Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

—Roger Caras

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

 ––Mark Twain

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

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

Dogs feel 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

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

––Ogden Nash

My mother thought it would make us feel better to know that animals had no souls, and thus their deaths were not to be taken seriously. But it didn’t help, and when I think of some of the animals I have known, I wonder. The only really “soulful” eyes in the world belong to the dog or cat who sits on your lap or at your feet, commiserating when you cry.              ––Liz Smith

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

Scratch a dog, and you’ll find a permanent job.

—Franklin Jones

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

My little dog — a heartbeat at my feet.        —Edith Wharton