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If a dog
doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation?
A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It
even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year.
If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.
-- Enid Bagnold
1889-1981, British Novelist,
Playwright
A dog teaches
a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times
before lying down.
-- Robert Benchley
1889-1945, American Humorist,
Critic, Parodist
Dog. A kind of
additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the
overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
-- Ambrose Bierce
1842-1914, American Author,
Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
The more I see
of men, the more I like dogs.
-- Clara Bow
1965-, American Actress
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You may drive
a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the
preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved,
unembarrassed, unabashed.
-- Jean De La Bruyère
1645-1696, French Classical
Writer
The great
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
1612-1680, British Poet,
Satirist
The nose of
the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can
breathe without letting go.
-- Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman,
Prime Minister
In order to
really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to
be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the
possibility of becoming partly a dog.
-- Edward Hoagland
1932-, American Novelist,
Essayist
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