Canine Companionship Quotes

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.

We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.

Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay there with them. Dogs love us unconditionally, not for our bodies or bank accounts.

The more I know people, the more I love my dog.

A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.

If you ever had a pet, with me it was a dog, with that sort of unconditional love that only dogs can give, people can't do that; that sort of thing where it's very powerful, it's kind of your first love and your first real relationship, and usually your first experience with death.

A dog wakens your heart to joy and companionship.

I grew up in a house with dogs. We always had dogs. We always had a bunch of dogs, actually.

given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at least in the best instances) in the love between man and dog...It is a completely selfless love.

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

A house is not a home until it has a dog.

. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.

A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.

First and foremost I am a commercial writer, and I hope to entertain people. But having said that, I'm in love with the relationship between humans and dogs, and the more I learned about what our military working dogs are doing, I wanted to at least share with people what an important role these animals have in all our lives.

Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.

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

Dogs are easier to love than people; they're certainly more dependable. Once they love you, that's it. A true friend in life is a dog.

Just thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame.

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.

I love dogs, but they are a big responsibility, and with four children, having one would be too much.

The more I see of men the more I like dogs.

I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.

I couldn't live without my faithful companion, Megs the dog.

I think the amount of love and trust on Capitol Hill is often in short supply, and having more dogs here would probably make this place work better and maybe in a more bipartisan manner.