“Dogs are like that, I guess—they know how to fix you without ever saying a word.”
“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”
“Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.”
“People would rather believe than know.”
“Never break a promise to an animal. They re like babies—they won t understand.”
“You can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
“People speak sometimes about the bestial cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That s the problem.”
“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”
“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”
“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 man.”
“An adult human being is the most fearsome, terrifying, and powerful animal on the planet, and parenting is the act of creating an adult human being.”
“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it s such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.”
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one s soul remains unawakened.”
“I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.”