Jo Lynn > Jo's Quotes

“A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

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

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

“We who choose to surround ourselves
with lives even more temporary than our
own, live within a fragile circle;
easily and often breached.
Unable to accept its awful gaps,
we would still live no other way.
We cherish memory as the only
certain immortality, never fully
understanding the necessary plan.”
― Irving Townsend

“Every dog must have his day.”
― Jonathan Swift

“Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks.”
― Roger Caras

“Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dog.”
― Ernest Thompson Seton

“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

“Talk to her, goddamnit. She ain't a stick of furniture. She is one of God's creatures, and she will hear you. I see these goddamned people walkin' dogs, yakking on their phones, makes me wanna kick their sissy asses. What they got a dog for, they want to talk on their phones? That dog there will understand you, Officer James. She will understand what's in your heart. Am I just shouting at the grass and dog shit out here, or are you reading what I am telling you?”
― Robert Crais, Suspect

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

“They had buried him under our elm tree, they said -- yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.”
― Willie Morris, My Dog Skip

“A dog can express more with his tail in minutes than an owner can express with his tongue in hours.”
― Karen Davison

“There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham - all a sham, James, and it won't stand when things come to be turned inside out and put down for what they”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

“A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.”
― Leo Buscaglia

“If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.”
― Leo Buscaglia

“Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.”
― LEO BUSCAGLIA

“Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, 'Did you bring joy?' The second was, 'Did you find joy?”
― Leo Buscaglia

“Love is life...and if you miss love, you miss life. ”
― Leo Buscaglia

“A single rose can be my garden...a single friend my world”
― Leo Buscaglia

“A single rose can be a garden... a single friend, my world.”
― Leo Buscaglia

“Moderation in all things, especially moderation.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson