SOME VERY FINE QUOTES

When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.
    --Sara Paretsky

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
    --Josh Billings



When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
    --Edward Abbey



When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal.  When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
    --Joseph Wood Krutch



I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls.  They always say because it's such a beautiful animal.  There you go.  I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
    --Ellen DeGeneres









There are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog
that you can get from no other source.
    --Doris Day

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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



A dog will teach you unconditional love.  If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.
    --Robert Wagner



A dog is a dog except when he is facing you.  Then he is Mr. Dog.
    --A Haitian Farmer

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The dog represents all that is best in man.
    --Etienne Charlet