In this week’s Big Bad List, we’ve put together some of the cutest, cuddliest and goofiest dogs we came across. These delightful and daffy dogs will make your day.
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(This list is in not particular order and is not exhaustive.)
The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there when we think we are alone. Think of what they could tell us. They sit on the laps of presidents. They see acts of love and violence, quarrels and feuds, and the secret play of children. If they could tell us everything they have seen, all of the gaps of our lives would stitch themselves together.
(Carolyn Parkhurst, The Dogs of Babel)
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The greatest 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)
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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)
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Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.
(John Grogan)
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
(W.H. Auden)
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The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common.
(Martin Luther)
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The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.
(Marjorie Pay Hinckley)
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Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend.
(Anonymous)
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I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
(John Steinbeck)
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
(Joan Powers, Pooh’s Little Instruction Book)
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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
(Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey)
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Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.
(Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red)
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I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
(Abraham Lincoln)
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There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
(Linda Grayson)
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You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
(A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh)
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Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
(William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim)
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Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.
(Ally Condie, Matched)
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Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.
(Margaret Lee Runbeck)
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Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
(Marthe Troly-Curtin)
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There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.
(Stephen Chbosky)
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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
(Tom Bodett)
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If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman’s pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.
(George Bernard Shaw)
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The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
(Andy Rooney)
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Ever consider what our dogs 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)
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I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
(Rita Rudner)
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You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.
(Robert Louis Stevenson)
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Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.
(Dean Koontz)
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A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.
(Arthur Conan Doyle)
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All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed.
For after all, he was only human. He wasn’t a dog.
(Charles M. Schulz)
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When the Man waked up he said, ‘What is Wild Dog doing here?’ And the Woman said, ‘His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.’
(Rudyard Kipling)
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Dogs are minor angels, and I don’t mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally, forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to do anything that makes us happy, etcetera. If we attributed some of those qualities to a person we would say they are special.
(Jonathan Carroll)
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Never mind, said Hachiko each day. Here I wait, for my friend who’s late. I will stay, just to walk beside you for one more day.
(Jess C. Scott, Skins, Animal Stories)
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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
(Mark Twain)
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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.
(Charles Lamb)
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A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.
(Markus Zusak, The Book Thief)
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Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
(Marcel Proust)
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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
(Paul Simon)
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
(Elbert Hubbard)
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Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
(Gautama Buddha)
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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.
(Sylvia Plath)
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Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
(Guillaume Apollinaire)
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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
(Will Rogers)
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Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.
(Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing)
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
(Jonathan Safran Foer)
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There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
(Benjamin Franklin)
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Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
(Agatha Christie)
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I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’s
why.
(John Steinbeck)
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Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.
(Dean Koontz, False Memory)
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
(Josh Billings)
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
(Pat Conroy)
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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)
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There’s not a word yet, for old friends who’ve just met.
(Jim Henson)
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
(Woodrow Wilson)
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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)
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
(Quentin Tarantino)
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A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
(Barbara Kingsolver)
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Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go in circles, and we seem unable to break away, wondering what horrible event the future holds for us, the dog opens a window into the delight of the moment.
(Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson)
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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
(Marie Corelli)
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The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with that, kiss you. There are no ulterior motives with a dog, no mind games, no second-guessing, no complicated negotiations or bargains, and no guilt trips or grudges if a request is denied.
(Caroline Knapp)
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