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Many people have sighed for the 'good old days' and regretted the 'passing of the horse,' but today, when only those who like horses own them, it is a far better time for horses.

-- C.W. Anderson

Riding: The art of keeping a horse between you and the ground.

-- Author Unknown

A dog maybe a man's best friend but a horse made history...

-- Anonymous

There are two important rules in horse-riding. The first is to mount the horse. The second is to stay mounted.

-- Anon

We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses.

-- Osbert Sitwell

A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.

-- E V Lucas

He flung himself on his horse and rode off madly in all directions.

-- Stephen Leacock

A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.

-- Duke of Edinburgh

Never ride your horse more than five-and-thirty miles a day, always taking more care of him than of yourself; which is right and reasonable, seeing as how the horse is the best animal of the two.

-- George Borrow

To confess that you are totally Ignorant about the horse, is social suicide: you will be despised by everybody, especially the horse.

-- W C Sellar

Yankee Doodle camer to town Riding on a pony; Stuck a feather in his cap And called it macaroni.

-- Anonymous - Nursery Rhyme

The burden is equal to the horse's strength.

-- The Talmud

A fly, Sir may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other a horse still.

-- Samuel Johnson

In England I would rather be a man, a horse, a dog or a woman, in that order. In America I think the order would be reversed.

-- Bruce Gould

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

-- Elizabeth Taylor

The cat lets Man support her. But unlike the dog, she is no hand-licker. Furthermore, unlike Man's other good friend, the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catch mice and rats, and that's fun.

-- Vance Packard

Look not a gift horse in the mouth.

-- Unknown

I've fallen in love with my horse. It's a safer bet. We all know from my illustrious past that I should be sticking to men with four legs.

-- Sharon Stone

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

-- Benjamin Franklin

Treat a horse like a woman and a woman like a horse. And they'll both win for you.

-- Elizabeth Arden

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

-- Jacqueline Kennedy

Horses just naturally have mohawk haircuts.

-- Unknown

A horse divided against itself cannot stand.

-- from Student Bloopers

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him backstroke.

-- Unknown

A Horse! A Horse! my kingdom for a horse!

-- Shakespeare

A horse gallops with his lungs, Perseveres with his heart, And wins with his character.

-- Tesio

When the cat's away, the mice will play.

-- Western Europe Proverb

When the mouse laughs at the cat there's a hole nearby.

-- Nigerian Proverb

The turtle lays thousands of eggs without anyone knowing, but when the hen lays an egg, the whole country is informed.

-- Malaysian Proverb

A kind word can attract even the snake from his nest.

-- Saudi Arabian Proverb

Pagett, MP The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth-point goes; The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to the road.

-- Rudyard Kipling

Toads are conservative animals, I think, and not much given to expecting the best from fortune. Some weeks ago, well before the end of October, I accidentally dug up one while turning over some garden earth. I was surprised, naturally, when one of the clods heaved over on its side and there, in some annoyance, sat a toad.

-- Henry Mitchell

I never suffer any of my family to kill those little innocent animals called striped snakes, for they do me much service in destroying grasshoppers and other troublesome insects. Toads are of essential service, especially in a garden, to eat up cabbage worms, caterpillars, etc..

-- Farmer's Almanac

It's not easy being green.

-- Kermit the Frog

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed in keeping rabbits.

-- Dame Edith Sitwell

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.

-- R E Shay

The world has different owners at sunrise ... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat who never appears in daytime patrols the brick walls, and a golden-tailed pheasant glints his way through the iris spears.

-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Rabbits have a habit of coming for breakfast and staying for lunch. Now there's one leaf instead of a bunch.

-- Gerry Krueger

To a Mouse The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley.

-- Robert Burns

Rats greet you, they interact, they try to please. They are as close to a dog as you're going to get in a rodent.

-- Elizabeth Fucci

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse.

-- Walt Disney

Mickey Mouse was the star in the early days, but he was too much of a Mr Nice Guy.

-- Jack Hannah

When rats leave a sinking ship, where exactly do they think they're going?

-- Douglas Gauck

Just when you think you've won the rat race along come faster rats.

-- Unknown

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

-- James Bryant Conant

I identify most strongly with the turtle: I patiently plod along till I reach my destination--and occasionally I stick out my neck.

-- Paulette Peltan

Snake A snake came to my water-trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat, To drink there.

-- D H Lawrence

Method is more important than strength . . . By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed to have a passerby kill the snake for the beads.

-- Siddha Nagarjuna

The little fishes of the sea, They sent an answer back to me. The little fishes' answer was "We cannot do it, Sir, because--"

-- Lewis Carroll

"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail! See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance: They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance?"

-- Lewis Carroll

Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?

-- Rupert Brooke

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

-- Chinese Proverb

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

-- Rose F. Kennedy

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

-- Henry Ward Beecher

When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast.

-- John Burroughs

A Robin Redbreast in a cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage.

-- William Blake

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

-- Robert Lynd

Use the talents you possess - for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best.

-- Henry Van Dyke

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

-- Jacques Deval

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

-- J.G. Holland

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

-- Eric Berne

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

-- Izaak Walton

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

-- Henry David Thoreau

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

-- Joseph Addison

But most of all the small pig likes to sit down and sink down in good, soft mud.

-- Arnold Lobel

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. 'Pooh!' he whispered. 'Yes, Piglet?' 'Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. 'I just wanted to be sure of you.'

-- A.A. Milne

The first pig, but the last whelp of a litter, is best.

-- Proverb

Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries, and you'll have a fine pig and a bad child.

-- Proverb

Feed a pig and you'll have a hog.

-- Proverb

'Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling Your ring?' Said the Piggy, 'I will.'

-- Edward Lear

By and by Piglet woke up. As soon as he woke he said to himself, 'Oh!' Then he said bravely, 'Yes,' and then, still more bravely, 'Quite so.' But he didn't feel very brave, for the word which was really jiggeting about in his brain was 'Heffalumps.' What was a Heffalump like? Was it Fierce? Did it come when you whistled? And how did it come? Was it Fond of Pigs at all? If it was Fond of Pigs, did it make any difference What sort of Pig?

-- A. A. Milne

'What are you?' 'Ewe' said the sheep. 'No, not me, you - what are you?' 'I'm a ewe.' Mum was right, thought Babe, they certainly are stupid. But if I'm going to learn how to be a sheep-pig I must try to understand them, and this could be a good chance. Perhaps I could make a friend of this one. 'My name's Babe,' he said in a jolly voice. 'What's yours?'

-- Dick King-Smith

'Little pig, little pig, let me come in!' 'Not by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin!'

-- Traditional

Pigtails Cute pink curly tails On small plump pink pigs Twist into tight springs.

-- Allison Tremblay

Whose little pigs are these, these, these? Whose little pigs are these? They are Roger the Cook's, I know by their looks; I found them among my peas.

-- Traditional

Pigs is Pigs.

-- Ellis Parker Butler

Little pig Robinson was a charming little fellow; pinky white with small blue eyes, fat cheeks and a double chin, and a turned-up nose, with a real silver ring in it. Robinson could see that ring if he shut one eye and squinted sideways.

-- Beatrix Potter

This little piggy went to market. This little piggy stayed home. This little piggy had roast beef. This little piggy had none. This little piggy went "Wee wee wee!" all the way home.

-- Traditional

The sunny slow lulling afternoon yawns and moons through the dozy town...Pigs grunt in a wet wallow-bath, and smile as they snort and dream. They dream of the acorned swill of the world, the rooting for pig-fruit...

-- Dylan Thomas

'Some pig!' muttered Lurvy in a low voice. 'Some pig!' whispered Mr. Zuckerman. They stared and stared for a long time at Wilbur. Then they stared at Charlotte.

-- E.B. White

Pigs are very beautiful animals...There is no point of view from which a really corpulent pig is not full of sumptuous and satisfying curves.

-- G.K. Chesterton

Pig The pig is bigger Than we had thought And not so pink, Fringed with white Hairs that look Gray, because while They say a pig is clean, It is not always; still, We like this cheerful, Rich, soft-bellied beast - It wants to be comfortable, And does not care much How the thing is managed.

-- Valerie Worth

Pa looked up from the mice to the ground, up at his arms, and back to the mice again. A pink glow spread over his bald patch as the idea slowly grew. Now he knew what the surprise would be. 'But... but pigs can't. Pigs don't...' he said. 'But pigs might!' chorused the excited mice.

-- Liz Underhill

'The time has come,' the Walrus said, 'To talk of many things: Of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax - Of cabbages - and kings - And why the sea is burning hot - And whether pigs have wings.'

-- Lewis Carroll

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that has the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

-- Dale Carnegie

If you want a kitten, start out by asking for a horse.

-- Naomi, 15 Advice from Kids

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

-- Daniel Boone

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

-- Dale Carnegie

Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.

-- Augustus Hare

It is better to cut off the sleeve of your best robe than to disturb a sleeping cat.

-- The Prophet

Dogs are eternally grateful that humans exist, Cats, however, are simply mildly appreciative!

-- Carl Brizzi

Happiness is like a cat sleeping on your lap. You can't force it to come to you and you can't force it to stay with you.

-- Pierre Foglia

There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats.

-- Anonymous

The cat is the mirror of his human's mind… the dog mirrors his human's physical appearance.

-- Winifred Carriere

A dog knows his master, a cat does not

-- Eleasar B.

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

-- Steven Wright

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

-- Robertson Davies

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods, they have never forgotten this.

-- Unknown

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer

-- Alfred North

Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much as he likes?

-- Fernand Mery

My cat does not talk as respectfully to me as I do to her.

-- Colette

The smart cat doesn't let on that he is.

-- H. G. Wells

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

-- Jim Davis

If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here.'

-- Roy Blount

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.

-- Wesley Bates

It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.

-- Pierre Loti

A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.

-- Albert Einstein

When I play with my cat who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

-- Michel De

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!

-- Theophile Gautier

When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.

-- Sarah Orne

Ye shall not possess any beast, my dear sisters, except only a cat.

-- The Ancren

The little furry buggers are just deep, deep wells you throw all your emotions into.

-- Bruce Schimmel

The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.

-- P.G. Wodehouse

Do our cats name us? My former husband swore that Humphrey and Dolly and Bean Blossom called me The Big Hamburger.

-- Eleanora Walker

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

-- James Herriot

A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.

-- Jerome K.

Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.

-- Eleanor Farjeon

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal...one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

-- Theophile Gautier

Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish.

-- James Gorman

Most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked about the house with a saintly expression.

-- Beverly Nichols

Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own.

-- John Dingman

Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their lives fulfilling their expectations.

-- Irving Townsend

It's very hard to be polite if you're a cat.

-- Anonymous

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.

-- Theophile Gautier

Cat: There is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest, for there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.

-- Christopher Smart

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

-- Joseph Wood

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.

-- Theophile Gautier

How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven.

-- Robert A.

There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.

-- Carl Van

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

-- Joseph Wood

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

-- W.L. George

As we all know, cats now rule the world.

-- John R.F.

A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution.

-- Hazel Nicholson

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

-- Jeff Valdez

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

-- George F.

Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives?

-- Louis J.

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction--and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

-- Stephen Baker

The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.

-- Ernest Menaul

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

-- Mark Twain

God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of caressing the tiger.

-- Fernand Mery

The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.

-- George Will

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

-- Winston Churchhill

A golden bit doesn't make your horse any better

-- Amanda

There are no ordinary cats.

-- Colette

A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.

-- Joseph Epstein

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

-- Monica Edwards

If cats could talk, they wouldn't.

-- Nan Porter

As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.

-- Ellen Perry

An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five year old.

-- Carl Van

Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.

-- Jean Burden

Cats don't like change without their consent.

-- Roger A.

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

-- Hippolyte Taine

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten?

-- Samuel Butler

To err is human, to purr is feline.

-- Robert Byrne

Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

-- Oliver Herford

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

-- Leonardo Da Vinci

Cats are designated friends.

-- Norman Corwin

By associating with the cat one only risks becoming richer.

-- Colette

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

-- Jean Cocteau

The more people I meet the more I like my cat.

-- Anonymous

Acquiring a dog may be the only time a person gets to choose a relative.

-- Unknown

A dog is the only thing that can fill the void in your empty heart

-- Kate

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

-- Groucho Marx

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement

-- Snoopy

Have you hugged your pug today?

-- Marty Moose

A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well - almost.

-- Charlotte Gray

A well-trained dog will make no attempt to share your lunch. He will just make you feel so guilty that you cannot enjoy it.

-- Helen Thomson

A dog is nothing but a furry person.

-- Anonymous

I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs.

-- Barbara Woodhouse

The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.

-- Daniel Pinkwater

There is no faith which has never yet been broken except that of a truly faithful dog.

-- Konrad Lorenz

Intelligent dogs rarely want to please people whom they do not respect.

-- W.R. Koehler

Many dogs will give a greeting grin much like a human smile.

-- Richard A.

A collie has the brain of a man, and the ways of a woman.

-- Scottish Proverb

Happiness is a warm puppy.

-- Charles Schulz

Disney's "Shaggy Dog" was bought for 2 dollars at a pound.

-- World Features

Old Yeller was bought for 3 dollars from a shelter; his real name was Spike.

-- World Features

Any time you think you have influence, try ordering around someone else's dog.

-- The Cockle

You own a dog; you feed a cat.

-- Jim Fiebig

When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget they're not people.

-- Julia Glass

No animal I know of can consistently be more of a friend and companion than a dog.

-- Stanley Leinwoll

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

-- Rita Rudner

You can't keep a good man down -- or an over affectionate dog.

-- Anonymous

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

-- Robert Louis

I can train any dog in 5 minutes. It's training the owner that takes longer.

-- Barbara Woodhouse

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

-- Franklin P.

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

-- Max Eastman

A dog's bark may be worse than his bite, but it's never quite so personal

-- Anonymous

It's no coincidence that man's best friend cannot talk.

-- Anonymous

Every dog may have his day, buy it's the puppies that have the weakends.

-- Anonymous

There is only one smartest dog in the world, and every boy has it.

-- Anonymous

A dog can express more with his tail in minutes than his owner can express with his tongue in hours.

-- Anonymous

A dog's bark may be worse than his bite, but everyone prefers his bark.

-- Anonymous

There's just something about dogs that makes you feel good. You come home, they're thrilled to see you. They're good for the ego.

-- Janet Schnellman

A watchdog is a dog kept to guard your home, usually by sleeping where a burglar would awaken the household by falling over him.

-- Anonymous

A good dog deserves a good home.

-- Proverb

The dog has got more fun out of man than man has got out of the dog, for man is the more laughable of the two animals.

-- James Thurber

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

-- Roger Caras

A dog is man's best friend, and vice versa.

-- Anonymous

A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.

-- O. A.

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

Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress.

-- Louis Sabin

Every boy who has a dog should also have a mother, so the dog can be fed regularly.

-- Anonymous

The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.

-- George Graham

The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue

-- Anonymous

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. It is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

-- Mark Twain

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

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

-- Ann Landers

Every dog must have his day.

-- Jonathan Swift

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

-- Martha Scott

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

-- Alexander Pope

Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives.

-- Sue Murphy

To his dog, every man is Napolean, hence the constant popularity of dogs.

-- Aldous Huxley

The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.

-- Henry Ward

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

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

-- Roger Caras

A piece of grass a day keeps the vet away

-- Unknown Dog

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

-- Josh Billings

No Matter how little money and how few possessions, you own, having a dog makes you rich.

-- Louis Sabin

I once decided not to date a guy because he wasn't excited to meet my dog. I mean, this was like not wanting to meet my mother.

-- Bonnie Schacter

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

-- Edward Hoagland

The more people I meet the more I like my dog

-- Unknown

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

If your dog doesn't like someone you probably shouldn't either.

-- Unknown

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

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

-- Unknown

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

-- Andrew A.

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

-- Josh Billings

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.

-- Christopher Morley

Whoever said you can’t buy happiness forgot about little puppies.

-- Gene Hill

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

-- Ben Williams

The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.

-- Maeterlinck

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

-- Capek

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