Frances Power Cobbe Quotes

Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.

I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the bodies of the people they were bonded to, sitting in cemeteries for days or sometimes weeks. You find these stories endlessly.

Falling in love is like owning a dog.

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift.

He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us

Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.

Who loves me will love my dog also.

A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.

I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

I love the dog. She comes for drives with me in the back of my car. Darby is not aggressive or judgmental. She just is. That's what I love about her. She sits there and watches 'The Fugitive' with me.

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive.

I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little. And you can trust them.

You took me to adventure and to love. We two have shared great joy and great sorrow. And now I stand at the gate of the paddock watching you run in an ecstasy of freedom, knowing you will return to stand quietly, loyally, beside me.

When you leave them in the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until you turn the key eight hours later.

Don’t you see?” I said. “He could change every detail, but he couldn’t change her.” “But why?” His obtuseness frustrated me. “Because he was in love with her!” I said. “Because, to him, she was the only thing that was real.

Dogs are our link to paradise.

People may surprise you with unexpected kindness. Dogs have a depth of loyalty that often we seem unworthy of. But the love of a cat is a blessing, a privilege in this world.

There is nothing truer in this world than the love of a good dog.

No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.