About Dogs
Scottish Pet Portraits
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There is sorrow enough in the natural way
Fom men and women to fill our day;
But when we are certain of sorrow in store,
Why do we always arrange for more?
Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
The Power of the Dog
Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
Not the least hard thing to bear when they go away from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
John Galsworthy
He cannot be a gentleman who loveth not a dog.
John Northbrooke
Dogs come when they are called.
Cats take a message and get back to you.
Mary Bly
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are
members of a weird religious cult.
Rita Rudner
Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles Schulz
It isn't really true that one human year is equivalent to seven dog years...a much better system was worked out by the French veterinarian Dr. Lebeau, who said the first dog year was equal to about fifteen human years, the second dog year to about nine more, and subsequent years of the dog's age equivalent to about four human years each. By this reckoning, a three-year-old dog would be twenty-eight, and a 15-year-old, about seventy-six.
The mongrel
Angela Patmore
I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all
the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Ah! you should keep dogs - fine animals -
sagacious creatures - dog of my own once -
Pointer - surprising instinct - out shooting one day
-entering enclosure - whistled - dog stopped-
whistled again - Ponto - no go: stock still - called
him - Ponto, Ponto - wouldn't move - dog
transfixed - staring at a board - looked up , saw an
inscription - 'Gamekeeper has orders to shoot all
dogs found in this enclosure' - wouldn't pass it -
wonderful dog - valuable dog that - very.
Mr. Jingles, in The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
Now thou art dead, no eye shall ever see
For shape and service spaniel like to thee.
This shall my love do, give thy sad death one
Tear, that deserves of me a million.
Upon my Spaniel, Tracie
Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
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
Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and
and your dog would go in.
Mark Twain
Why that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg
and she can give her paw - I don't say she will, but she can.
Dorothy Parker
