05-12-16, 11:01 PM
Some quotes to sum up having a dog. Still miss mine after nearly 30 yrs....had him from a pup. Read them and pick one that's not true.
“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Robert Benchley[/color] (humorist and actor, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Broadway Melody of 1938[/color]
“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Josh Billings[/color] (a.k.a. Henry Wheeler Shaw; humorist and lecturer)
“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”
—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Roger Caras[/color] (photographer and writer)
“The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.”―[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]M.K[/color][color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]. Clinton[/color] (author, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]The Returns[/color]
“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Charles de Gaulle[/color] (former President of the French Republic)
“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Johnny Depp[/color] (actor, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Pirates of the Caribbean[/color]
“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Emily Dickinson[/color] (poet, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Hope Is the Thing with Feathers[/color]
“Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?”
—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Jonathan Safran Foer[/color] (author, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close[/color]
“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.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Sigmund Freud[/color] (psychoanalyst)
“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Robert A. Heinlein[/color] (author, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Starship Troopers[/color]
“When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it’s hard to feel sad.” ―[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Kristan[/color][color=rgb(167, 28, 32)] Higgins[/color] (author, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]In Your Dreams[/color])
“There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog — waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Lee Iacocca[/color] (former president and CEO of Chrysler)
“Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.” :lol —Franklin P. Jones (humorist and PR executive)
“A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.”―[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Barbara[/color][color=rgb(167, 28, 32)] Kingsolver[/color] (author, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Animal Dreams: A Novel[/color]
“When the Man waked up he said, ‘What is Wild Dog doing here?’ And the Woman said, ‘His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.'”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Rudyard Kipling[/color] (author, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]The Jungle Book[/color]
“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Dean Koontz[/color] (author, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Whispers[/color]
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Groucho Marx[/color] (comedian)
“Dogs don’t rationalize. They don’t hold anything against a person. They don’t see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Cesar Millan[/color] (dog trainer)
“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Marilyn Monroe[/color] (actress, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Some Like It Hot[/color]
“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Christopher Morley[/color] (author, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Kitty Foyle[/color])
“If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Phil Pastoret[/color] (author, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Our Boarding House[/color]) :lol
“I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Gilda Radner[/color] (comedienne)
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Will Rogers[/color] (actor, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Connecticut Yankee [VHS][/color]
“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Andy Rooney[/color] (contributor, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]60 Minutes[/color])[size=78%]
“If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman’s pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]George Bernard Shaw[/color] (playwright)
“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.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]John Steinbeck[/color] (author, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]The Grapes of Wrath[/color]
“You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Robert Louis Stevenson[/color] (author, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Treasure Island[/color]
“If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.”
—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]James Thurber[/color] (author, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]The Secret Life of Walter Mitty[/color]
“Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Mark Twain[/color] (author, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]The Adventures of Tom Sawyer[/color]
“A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won’t be too bad.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Robert Wagner[/color] (actor, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]The Longest Day[/color][/size]
“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Robert Benchley[/color] (humorist and actor, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Broadway Melody of 1938[/color]
“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Josh Billings[/color] (a.k.a. Henry Wheeler Shaw; humorist and lecturer)
“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”
—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Roger Caras[/color] (photographer and writer)
“The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.”―[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]M.K[/color][color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]. Clinton[/color] (author, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]The Returns[/color]
“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Charles de Gaulle[/color] (former President of the French Republic)
“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Johnny Depp[/color] (actor, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Pirates of the Caribbean[/color]
“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Emily Dickinson[/color] (poet, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Hope Is the Thing with Feathers[/color]
“Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?”
—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Jonathan Safran Foer[/color] (author, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close[/color]“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.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Sigmund Freud[/color] (psychoanalyst)
“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Robert A. Heinlein[/color] (author, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Starship Troopers[/color]
“When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it’s hard to feel sad.”
―[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Kristan[/color][color=rgb(167, 28, 32)] Higgins[/color] (author, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]In Your Dreams[/color])“There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog — waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Lee Iacocca[/color] (former president and CEO of Chrysler)
“Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.” :lol —Franklin P. Jones (humorist and PR executive)
“A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.”―[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Barbara[/color][color=rgb(167, 28, 32)] Kingsolver[/color] (author, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Animal Dreams: A Novel[/color]
“When the Man waked up he said, ‘What is Wild Dog doing here?’ And the Woman said, ‘His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.'”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Rudyard Kipling[/color] (author, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]The Jungle Book[/color]
“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Dean Koontz[/color] (author, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Whispers[/color]
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Groucho Marx[/color] (comedian)
“Dogs don’t rationalize. They don’t hold anything against a person. They don’t see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Cesar Millan[/color] (dog trainer)
“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Marilyn Monroe[/color] (actress, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Some Like It Hot[/color]
“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Christopher Morley[/color] (author, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Kitty Foyle[/color])
“If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Phil Pastoret[/color] (author, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Our Boarding House[/color]) :lol
“I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Gilda Radner[/color] (comedienne)
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Will Rogers[/color] (actor, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Connecticut Yankee [VHS][/color]
“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Andy Rooney[/color] (contributor, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]60 Minutes[/color])[size=78%]
“If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman’s pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]George Bernard Shaw[/color] (playwright)
“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.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]John Steinbeck[/color] (author, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]The Grapes of Wrath[/color]
“You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Robert Louis Stevenson[/color] (author, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Treasure Island[/color]
“If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.”
—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]James Thurber[/color] (author, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]The Secret Life of Walter Mitty[/color]
“Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Mark Twain[/color] (author, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]The Adventures of Tom Sawyer[/color]
“A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won’t be too bad.”—[color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]Robert Wagner[/color] (actor, [color=rgb(167, 28, 32)]The Longest Day[/color][/size]
Those are my principles...if you don't like them I have others.