"Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog." ~ Franklin P. Jones
"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." ~ Roger Caras
"The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs." ~ Charles De Gaulle
"It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog." ~ Charles Darwin
"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does." ~ Christopher Morley
"Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, and filling an emptiness we didn’t ever know we had." ~ Thom Jones
"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment to animals." ~ Immanuel Kant
"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 a dog." ~ Edward Hoagland
"The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother—and they'll settle for a puppy every time." ~ Winston Pendleton
"Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished." ~ Dean Koontz
"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience." ~ Woodrow Wilson