Valentine Week Special: Some Quotes about Dogs (animals)

Our 2009 Wall Calendar was a really cute one with pictures of adorable Labradors on every page. Every month had a quote on dogs (or animals in general). I just want to share those 12 quotes with you today. I really believe these quotes are very true and thought-provoking. Dwelling upon these quotes has made my love for dogs even more deeper and I want to thank all the dogs in the world for who they are and the incredible things they do for mankind. Hats off to all the small and the big breeds, the sporting and the non-sporting breeds, the working and the herding breeds. You dogs just rock!!

Here are the quotes for you to ponder:

1. Animals are such agreeable friends- they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
- George Eliot

2. The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
- Gandhi

3. A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
- Josh Billings

4. I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself. But I think I have a right to resent, to object to, libelous statements about my dog.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

5. One reason a dog is such a comfort when you're downcast is that he doesn't ask to know why.
- Anonymous

6. Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.
-Henry Beston

7. In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly dog.
- Edward Hoagland

8. The greatest 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

9. Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
- Milan Kundera

10. The dog has got more fun out of man than man has got out of the dog, for man is the more laughable of the two animals.
- James Thurber

11. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
- Agnes Relier

12.The greatest dog in the world....is a companion who does all but speak. He will be gay or serious; he will console you in your lowest moods.
- Ludwig Bemelman

Happy Reading!!