“The problem with loving dogs is that you outlive all but the last one.”
– Edward Grinnan, author of Always By My Side: Life Lessons From Millie and All the Dogs I’ve Loved
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“Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you’re never friendless ever, if you have a dog.”
– Douglas Malloch, poet
“Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.”
—Max Eastman, writer
– Sara Paretsky, author
“The charming relations I have had with a long succession of dogs results from their happy spontaneity. Usually they are quick to discover that I can not see or hear. Considerately they rise as I come near, so that I may not stumble. It is not training but love which impels them to break the silence about me with the thud of a tail rippling against my chair, or gambols round the study, or news conveyed by expressive ear, nose, and paw. Often I yearn to give them speech, their motions are so eloquent with things they can not say. Truly, as companions, friends, equals in opportunities of self-expression, they unfold to me the dignity of creation, and in their joy smiles the blessing of St. Francis.”
– Helen Keller in A Tribute to a Dog
Helen Keller with Phiz (a Boston Terrier). Photo courtesy of Perkins School for the Blind
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“Acquiring a dog may be the only time a person gets to choose a relative.”
– Mordecai Siegal, author
“Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.”
– John Grogan, author of Marley & Me
“One of the most enduring friendships in history – dogs and their people, people and their dogs.”
– Terry Kay, author
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