"You become responsible forever for what you have tamed."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Sent in by Dog Hause visitor Jennifer Harper.)

"Method is more important than strength . . . By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed to have a passerby kill the snake for the beads."
-- Siddha Nagarjuna, (c. 100 - 200AD) Indian-Tibetan religious leader

"We all have our 'good old days' tucked away inside our hearts, and we return to them in daydreams like cats to favorite armchairs."
-- Brian Carter, (1887 - 1915) English poet

"A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original."
-- Louis Armstrong, (1900 - 1971) US musician, bandleader When asked whether he objected to people copying his style; attributed.

"The biggest dog has been a pup."
-- Joaquin Miller, US poet

"There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly. The second is from the Psalms; grin like a dog and run about through the city."
-- Jan Morris, English writer, journalist

"We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing."
-- George Carlin

"The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man."
-- Robertson Davies, Canadian author

"The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother.
-- Evan Esar

"Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last."
-- Maureen Dowd, US journalist

"We can not do great things-- only small things with great love."
-- Mother Theresa

"If you are losing a tug of war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope."
-- Max Gunther, (1864 - 1943) English novelist, short-story writer

"Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam."
-- Spiro T. Agnew

"The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could get along very well without us, although it is perhaps significant that of the two the cockroach would miss us more."
-- Joseph Wood Krutch, (1893 - 1970) US naturalist, conservationist, writer

"Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way."
-- John Muir
Source: Dog Hause Visitor Heather Rose

"No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich."
-- Louis Sabin

"Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of ther universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made."
-- Roger Caras

"You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets."
-- Nora Ephron

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
-- Robert A. Heinlein

"Of all the things I miss from veterinary practice, puppy breath is one of the most fond memories!"
-- Dr. Tom Cat

"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face."
-- Ben Williams

"When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem."
-- Edward Abbey

"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does."
-- Christopher Morley

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."
-- Andrew A. Rooney

"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion."
-- Unknown

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
-- Mark Twain

"Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane."
-- Smiley Blanton

"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."
-- John Steinbeck

"I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds."
-- Paul Watson, Greenpeace founder

"Just when you think you've won the rat race along come faster rats."
-- Unknown

"A bird in the hand does it on your wrist."
-- Graffiti at Bury St. Edmunds

"Hummingbirds have forgotten the words."
-- Graffiti at Adelaide, SA

"Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest."
-- Bion

"When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news."
-- Charles Anderson Dana, 'What is News?', The New York Sun 1882

"People who hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life."
-- Faith Resnick

"There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats."
-- Anonymous

"There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast."
-- Unknown

"The cat has too much spirit to have no heart."
-- Ernest Menaul

"One cat just leads to another."
-- Ernest Hemingway

"Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia."
-- Joseph Wood Krutch

"Managing senior programmers is like herding cats."
-- Dave Platt

"Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear."
-- Dave Barry

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

"I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"No Matter how little money and how few possessions, you own, having a dog makes you rich."
-- Louis Sabin

"I identify most strongly with the turtle: I patiently plod along till I reach my destination--and occasionally I stick out my neck."
-- Paulette Peltan

"My dog is half pit bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!"
-- Craig Shoemaker

"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends."
-- Alexander Pope

"I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons."
-- Will Rogers

"The little furry buggers are just deep, deep wells you throw all your emotions into."
-- Bruce Schimmel

"The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer."
-- Paula Poundstone

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

"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."
-- Mark Twain

"Sacred cows make the best hamburgers."
-- Mark Twain

"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds."
-- Aesop

"When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"Stupidity is the devil. Look in the eye of a chicken and you'll know. It's the most horrifying, cannibalistic, and nightmarish creature in this world."
-- Werner Herzog

When you see a snake you just kill it; don't appoint a committee on snakes.
-- Chris Noble

"If you don't mind throwing tennis balls for eternity, I do have an opening in doggie heaven."
-- Frank and Ernest comic strip, an angel at St. Peter's gate, to a man seeking admittance

"Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.."
-- Henry Wheeler Shaw

"J'embrasse mon chien sur la bouche!" (I kiss my dog on the mouth.)
-- Unknown

"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants."
-- A. Whitney Brown

"I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers."
-- Unknown

"Every dog must have his day."
-- Jonathan Swift