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When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.

Charles Anderson Dana

A dog will look up on you; a cat will look down on you; however, a pig will see you eye to eye and know it has found an equal.

Churchill

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

Arnold Toynbee
English historian & historical philosopher (1889 - 1975)

If you take a dog which is starving and feed him and make him prosperous, that dog will not bite you. This is the primary difference between a dog and a man.

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Andrew A. Rooney

Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.

Bette-Jane Raphael

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Jack London
US adventurer, author, & sailor (1876 - 1916)

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

Samuel Johnson
English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)

Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.

Charles Anderson Dana

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

Arnold Toynbee
English historian & historical philosopher (1889 - 1975)

When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.

John B. Bogart
(1848 - 1921)

When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a person acts criminally we look for the explanation in his brain, blood, and urine. When will psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence of schizophrenic pit bulls?

Nicolas Martin

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.

Fran Lebowitz
US writer and humorist (1950 - )

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

Ogden Nash
US humorist & poet (1902 - 1971)

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

Alfred North Whitehead
English mathematician & philosopher (1861 - 1947)

Kindness and compassion toward all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people. Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bull fighting and rodeos are cut from the same fabric: violence. Only when we have become nonviolent toward all life will we have learned to live well ourselves.

Cesar Chavez, letter

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

Josh Billings
US Humorist (1818 - 1885)

A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied.

Irish Proverb

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 a man.

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

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