You gonna eat that? You gonna eat that? You gonna eat that? I’ll eat that.

––Birch Shepard

Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

 ––Mark Twain

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

––Ogden Nash

My little dog – a heartbeat at my feet.

—Edith Wharton

She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.

––Lloyd Alexander

Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dog.

––Ernest Thompson Seton

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

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.

––Milan Kundera

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

If you don’t own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.                                                                                     —Roger Caras

The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic.     ––Henry Ward Beecher

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

Sir, this is a unique dog. He does not live by tooth or fang. He respects the right of cats to be cats although he doesn’t admire them. He turns his steps rather than disturb an earnest caterpillar. His greatest fear is that someone will point out a rabbit and suggest that he chase it. This is a dog of peace and tranquility.                                                          ––John Steinbeck

Being patted is what it is all about.                          ––Roger Caras