Dog Day Afternoon

[See "Dog Tales" in the Factoids Archives for some language-related dog facts.]

Dog Drawing by James Thurber

• The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic. — Henry Ward Beecher
• I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. — August Strindberg
• No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. — Fran Lebowitz
• Ever consider what they must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul—chicken, pork, half cow. They just think we're the greatest hunters on earth! — Anne Tyler
• I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. — Rita Rudner
• My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpets or ruin our lives. — Rita Rudner
• My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money. — Joe Weinstein
• The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.— Samuel Butler

• 	Dog Drawing by James Thurber

  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
• You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. — Nora Ephron
• Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. — Ann Landers
• Women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. — Robert A. Heinlein
• There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. — Ben Williams
• Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. —Roger Caras
• When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. — Edward Abbey
• Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. — Mark Twain
• If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. — Mark Twain
• I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. — Abraham Lincoln
• Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane. — Smiley Blanton
• I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. — John Steinbeck
• Happiness is a warm puppy. —Charles M. Schulz
• A dog has lots of friends because he wags his tail and not his tongue. —Anonymous