: dogs, love, pets

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