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I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites.

I have a dog of Blenheim birth, With fine long ears and full of mirth; And sometimes, running o'er the plain, He tumbles on his nose: But quickly jumping up again, Like lightning on he goes!

The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart--see, they bark at me.

Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? . . . And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority--a dog's obeyed in office.

We are two travellers, Roger and I. Roger's my dog--come here, you scamp! Jump for the gentleman--mind your eye! Over the table,--look out for the lamp! The rogue is growing a little old; Five years we've tramped through wind and weather, And slept out-doors when nights were cold, And ate and drank and starved together.

Gentlemen of the Jury: The one, absolute, unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. - George Graham Vest, Eulogy on the Dog,

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

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.

Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies.

Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.

The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.

If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them.

In dog years, I'm dead.