Edgewater Greyts
dog quotes and one-liners
"Adopt a Greyhound - they're going fast."
~ Anonymous/Unknown
"All dogs are pets, but greyhounds are family."
~ Anonymous/Unknown
"Angels are just greyhounds with wings."
~ Anonymous/Unknown
"If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise."
~ Anonymous/Unknown
"My goal in life is to become the kind of person my dogs think I am."
~ Anonymous/Unknown
"Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in
museums...others we take for walks."
~ Anonymous/Unknown
"The only bad thing about a Greyhound is that it doesn't live as long
as his owner."
~ Anonymous/Unknown
"The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue."
~ Anonymous/Unknown
"A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful life."
~ Bob Barker
(1923 - )
"Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued in the next yard."
~ Dave Barry
(1947 -)
"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."
~ Robert Benchley
(1889 - 1945)
"Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship"
~ Ambrose Bierce
(1842 - 1914)
"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself."
~ John Billings, American Humorist
"And sometimes when you'd get up in the middle of the night you'd hear the reassuring thump, thump, of her tail on the floor, letting you know that she was there and thinking of you."
~ William Cole
"Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails."
~ Max Eastman, American Editor and Writer
"We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made."
~ M. Facklam
"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate."
~ Sigmund Freud
"Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it."
~ Alan Holbrook
"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence, the constant
popularity of dogs."
~ Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
"Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog."
~ Franklin P. Jones
"All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog."
~ Franz Kafka
"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
~ Ann Landers
"No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation."
~ Fran Lebowitz
"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."
~ Abraham Lincoln
"Be comforted, little dog, thou too in the Resurrection, shall have a little golden tail."
~ Martin Luther
"The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made his greatest gifts the commonest."
~ Martin Luther
"Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
~ Groucho Marx
"Your dog is your only philosopher."
~ Plato
"...Grieve not, nor speak of me with tears, but laugh and talk of me as if I were beside you...
I loved you so - ‘twas Heaven here with you."
~ Isla Pachal Richardson
"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."
~ Will Rogers
"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."
~ Andrew A. Rooney
"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult."
~ Rita Rudner
"I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?"
~ Sir Walter Scott, Scottish Writer
"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons."
~ James Thurber
(1894 - 1961)
"Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."
~ Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
(1835 - 1910)
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
~ Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
(1835 - 1910)
"Ever consider what they must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul -- chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!"
~ Anne Tyler
"My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. That's almost $21.00 in dog money."
~ Joe Weinstein
"It is natural that we should like to have dogs about us; their enthusiasm for play, their excitement over things in general, their appreciation of creature comforts, are all part of their lovableness; the unnecessary discomfort and dullness, the fear and the pain which too often fall to their lot are a travesty of what life could be for them. The joy of giving unselfish affection is one which dogs share with the best of men and women."
~ "Lesser Lives" by Elinor White (published 1937)
"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face."
~ Ben Williams
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