Wisdom

The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.
Stanley Coren

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.
Robert Wagner

The dog is a reflection of your energy, of your behavior. You have to ask, 'What am I doing?' That's the right question to ask.
Cesar Millan

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
Chanakya

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.
Kinky Friedman

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Andy Rooney

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

I have never met a dog I couldn't help; however, I have met humans who weren't willing to change.
Cesar Millan

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Woodrow Wilson

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Lewis Grizzard

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

If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.
Bruce Robinson

Every dog deserves a home, not every home deserves a dog.
Author Unknown

The dog can only become what's in your bubble. The dog is imitating the energy that is in your bubble. You are the source, the feast of energy. If you feel anxious, the dog becomes anxious with you. If you become nervous, the dog wakes up nervous with you.
Cesar Millan

I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.
Doris Day

Be the person your dog thinks you are.
Author Unknown

My goal in life is to be as good of a person as my dog already thinks I am.
Author Unknown

Hardly any animal can look as deeply disappointed as a dog to whom one says no.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Aggression is not a breed thing. It's a state of mind, and it comes from how the human is with the dog. There are four levels of energy, regardless of the breed: low, medium, high, very high. The idea is to get a dog in your same level or lower than you.
Cesar Millan

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Ann Landers

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
Rita Rudner

Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.
Agnes Sligh Turnbull

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.
John Grogan

One of the happiest sights in the world comes when a lost dog is reunited with a master he loves. You just haven’t seen joy till you have seen that.
Eldon Roark

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.
James Thurber

The pack is very important for a dog. Once you give him the right pack and the right energy, you look at him.
Cesar Millan

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
Jonathan Safran Foer

My fashion philosophy is, if you're not covered in dog hair, your life is empty.
Elayne Boosler

Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs—loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love—can be elusive to humans.
John Grogan

I always like a dog so long as he isn’t spelled backward.
G. K. Chesterton

Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
Jim Hightower

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.
Max DePree

I believe a calm dog is a happy, obedient dog that won't get into trouble.
Cesar Millan

Every once in a while a dog enters your life and changes everything.
Author Unknown