Monday, January 14, 2008
December 29 and 30
"A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man."
Frances Thompson
Frances Thompson
December 28
"Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative."
Mordecai Siegal
Mordecai Siegal
December 27
"Dog is God spelled backwards. That means something, I'm just not sure what exactly. But human is namuh spelled backwards."
Marc-Christophe
Marc-Christophe
December 26
"He wags his tail, and the room looks as if a devastating army had marched through it."
Jerome K Jerome
Jerome K Jerome
December 25
"Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves."
Clarence Day
Clarence Day
December 24
"My dog is usually pleased with what I do, because she is not infected with the concept of what I 'should' be doing."
Lonzo Idolswine
Lonzo Idolswine
December 22 and 23
"An article from The New York Times business sections asserts that the minimum cost of owning a dog is $11,580, assuming the dog lives ten years."
December 21
"Among God's creations, two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes in order not to be separated from the man."
Andres Segovia
Andres Segovia
December 19
"Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed a cat."
Oxford Union Socity, London
Oxford Union Socity, London
December 18
"I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness."
Thomas McGuane
Thomas McGuane
December 17
"He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood."
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott
December 15 and 16
"I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the inhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better."
George Bird Evans
George Bird Evans
December 14
"Humankind is drawn to dogs because they are so like ourselves--bumbling, affectionate, confused, easily disappointed, eager to be amused, grateful for kindness and the least attention."
Pam Brown
Pam Brown
December 13
"There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
December 11
"It is a strange thing, love. Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man."
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
December 10
"Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in your car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear."
Dave Barry
Dave Barry
December 8 and 9
"I miss the wagging little tail;
I miss the plaintive, pleading wail;
I miss the wistful loving glance;
I miss the circling welcome dance."
Henry Willet
I miss the plaintive, pleading wail;
I miss the wistful loving glance;
I miss the circling welcome dance."
Henry Willet
December 6
"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
Milan Kundera
December 4
"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent."
Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera
December 3
"If kisses were ranked on a scale of sloppiness, then dog kisses would surely be ranked Number One."
December 1 and 2
"A dog is not 'almost human,' and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such."
John Holmes
John Holmes
Thursday, January 3, 2008
November 30
"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience." Woodrow Wilson
November 29
"You may have a dog taht won't sit up, roll over, or even cook you breakfast, not becasue she's too stupid to learn how, but because she's too smart to bother." Rick Horowitz
November 28
"Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large when both are before him." Samuel Johnson
November 24 and 25
"I never married because....I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night." Marie Corelli
November 23
"...the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit." Sir Walter Scott
November 22
"I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself...But I think I have a right to resent, to object to libelous statements about my dog." Franklin D. Roosevelt
November 21
"Don't make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans, or they'll treat you like dogs."
Martha Scott
Martha Scott
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