Konrad Lorenz Quotes

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

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

You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you share in our sorrows and rejoice with us in our triumphs, the truest friend we ever have known, a better friend than we deserve. You have thrown in your lot with us, through thick and thin, on battlefield and hearthrug, refusing to leave your master even when death and destruction lie all around. Ah, noble dog, you are the furry mirror in which we see our better selves reflected, man as he could be, unstained by war or ambition, unspoilt by-

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I've got people up here who I'm really tight with, we've made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I've got people in my corner I can trust.

The more I see of men the more I like dogs.

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift.

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.

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

Only my dogs will not betray me.

We have to choose faith even if we don't feel it. Or hold on to a friend who has faith.

Few there are that will endure a true friend.

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We've never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.

But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!

Yeah, dog was this man's best friend, for sure.

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.

He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one.

I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the bodies of the people they were bonded to, sitting in cemeteries for days or sometimes weeks. You find these stories endlessly.

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

I have a few friends that I think would go to bat for me no matter what. Flea is definitely one of them. Guy Oseary is one of them.

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

I wish all men were like dogs.