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My Favorite Quotes

(As Written by the Author’s Dog)

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of your dogs, they are all 30 feet tall fire hydrants.

—Wee Willy Wilde; Larry Wilde’s heavy-drinking Lab

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. Now, watch as I make my father say no to that last meatball and give it to me.

—Slacker, Dr. Napoleon Hill’s overachieving coon hound

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. And I love, love, love the Iams Savory Sauce on my food. Now that’s genius.

—Tone Deaf, Mozart’s collie, great-great-great-uncle of Tone Loc

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want. I’ve given plenty of people more than enough attitude to get me everything I want, even an iPhone with a two-year contract.

—Stingy, Zig Ziglar’s tight-pawed Yorkie

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. That’s how one is able to knock over the garbage pail, eat its contents, and leave the remnants all over the house.

—Hercules, Samuel Johnson’s diminutive Chihuahua

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right! Evidence that proves canines are never wrong.

—Pinto, Henry Ford’s wise but explosive bull terrier

You see things; and you say “Why?” But I dream of things that never were; and I say “Why not?” and I wonder “Why not dig under the fence and run free?”

—George Bernard Paw, Mr. Shaw’s big-mitted best friend

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up. Or licking his face.

—Smooches, Jesse Jackson’s pit bull

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. A lesson that you should always be careful when an owner commands you to sit.

—A-Train, Will Rogers’s single-minded boxer