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Health21 Cute Dog Quotes
Quotes about dogs, not by dogs, you understand.
"Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window." - Steve Bluestone
"Life is a series of dogs." - George Carlin
"From the dog's point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog." - Mabel Louise Robinson
"I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs." - Barbara Woodhouse
"The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs." - Charles de Gaulle
"Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, and filling an emptiness we didn’t ever know we had." - Thom Jones
"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does." - Christopher Morley
"If you can look at a dog and not feel vicarious excitement and affection, you must be a cat." - Author Unknown
"Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it watching for us to come home each day." - John Grogan
"My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet." - Edith Wharton
"Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job." - Franklin P Jones
"If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them." - Phil Pastoret
"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." - Roger Caras
"The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog." - Ambrose Bierce
"Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog." - Franklin P Jones
"A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal." - Robert Brault
"Happiness is a warm puppy." - Charles M Schulz
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of." - Ogden Nash
"The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue." - Author Unknown
"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance and to turn around three times before lying down." - Robert Benchley
"To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring—it was peace." - Milan Kundera
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