Fun Monday # 7

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Pensieve is hosting this week's Fun Monday. Our assignment:

• please share words that inspire and motivate you--brief or bloviatory, silly or serious, from great world leaders to last night's Comedy Central...from a Hallmark greeting card to your favorite book. Choose one, choose many; let the quotes stand on their own or tell where you first read or heard them and how they affected you. There's a lot of leeway with how this topic can be handled.

I love quotes. I am a quotaphile. I so love good writing. To capture something powerfully universal in a few finely crafted words is to get a glimpse of Heaven.

Without further ado!

[First the dog quotes. This is a dog blog.]

My own:

• In the eyes of a dog I see God.

I wrote a story about this. I will post it here someday.

I was fortunate - hugely so - to have been able to meet Roger Caras, and to get to know his lovely family a little. He has two of my favorite quotes

• Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

and

• If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

And Abraham Lincoln gave us:

• I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

And then there is Mark Twain. I adore Mark Twain.

• It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

• Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

• Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

• Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

• Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Don't you just love Mark Twain? I do. I just love him.


go visit the rest of the Fun Monday participants Pensieve 's blog for some more great quotes!