Thought For The Day: Dogs

"This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment;
yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog.
I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations.
Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands.
Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what?
By the grief of one dog."

-Napoleon Bonaparte 
(on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face
 and howling,on a moonlit field after a battle.) 

"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

The great 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, Notebooks, 1912




"You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says,
`My gosh, you're RIGHT!  I NEVER would've thought of that!' "

- Dave Barry

"My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me.
They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself."

~Guy de la Valdene