Our Link to Paradise

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

Histories are more full of the examples
of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
– Alexander Pope

The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in
this selfish world, the one that never deserts him,
the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.
– George Graham

If you think you’re a person of some influence,
try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
– Cowboy Wisdom

You think dogs will not be in heaven?
I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
– Robert Louis Stevenson

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers,
is contained in the dog.
– Franz Kafka, Investigations of the Dog

I think it is safe to say that Steve never
met an animal he didn’t like.
– Bonnie McCurry

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