„I have a little dog who likes to nap with me.He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck.He is sweeter than soap.He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace,which can’t even bark…“

— Mary Oliver

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„I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.“
— William Shakespeare
„Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today.“
— Gertrude Stein
„The old dog barks backward without getting up;I can remember when he was a pup.“
— Robert Frost
„He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of "dog." "It is you who are dogs," cried he, "when you stand round and watch me at my breakfast."“
— Diogenes of Sinope