In the summer of 1999 I took a 2-week trip to Europe. I travelled
through 4 countries meeting many people and visitng many sites.
Most people I met did not speak much of  my language, and I certainly
didn't speak any of their language.  Throughout the whole trip I realized
one important aspect about the world and its inhabitants:

No matter where you go,
two things are always the same:
Dogs and Laughter
 

In tribute to this new-found knowledge, I present these quotes.

"Ever consider what they must think of us? I mean, here we come back
from a grocery store with the most amazing haul- chicken, pork, half a
cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!"
-- Anne Tyler

"My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can.
That's almost $7.00 in dog money."
-- Joe Weinstein

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

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

"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

"Heaven goes by favour.
If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."
-- Mark Twain

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

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die
I want to go where they went."
-- 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

"Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about little puppies."
-- Gene Hill

"In dog years I'm dead"
-- Unknown

"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

"I wonder what goes through his mind when he sees us peeing in his water bowl."
-- Penny Ward Moser

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."
-- Aldous Huxley

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."
-- Robert Benchley

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

"Did you hear about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac who stays
up all night wondering if there really is a Dog?"
-- Unknown

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

"No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless
absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation."
-- Fran Lebowitz

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

"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you
are wonderful." -- Ann Landers

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

"Cat's Motto: No matter what you've done wrong,
always try to make it look like the dog did it."
-- Unknown

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

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

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself."
-- Josh Billings

"Man is a dog's idea of what God should be."
-- Holbrook Jackson

"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