November 19

"The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable to fall mankind."
Theodorus Gaza

November 17 & 18

"All dogs have the potential to kill packs and kill livestock. Their owners find it hard to believe."

November 16

"The greatest dog in the world....is a companion who does all but speak. He will be gay or serious; he will console you in your lowest moods."
Ludwig Bemelmans

November 15

"When bathing a dog during the winter, be sure the coat is totally dry before letting the dog outside."

November 14

"Like us, they get up early in the morning, and they seek their livelihoods or pursue their pleasures."
Charles Baudelaire

November 13

"Dog saliva contains certain enzymes that help to disinfect and heal wounds."

November 12

"My dog's not spoiled....I'm just well trained!"

November 10 & 11

"I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog."
George Bernard Shaw

November 9

"A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion."
Washington Irving

November 8

"The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs. The world exists through the understanding of dogs."
Nietzsche

November 7

"No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has."
Will Rogers

November 6

"Many assert that Victorian society rejected the notion that pets were capable of feeling or expressing emotions, but that is absurd."

November 5

"Dogs bark as they are bred, and fawn as they are fed."
AB Cheales

November 3 & 4

"Dogs bark at the moon just to keep humans guessing."

November 2

"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult."
Rita Rudner

November 1

"A lot of people think they look like their dogs, but I think dogs are cuter."
Marc-Christophe

October 31

"The friendship of a dog is without a doubt more intense and more constant than that of a man."
Montaigne

October 30

"Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
Thomas A Edison

October 29

"To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair."
Willaim Lyon Phelps

October 27 & 28

"In the 1950's, Lassie's salary was $5,000 per week."

October 26

"Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay."
Albert Einstein

October 25

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

October 24

"Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned by a dog."
Gene Hill

October 23

"The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend."
Lord Byron

October 22

"Some researchers estimate that dogs' olfaction (sense of smell) is a million times more sensitive than ours."

October 20 & 21

"Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets?"
Emile Zola

October 19

"A dog can express more with his tail in minutes than his ownder can express with his tongues in hours."
Anonymous

October 18

"If your dog is defensive of her dinner bowl, try adding a little more to her meal when she is halfway through."

October 17

"In business you learn, 'If you want a friend, get a dog.'"

October 16

"I have always thought of a dog lover as a dog who was in love with another dog."
James Thurber

October 15

"A dog will quickly turn you into a fool, but who cares?"

October 13 & 14

"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion."
Anonymous

October 12

"Reverence. The spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man."
Ambrose Bierce

October 11

"My little dog, a heartbeat at my feet."
Edith Wharton

October 10

"I think dogs are the most amazing creatures' they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model of being alive."
Gilda Radner

October 9

"....none are as fiercely loyal as dog people."
Linda Shrieves

October 8

"Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time."
Henry Beston

October 6 & 7

"I've caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs."
Barbara Woodhouse

October 5

"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 dog."
Edward Hoagland

October 4

"When you really want to put a dog at ease, rub her gently under the chin. Among dogs, this is a sign of respect and love, and it's the way puppies greet adults."

October 3

"I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs."
James Thurber

October 2

"The world's oldest dog was an Australian cattle dog (Blue Heeler) named Bluey who was put to sleep at the age of 29."

October 1

"There is evidence of humans once having tails, but we knocked so many glasses off the table that natural selection eliminated them."

September 29 & 30

"They never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation."
Jerome K Jerome

September 28

"An honest man is not the worse because a dog barks at him."
Danish proverb

September 27

"God, make me the person my dog thinks I am."
Anonymous

September 26

"Dog does not eat dog."
Juvenal

September 25

"The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage."
Danish proverb

September 24

"Chocolate is not always a good thing, it adversely affects a dog's heart and nervous system."

September 22 & 23

"I felt a great sense of excitement and secret power when I followed my dog's lead in burying something of value in the backyard."
Phil Littman

September 21

"Puppies are nature's remedy for feeling unloved....plus numerous other ailments of life."
Richard Allan Palm

September 20

"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends."
Alexander Pope

September 20

"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends."
Alexander Pope

September 19

"My dog is half pit-bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!"
Craig Shoemaker

September 18

"The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?"
Sir Walter Scott

September 17

"A house without a dog is as strange to me as a house without any windows."
Anonymous

September 15 & 16

"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
Immanuel Kant

September 14

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

September 13

"Life is like a dog-sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes."
Lewis Grizzard

September 12

"If a dog's prayers were answered, bones would rain from the sky."
Turkish proverb

September 11

"To live with Louie dog's the only way to stay sane."
Bradley Nowell, the band Sublime

September 10

"A dog a day keeps the doctor away."
Norman Le Blanc

September 8 & 9

"Brothers and sisters, I bid you beward
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear."
Rudyard Kipling

September 7

"Argos, the faithful dog of the Greek hero Odysseus, waited nearly 20 years for his master's return from Troy."

September 6

"The first formal dog show was held in Great Britain at Newcastle in 1859."

September 5

"Seaman was a Newfoundland who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their Louisiana Territory expedition."

September 4

"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."
John Steinbeck

September 3

"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as a dog does."
Christopher Morley

September 1 & 2

"When a dog goes to the bathroom he is also marking his territory--now that's efficiency."
Melly Nau

August 31

"Here, gentleman, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity."
Napolean Bonaparte

August 30

"The greater love is a mother's; then comes a dog's; then a sweetheart's."
Polish proverb

August 30

"The greater love is a mother's; then comes a dog's; then a sweetheart's."
Polish proverb

August 29

"You can't keep a good man down--or an over-affectionate dog."

August 28

"The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls."
Anatole France

August 27

"I feel very sorry for women who continue to buy real fur coats. They are lacking in a woman's most important requisites: heart and sensitivity."
Jayne Meadows

August 25 & 26

"Tennis was invented so that man and dog would have something slimy to play with together."

August 24

"J'embrasse mon chien sur la bouche."
(I kiss my dog on the mouth)

August 23

"I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend."
Barg, Spaceballs

August 22

"Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun!"
Groucho Marx

August 21

"Man is dog's idea of what God should be."
Holbrook Jackson

August 20

"Trained or not, he'll always be his own dog to a degree."
Carol Lea Benjamin

August 18 & 19

"He is seen to come crouching along to lay his force, his courage, and all his useful talents at the feet of his master."
Oliver Goldsmith

August 17

"A dog should never be taken for granted."
Marc-Christophe

August 16

"First you learn a new language, profanity; and second you learn not to discipline your dogs when you're mad, and that's most of the time when you're training dogs."
Lou Schultz, trainer of Alaskan huskies

August 15

"There is something to be said at how quickly a dog makes friends in comparison to a human."
Anonymous

August 14

"The great pleasure of a dog is that you 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

August 13

"If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise."
Anonymous

August 11 & 12

"The dog is the only living being that has found and recognizes an indubitable, tangible and definite god. He knows to whom above him to give himself. He has not to seek for a superior and infinite power."
Maurice Maeterlinck

August 10

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

August 9

"Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger."
Albert Payson Terhune