Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift.

Who loves me will love my dog also.

The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong.

I would like to believe every man is a one-woman man.

It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true - to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

The only honest reaction and true loyalty that we get is from our animals.

I've never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I'd marry her.

Always' was a promise! How can you just break the promise?" "Sometimes people don't always understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. Isaac shot me a look. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don't you believe in true love?" I didn't answer. I didn't have an answer. But I thought that if true love did exist, that was a pretty good definition of it.

Women are great. When they dig you, there's nothing they won't do. That kind of loyalty is hard to find - unless you've got a good dog.

In all the world you'll never find a love as true as mine.

The time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones, or even for caresses, and walks out of doors. When a dog really loves, it prefers the person who gives it nothing, and perhaps is too ill ever to take it out for exercise, to all the liberal cooks and active dog-boys in the world.

I have never found in a human being loyalty that is comparable to a dog's loyalty.

Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.

There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.

Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same.

Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.

Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.

That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!

Here Shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid, Who fawned like man, but ne'er like man betrayed.

Only my dogs will not betray me.

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No one can legislate love; it cannot be given orders or cajoled into service. Love belongs to itself, deaf to pleading and unmoved by violence. Love is not something you can negotiate. Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.