Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.
Dogs Quotes
The dog is man’s best friend. He has a tail on one end. Up in front he has teeth. And four legs underneath.
The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don’t know… How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what’s its own and what’s alien.
In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man.
Nothing escapes its notice, from a mouse to a moonbeam… a Fox Terrier will outrat a cat, outguard a Doberman, and outplay a 2-year-old child.
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere man.
Outside of a dog, a book is probably man’s best friend; inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.
Oh Diamond! Diamond! Thou little knowest the mischief done! (Said to a pet dog who knocked over a candle and set fire to his papers.)
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun!
