"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."
Andrew A. Rooney

"Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail."
Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)

"Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."
Mark Twain

"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

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

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

"No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich." 
Louis Sabin

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

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

 "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

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

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

 "The biggest dog has been a pup."
Joaquin Miller

"The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs."
Jeanne-Marie Roland 

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

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

"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

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

 "To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."
Aldous Huxley

 "Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you."
Mary Bly

"The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals."
James Thurber

"Know thyself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
Ann Landers

  "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

"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 'Old Dogs, Old Friends' 

  "A dog wags its tail with its heart."