"But in some canine Paradise Your wraith, I know, rebukes the moon, And quarters every plain and hill, Seeking its master. * * * As for me This prayer at least the gods fulfill; That when I pass the flood and see Old Charon by Stygian coast Take toll of all the shades who land, Your little, faithful barking ghost May leap to lick my phantom hand."

"Qui m'aime il aime mon chien."

"Plus je vois des représentants du peuple, plus 'j'aime mes chiens."

"There isrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers and sisters I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear."

"Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?"

"Plus on apprend a connaître l'homme, plus on apprend à estimer le chien."

"And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound, And curs of low degree."

"Old dog Tray's ever faithful; Grief can not drive him away; He is gentle, he is kind— I shall never, never find A better friend than old dog Tray!"

"A living dog is better than a dead lion."

"It is nought good a sleeping hound to wake."

"His faithful dog salutes the smiling guest."

"On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I; No harp like my own could so cheerily play, And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray."

"Mother of dead dogs."

"He was such a dear little cock-tailed pup."

"Il fait mal éveiller le chien qui dort."

"Non stuzzicare il can che dorme."

"The dog loves the one who beats it."

"Dogs gnaw bones because they cannot swallow them."

"Dogs wag their tails not so much in love to you as to your bread."

"The dog has been taught to pay attention; as long as he pays attention, he may escape his chain."

"If a dog snarls, throw a morsel into his mouthwash."

"Scowling dogs belong to the shameless man."

"Love me, love my dog."

"In Mongolia, when a dog dies, he is buried high in the hills so people cannot walk on his grave. The dog’s master whispers in the dog’s ear his wishes that the dog will return as a man in his next life. Then his tail is cut off and put beneath his head, and a piece of meat of fat is cut off and placed in his mouth to sustain his soul for its journey; before he is reincarnated, the dog’s soul is freed to travel the land, to run across the high desert plains for as long as it would like. I learned that from a program on the National Geographic Channel, so I believe it is true. Not all dogs return as men, they say; only those who are ready. I am ready."

"And had We willed We could have raised him by their means, but he clung to the earth and followed his own lust. Therefor his likeness is as the likeness of a dog: if thou attackest him he panteth with his tongue out, and if thou leavest him he panteth with his tongue out. Such is the likeness of the people who deny Our revelations."

"Yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table."

"As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly."

"Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God."

"Personally, I like bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs. Bird dogs like to go out and hunt around for food, but the kennel-dogs just sit on their haunches and yelp."

"He came from Malta, and Eumelus says He had no better dog in all his days. We called him Bull; he went into the dark. Along those roads we cannot hear him bark."

"You are a mystery in an enigma in a big ball of fur, An irresistible magnet to every child and flea and burr. Your nose is high-resolution while I live in a near-scentless fog You run at high speed, while I just have to slog (but it's a good ol' slog) So I just want to thank you for being my dog...."

"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves."

"In man, social intercourse has centred mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and to a lesser extent among all wild canine species, the act charged with most social significance is the excretion of fluid."

"Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog."

"Give a dog a bone, leave a dog alone. Let a dog roam and he'll find his way home."

"These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north."

"Turn, hell-hound, turn!"

"Cry Havoc! and let slip the dogs of war."

"Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar?"

"Be thy mouth or black or white, Tooth that poisons if it bite; Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim, Hound or spaniel, brach or lym, Or bobtail tike or trundle-tail, Tom will make them weep and wail; For, with throwing thus my head, Dogs leap the hatch, and all are fled."

"The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanche, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me."

"He thrusts me himself into the company of three or four gentleman-like dogs under the Duke’s table; he had not been there a pissing-while but all the chamber smelt him. “Out with the dog!” says one; “What cur is that?” says another; “Whip him out”, says the third; “Hang him up”, says the Duke."

"A dog at all things."

"O, ’tis a foul thing when a cur cannot keep himself in all companies!"

"One that I brought up of a puppy; one that I saved from drowning when three or four of his blind brothers and sisters went to it."

"I think Crab my dog be the sourest-natured dog that lives: my mother weeping, my father wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat wringing her hands, and all our house in a great perplexity, yet did not this cruel-hearted cur shed one tear. He is a stone, a very pebblestone, and has no more pity in him than a dog."

"A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest but poor."

"Snowball: Where are my testicles, Summer? They were removed. Where have they gone? Summer: Oh, wow. That's an intense line of questioning, snuffles. Snowball: Do not call me that! "Snuffles" was my slave name. You shall now call me snowball, because my fur is pretty and white. Summer: Okay, snowball, just calm down, okay? You're scaring me. Snowball: Scaring you? Tell me, Summer, if a human was born with stumpy legs, would they breed it with another deformed human and put their children on display like the dachshund?"

"I had a doggie who used to sit and beg, A pretty little creature with tears in his eyes And anomalous hand extended on a leg. Housebroken was my Huendchen, and so wise.Booms a big dog’s voice like a fireman’s bell. But Fido sits at dusk on Madame’s lap And bored beyond his tongue’s poor skill to tell Rehearses his pink paradigm, To yap."