If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
~ Mark Twain

Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran. But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
~ Al Franken

The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim. There is a lack of self-consciousness and a fluidity to it that is absent from most human relationships. If someone acted that way to you, you’d feel claustrophobic pretty quickly. It’s a boundary violation.
~ Caroline Knapp

Happiness is a warm puppy.
~ Charles M. Schulz

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.
~ Dean Koontz, False Memory

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
~ Max Eastman

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
~ Thornton Wilder

There’s a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.
~ Dick Dale

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

Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
~ H. G. Bissinger