The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.

—Henry Ward Beecher

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

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have know will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

—James Thurber

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

—Mark Twain

Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy you the wag of his tail.

—Henry Wheeler Shaw

Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog’s face, he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car, he sticks his head out the window.

—Steve Bluestone

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

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

—Louis Sabin

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

—Robert Benchley

Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

—Ann Landers

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

—Groucho Marx

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

—Franklin Jones

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

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

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

–Roger Caras