Inspired by Dogs

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

"My goal in life is to be as good of a person as my dog already thinks I am. " --Anonymous

"The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable possession of mankind." --Thedorus Gaza

"One of the animals which a generous and sociable man would soonest become is a dog. A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character; he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends, and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow." --Leigh Hunt

"The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog� He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world� When all other friends desert, he remains." --George G. Vest

"'Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home; 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come." --Lord Byron

"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

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

"The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end." --George Crabbe

"No insult would wound me deeper than a look of distrust from one of my dogs." --James Gardner

"The greater love is a mother's; then comes a dog's; then a sweetheart's" --Polish Proverb

"Every dog is a lion at home" --Giovanni Torriano