"A dog at play has the mind of a wise martial arts master, a mind capable of perfect focus."
      - Marc-Christophe

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
      - Mark Twain

"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

"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may 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

"...he will always be our friend for always and always and always."
      - Rudyard Kipling

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

"The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog"
      - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny. He immediately loses his head and starts hamming up to it."
      - P.G. Wodehouse

"The Almighty, who gave the dog to be the companion of our pleasures and toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit..."
      - Sir Walter Scott

"Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate and amiable animals of the whole brute creation."
      - Edmund Burke

"In the concurring opinion of the wise, a dog, thankful for his food, is more worthy than a human being who is devoid of gratitude..."
      - Sadi

"Here, gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity."
      - Napoleon Bonaparte