Inspirational Quotes about Dogs

Here are a few of my favorite quotes about man's best friend:

* "Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail." Henry Wheeler Shaw

* "What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog." Dwight Eisenhower

* "My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpets or ruin our lives." Rita Rudner

* "Even the tiniest Poodle or Chihuahua is still a wolf at heart." Dorothy Hinshaw

* "If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one." Andy Rooney

* "I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world." Samuel Johnson

* "Old dogs, like old shoes, are comfortable. They might be a bit out of shape and a little worn around the edges, but they fit well." Bonnie Wilcox

* "I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it." Abe Lincoln

* "The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. Charles de Gaulle

* "Dogs never bite me. Just humans." Marilyn Monroe

* "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx

* "Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." George Eliot

* "The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's." Mark Twain

* "If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs." Dean Koontz

* "We could have bought a yacht with what we spent on our dog... Then again, how many yachts wait by the door all day for your return?" John Grogan

* "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 a man." Mark Twain

* "If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around." Will Rogers

* "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

* "My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money." Joe Weinstein

* "Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog." Franklin Jones

* "We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment." George Eliot

* "There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face." Ben Williams

* "Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.” Emily Dickinson.

* "A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself." Josh Billings

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

* "Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies." Gene Hill

* "The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog." Ambrose Bierce

* "The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic." Henry Ward Beecher

* "How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg." Abraham Lincoln

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