Animals are such agreeable friends; they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
- George Elliot
(1819 - 1880)

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
- Mark Twain
(1835 - 1910)

Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
- Alice Walker
(1944 - )

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: Obedience, loyalty and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
- Robert Benchley
(1889 - 1945)