#dogs

I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or to be grateful for crumbs...well, so be it. ↗

— Carol Emshwiller

#human-nature #love #love

I loved Duncan and I loved being his mother but I wasn't sure I was prepared to be only his mother. Before we were even married, when Russell and I had gotten our dog, Humbert, I had walked him early one morning, and as I stood on a line for coffee, someone had offered him a dog treat. "I always ask the mommy first," she said, looking at him expectantly. "Oh, I'm not his mother," I said, "I'm just his...friend," and she looked at me with complete contempt. "You're his mother," she had scolded, "Poor dog. ↗

— Jennifer Belle

#dog-walking #dogs #motherhood #parenthood #pet-owner

So this means you're spoiling me right?" Can't Help it. You're the best hound ever. Oberon's tail thumped a few times and his mouth partially opened, seeming to smile at me. ↗

— Kevin Hearne

#love

I am elected by the people of Bucharest, not the dogs. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#by the people #dogs #elected #i #i am

Men," said Mr. Kyle, "people have been trying to understand dogs ever since the beginning of time. One never knows what they'll do. You can read every day where a dog saved the life of a drowning child, or lay down his life for his master. Some people call this loyalty. I don't. I may be wrong, but I call it love--the deepest kind of love. ↗

— Wilson Rawls

#love #love

To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate. ↗

— Barbara Dana

#approbation #dog #dogs #horrible #love

Let us love dogs; let us only love dogs. Men and cats are unworthy creatures. ↗

— Maria Konstantinova Bashkirtseff

#love

They began work at 5:30 and quit at 7 at night. Children six years old going home to lie on a straw pallet until time to resume work the next morning! I have seen the hair torn out of their heads by the machinery, their scalps torn off, and yet not a single tear was shed, while the poodle dogs were loved and caressed and carried to the seashore. ↗

— Mother Jones

#children #dogs #poodles #home

As dogs return to their vomit, some men return to their wives. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#men #troublesome-marriage #vomit #women #marriage

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all. ↗

— Criss Jami

#fortunate #fortune #happiness #inspirational #negativity