~ Rescue Quotes ~
"In rescuing animals I lost my mind but found my soul"
-Unknown-
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"
-Statue of Liberty-
“In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure.”
- Heart Warrior Chosa -
"The time is always right to do what is right"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
~ Justice & Doing the Right Thing - Quotes ~
Being born of the human race instead of the animal kingdom does not give you more rights.
It gives you more responsibility. - Unknown-
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller -
Hopeless/Helpless/ Voiceless...If not for you and I. - Pam Athey Carter -
"One can measure the greatness and moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals." - Mahatma Gandhi -
A dog is not "almost human" and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such. -John Holmes -
~ For the Love of Dogs - Quotes ~
Dogs vs People
"The more people I meet, the more I love my dog."
("Plus je vois l'homme, plus j'aimie mon chien") - Pascal -
The more I see of man, the more I like dogs. - Mme. de Staël -
To err is human, to forgive canine. - Unknown -
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. - Bern Williams-
The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. -Anonymous -
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. - Sigmund Freud-
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. -Mark Twain-
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-
Dogs as a Role Model and Inspiration
I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love.
For me they are the role model for being alive. - Gilda Radner -
My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am. - Unknown -
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 -
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. -Robert Benchley -
Dogs and Heaven
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's. -Mark Twain -
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. -Will Rogers-
If I have any beliefs about immortality,
it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven,
and very, very few persons. -James Thurber-
Because of my Dog
I am, because my little dog knows I am. - Gertrude Stein -
A Smart/Wise Dog
If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them. -Phil Pastoret -
All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog. - Franz Kafka -
A Dog's Faults
Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really. -Agnes Sligh Turnbull -
Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog. -Franklin P. Jones -
A Dog's Love
"Happiness is a warm puppy." -Charles M. Schulz-
The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be. -Konrad Lorenz -
No Matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich. - Louis Sabin-
The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. - George Graham Vest -
Love
... is the way she will come over to see me, for no reason, just to let me know I'm important to her.
... is the way she looks into my eyes and finds contentment in simply being near me.
... is the way she will run all over the yard, fetch a soggy tennis ball and bring it back to me as if to say "look, it's all have, but it's yours".
... is the way she wakes me up in the morning by pushing her cold wet nose in my ear and snuffing loudly.
... is the way she's sure he can catch the ducks in the lake today...
... is the way she comes over to me when he is sad.
... is the way she wedges himself near me when I am sad and push all others away, to console me with his love.
... is the way she pounces on crickets in the backyard.
... is the way she looks perplexed when they escape.
... is the way she is terrified of the unknown noise or flap of the curtain.
... is the way she loves you, even when you are impatient and have no time this morning for a game of under.
... is the way her coat feels like liquid silk under my fingers.
... is the way she finds wisdom beyond words.
-Unknown-
“Gentlemen of the jury: the best friend a man has in the world many turn against him and become his worst enemy.
His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful.
Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name, may become traitors to their faith.
The money that a man has, he may lose.
It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it the most.
A man's reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action.
The people who are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor when success is with us may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads.
The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him and the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog.
Gentleman of the jury, a man's dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness.
He will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his master's side.
He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer, he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounters with the roughness of the world.
He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince.
When all other friends desert he remains.
When riches take wings and reputation falls to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens.
If fortune drives the master forth an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him to guard against danger, to fight against his enemies and when the last scene of all come, and death takes the master in its
embrace and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by his grave side will the noble dog be found.
His head between his paws, his eyes sad but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even to death." -1869, Senator Vest-
