The Quotable Dog

Here are my favorite dog quotes, not coincidentally on a day that I am terribly missing my boy:

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.

~Maurice Maeterlinck

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

~Ambrose Bierce

Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend.

~Corey Ford

The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.

~Plato

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

~Unknown

The dog is the only animal that has seen his god.

~Unknown

My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.

~Unknown

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

~Will Rogers

If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them.

~Phil Pastoret

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 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

My little dog---a heartbeat at my feet.

~Edith Wharton

The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's.

~Polish Proverb

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

~Ben Williams