The Dog Fanatic: Tail-wagging Quotes on Man's Best Friend

by PatriciaSherwood (Author)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $9.92

  'The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him...is his dog.' Samuel Coleridge. To his dog, every man is Napoleon, hence the popularity of dogs' - Aldous Huxley 'A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverence, and to turn round three times before lying down' - Robert Benchley It's been argued that we live in a dog's world, and The Dog Fanatic brings to life the joys of being in that world, with hundreds of slobbery, trick-performing, tailwagging quotes that remind us just why we call dogs 'man's best friend'. With contributions from a star cast, ranging from Winston Churchill, Samuel Pepys, Alec Guinness and DH Lawrence, to Jerome K Jerome, Florence Nightingale, PG Wodehouse and Rudyard Kipling, this is surely a book that will delight all dog lovers. Patricia M Sherwood, a longtime dog fancier, breeder and trainer, is also the editor of The Greatest Dog Stories Ever Told and An Honest Angler.

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $3.42

  A comprehensive collection of the wisest, funniest, most heartwarming comments about our canine friends. An astonishing array of interesting people have written about their favorite animal - and this rich treasury will make the perfect gift for any admirer of dogs. Here are some of the most memorable words ever written on the various breeds, the dog fancy, training dogs, dogs in their own words, sporting dogs, and about the terrible loss we all feel when a dog has died. This collection includes such notable dog lovers as: Aeschylus Homer Carl Sandburg Edward Albee Franz Kafka Jean-Paul Sartre Winston Churchill Don Marquis Jane Smiley T. S. Eliot Peter Mayle August Strindberg M. F. K. Fisher Willie Morris Anne Tyler Robert Frost Eugene O'Neill Evelyn Waugh Evander Holyfield Anna Quindlen Woodrow Wilson and scores of others.