"What can I say about my beloved Charlie that my wife and I haven't said to each other so many times when he was still with us?

Oh, what a friend he was! When we had to leave him at the kennel and travel off somewhere, we would almost always wish we had taken him with us. Our home now has an echo that it never had before....in every corner, in every room we expect to see him. Let me tell you, this kind of grief goes to the very core of our being.

Almost always when we would be driving and Charlie was with us on the back seat, he would let us know how much he loved us. I would suddenly feel his head on my left shoulder for a few seconds, and then he would go over to Adrienne and do the same thing. He never neglected either one of us with his love.

It is way too short of a life that they lead and oh what a profound lesson as to the real meaning of what love is all about!..."come here Charlie" and he would come at any hour. "go here - go there Charlie" and never hesitate to do it. He would dive into the mouth of a cannon and never in any way question my word.

We will carry you in our hearts forever Charlie Boy ....and the first to look for when we go."

-- Steve Bluestone

My neighbor has two dogs. One of them says to the other, "Woof!" The other replies, "Moo!" The dog is perplexed. "Moo? Why did you say, "Moo'?" The other dog says, "I'm trying to learn a foreign language."

- Morey Amsterdam

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

--Lewis Grizzard

The other day I saw two dogs walk over to a parking meter. One of them says to the other, "How do you like that? Pay toilets!"

--Dave Starr

I went to an exclusive kennel club. It was very exclusive. There was a sign out front: "No Dogs Allowed."

--Phil Foster

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 a man.

--Mark Twain

When you leave them in the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until you turn the key eight hours later.

--Erma Bombeck

Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls ...

--Phillis Diller

I've been on so many blind dates I should get a free dog.

--Wendy Liebman

My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.

--Carl Rowan

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

--Aldous Huxley 1894 English Novelist.

Man is a dogs ideal of what God should be.

--Holbrook Jackson 1874 English Journalist.

The more I see of the depressing stature of people, the more I admire my dogs.

--Alphonse de Lamartine 1790-1869 French Poet.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

--Alexander Pope 1688-1744 English Poet.

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

--Honore de Balzac. 1799-1850 French Novelist.

A dog is the only thing on this earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

--Josh Billings

The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse.

--Josh Billings.

If dogs could talk, perhaps we'd find it just as hard to get along with them as we do people.

--Karel Capek 1890-1938 Czech Journalist.

Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel but not in the kitchen.

--George Bernard Shaw 1856 British Dramatist.

The more I see of men the more I like dogs.

--Madame de Stael 1766-1817 French social leader.

Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

--Mark Twain.

When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama.

--Mark Twain.

A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog.

--Edward Noyes Westcott 1846-1898 American Banger & Novelist.

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

--Ogden Nash

Both humans and dogs love to play well in adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience.

--John Winokur, American Writer

I know that dogs are pack animals, but it is difficult to imagine a pack of standard poodles...and if there was such a thing as a pack of standard poodles, where would they rove to? Bloomingdale's?

--Yvonne Clifford, American actress

The great pleasure of a dog is that you make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, he will make a fool of himself too.

--Samuel Butler

Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book; inside of a dog, it is very dark.

--Groucho Marx.

My little dog -- a heartbeat at my feet.

--Edith Wharton.

She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.

--Lloyd Alexander, American writer.

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, "The first to welcome, foremost to defend."

--Lord Byron, an epitaph for his dog Boatswain.

A good dog never dies he always stays he walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near, his head is within our hand in his old way.

--Mary Carolyn Davies

Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.

--Harry S. Truman

God ... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better.

--Rainer Maria Rilke

If a dog's prayers were answered, bones would rain from the sky.

--Old Proverb

A dog is like an eternal Peter Pan, a child who never grows old and who therefore is always available to love and be loved.

--Aaron Katcher, American Educator and Psychiatrist

She was such a beautiful and sweet creature... and so full of tricks.

--Queen Victoria.

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

--Corey Ford, American writer

What kind of life a dog... acquires, I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete: one sees little but legs.

--E.V. Lucas, English writer

Fifth Avenue is too expensive for anyone but dogs.

--Mel Finkelstein, Daily News

My dog can bark like a Congressman, fetch like an aide, beg like a press secretary, and play dead like a receptionist when the phone rings.

--Gerold Solomon, US Congressman

Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.

--Napoleon Bonaparte

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, English humorist

Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dog.

--Ernest Thompson Seton, American writer and naturalist.

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

--Mordecai Siegal, Contemporary Writer

Being patted is what it is all about.

--Roger Caras.

Some dogs live for praise they look at you as if to say "Don't throw balls... just throw bouquets."

--Jhordis Anderson, American Painter

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

Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?

--Emil Zola

They are better than human beings, because they know but do not tell.

--Emily Dickenson

In the late summer afternoon, when the teacups were cleared, and the family went inside... the dogs who are no longer under human command, find delight in the company of each other.

--Joe Dunnea, Irish Writer

Faithful:

With eye upraised his master's look to scan,

The joy, the solace, and

the aid of man:

The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend,

The only creature faithful to the end.

--George Crabbe.

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If dogs could talk, perhaps we'd find it just as hard to get along with them as we do people.

--Karel Capek 1890-1938 Czech Journalist.

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