Just Dogs ~

"Animals are such agreeable friends ~
they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."
~ George Eliot

"The dog was created especially for children.
He is the god of frolic."
~ Henry Ward Beecher


"The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable, hope, jokes and dogs,but the greatest of these was dogs."
~ Robyn Davidson

"I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better."
~ George Bird Evans

"To be without a dog is worse than being without a song."
~ Henry Beetle Hough
(Caption on a photograph of the British Beatles lounging with two dogs ~ one a very large long-haired breed; the other a small, perky-eared creature.)

"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole."
~ Thomas McGuane

"Dogs' eyes speak a special language that comes directly from their souls."~Anonymous
(For larger image, click on photo)

"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends."  ~ Alexander Pope

Source:  1000 DOGS, Raymond Merritt & Miles Barth, Taschen, 2002.