Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created…

A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.

— Saadi

Josef Stalin once said that 'Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.' Let us correct this: Ingratitude is a horrible disease belongs to the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convince their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul, without feelings.…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Even through all of this, sometimes I wanted to lift up her chin and say, "Don't you see that is your dog?" Don't you…

— Alison Espach

In a dog social cue from a master can override where he saw the being placed. That won’t happen unless we have bred a…

— Temple Grandin

After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents…

— George Foreman

The implication of AKC registration is that a dog who has it is better than a dog who hasn't.

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

I think the unconditional love you get from an animal, especially a dog, is better than anything else.

— Miranda Lambert

“Do something nice for someone and tell no one about it, not even the dog. It is better to know we are kinder than…

— Dale R. Duvall

“For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.”

— Anonymous

“But he who is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion. Ecclesiastes 9:4”

— ESV Bible

Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with the ancients, or eventhe Elizabethan men. But…

— Henry David Thoreau

The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.

— Josh Billings

“A living dog's better than a dead lion.”

— Elizabeth Bowen