Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.― Mark Twain

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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.― Jack London

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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.― Mark Twain

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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

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Dogs never bite me. Just humans.― Marilyn Monroe

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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. 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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If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.― Mark Twain

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You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.― Robert Louis Stevenson

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All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.― Charles M. Schulz

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Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.― Christopher Hitchens

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