We publish some proverbs about the meaning of dogs or animals. That they are a reminder and a guide for us in caring for them.

‘Stare your dog in the eyes and still try to say animals don’t have souls.’ – Victor Hugo

‘I’m suspicious of people who don’t like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn’t like a person.’ – Bill Murray

‘No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich.’ – Louis Sabin

‘A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.’ – Jack London

‘Saving one dog will not change the world, but surely for that one dog, the world will change forever.’ – Karen Davison

‘There is nothing more shameful than deceiving someone who believes in you’ – Melania Gaia Mazzucco

‘I believe the greatest privilege in this world is to use your freedom of speech for those who have no voice.’ – Ricky Gervais

‘Dogs and angels are not very far apart.’ – Charles Bukowski

‘I don’t have to act with dogs’ – Nebojša Glogovac

‘Dogs never bite me. Just humans.’ – Marilyn Monroe

‘A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself’ –  Josh Billings.

‘You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings’. – Jane Goodall

‘Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.’ – Sigmund Freud

‘Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.’ – Orhan Pamuk

‘The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.’ – Mark Twain

‘Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace.’ – Milan Kundera

‘Who feeds a hungry animal feeds his own soul.’ – Charles Chaplin

‘The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.’ – Immanuel Kant

‘Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.’ – Anatole France

‘Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and untroubled joy. So do not trouble it, do not harass them, do not deprive them of their joy, do not go against God’s intent. Man, do not exalt yourself above the animals: they are without sin, while you in your majesty defile the earth by your appearance on it, and you leave the traces of your defilement behind you — alas, this is true of almost every one of us!’ – Fyodor Dostoevsky

‘I love St. Francis of Assisi, because he had a great love for animals. He used to talk with them and play with them—and scold them if they did harm to anybody. I love animals, too. Animals are such simple creations of God’s beauty.’ – Mother Teresa

The first man, Adam, lived in peace with the animals that surrounded him, and that were completely tame and peaceful. So one day, when God restores the world, the resurrected human race will once again live in peace with the tame and benevolent animal world around them. Meanwhile, Orthodox saints are a living sign of that future world – because even animals feel their holiness.

The Prophet Muhammad has said: ‘May Allah curse the one who disfigures an animal.’

‘The main difference between humans and animals is that animals would never allow themselves to be led by the stupidest of the pack.’ – Winston Churchill