The Mousy Nerd

“My little old dog: A heart-beat at my feet.”

~ Edith Wharton

“Whoever said you can’t buy happiness forgot about puppies.”

~ Gene Hill

“We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults.  Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.”  

~ George Eliot

“One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you’re feeling blue is that he doesn’t try to find out why.”  

~Author Unknown

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

~ Ogden Nash

“An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing.”

~Robert Brault

“An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.”

~ Martin Buber

“Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!”

~ Theophile Gautier

“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

“From the dog’s point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog.”  

~ Mabel Louise Robinson

“Happiness is a warm puppy.”

~ Charles M. Schulz”

“In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn’t merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.”

~ Edward Hoagland

“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.”    

~ Ben Williams

“The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.”

~ Samuel Butler

“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