Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend.  ~Corey Ford

With the exception of women, there is nothing on earth so agreeable or necessary to the comfort of man as the dog.  ~Edward Jesse, Anecdote of Dogs

The dog is a yes-animal, very popular with people who can't afford to keep a yes-man.  ~Robertson Davies

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.  ~Max Eastman, Enjoyment of Laughter

If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.  ~Andy Rooney

A dog is not "almost human" and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.  ~John Holmes

The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.  ~Mme. de Staël

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

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.  ~Aldous Huxley

They never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.  ~Jerome K. Jerome

Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in?  I think that is how dogs spend their lives.  ~Sue Murphy

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.  ~Roger Caras

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's.  ~Mark Twain, letter to W.D. Howells, 2 April 1899

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.  ~Ambrose Bierce 

A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.  ~O.A. Battista

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi human.  The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.  ~Edward Hoagland