(If I know the author, you can find the name below the quote. If no name is specified, the author is unknown.)
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A watchdog is a dog kept to guard your home, usually
by sleeping where a burglar would awaken the household by falling over him.
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Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot
keep it from themselves.
(J.M. Barrrie)
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Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go
with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently
at nothing right in your ear.
(Dave Barry)
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Every boy should have a dog. It teaches him to turn
around three times before lying down.
(Robert Benchley)
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more
than he loves himself.
(Josh Billings)
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Tell me, if you can, of anything that's finer than an
evening in camp with a rare old friend and a dog after one's hear.
(Nash Buckingham, from “Hail and Farewell”)
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a
fool out of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make
a fool out of himself too.
(Samuel Butler)
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It is hard to teach an old dog tricks.
(William Camden, 1605)
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It is naught good a sleepying hound to wake.
(Chaucer)
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The nose of the Bulldog has been slanted backwards so
that he can breathe without letting go.
(Winston Churchill)
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When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still -
So perform both my master's and mistress's will.
(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
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'Twould make a dog laugh.
(J.P. Collier, ca. 1603)
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If you have done much chasing of bobwhite quail, you
will recall days when you could not hit a flushing blanket with all four
corners going in different directions. And when, after repeated misses, one of
the old dogs turned from his lingering point and indignantly stared at you.
Under such circumstances, I have seen a variety of eyes eloquently pleading for
me to get on the stick or go home and sign up for skeet lessons.
(Charley Dickey, from “Florida Sportsman: How to Help
a Bird Dog”, Jan 1982)
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It's a puppy ... it's kind of like Prozac.
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Folk will know how large your soul is, by the way you
treat a dog!
(Charles F. Dornan)
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in
the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
(Dwight D. Eisenhower)
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
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Old age means realizing you will never own all the
dogs you wanted to.
(Joe Gores)
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A dog is not 'almost human' and I know of no greater
insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.
(John Holmes)
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Who kicks a dog kicks his own soul towards hell.
(Will Judy)
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A dog is a liberal ... He wants to please everybody.
(William Kunstler)
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