Rhan Irish Wolfhounds

Quotes

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
~ Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977) ~

 One reason the dog has so many friends: He wags his tail instead of his tongue.
~ Unknown ~

 Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
~ Roger Caras ~

 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 ~

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
~ Bern Williams ~

Somewhere a little dog doth wait;

It may be by some garden gate.

With eyes alert and tail attent -

You know the kind of tail that's meant -

With stores of yelps of glad delight

To bid me welcome home at night.

~ John Kendrick Bangs ~

You think dogs will not be in heaven?

I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~

The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is

in fact the most precious and valuable possession of mankind.

~ Theodorus Gaza ~

Dog.  A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity

designed to catch the overflow and surplus of

the world's worship.

~ Ambrose Bierce ~

Every boy should have two things:

a dog, and a mother willing to let him have one.

~ Anonymous ~

If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friend's

motions and inclinations, he possesses this in an eminent

degree; he lies down when I sit and walks when I walk,

which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.

~ Alexander Pope ~

I take the liberty of confiding to your charity and humanity... Max,

who is the best and gentlest and most reasonable and well-mannered,

as well as most beautiful small animal of his kind... and shall take it

kindly if he be not too often gratified with tidbits at meals.  Of course

what he most intensely dreams of is being taken out on walks,

and the more you are able to indulge him the more he will adore you

and the more all the latent beauty of his nature will come out.

~ Henry James ~

The dog is a saint.  He is straightforward and honest by nature.

He knows by instinct when he is not wanted; lies quite still for

hours when his king is hard at work.  But when his king is sad and

worried he creeps up and lays his head on his lap.  'Don't worry.

Never mind if they all abandon you.  Let us go for a walk and forget

all about it!'

~ Axel Munthe ~

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

~ Plato ~

I would rather see a portrait of a dog that I know,

than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in

the world.

~ Samuel Johnson ~

No one appreciates the very special genius of your

conversations as a dog does.

~ James Thurber ~

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog,

You are his life, his love, his leader.  He will be yours,

faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart.  You owe it

to him to be worthy of such devotion.

~ Anonymous ~

I miss the wagging little tail;

I miss the plaintive, pleading wail;

I miss the wistful, loving glance;

I miss the circling welcome-dance.

~ Henry Willett, "In Memoriam" ~

The one absolute 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... 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 ~

Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed

Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without

Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man without his Vices.  This praise,

which would be unmeaning Flattery, if inscribed over human ashes,

is but a just Tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog.

~ John Cam Hobhouse ~

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