Dogs are mans best friend. Everybody knows that, but sometimes it's difficult to explain just how much you love your dog...

Luckily for you, we've found 20 of the best quotes about dogs that will have you running to bear hug your pup ASAP!   “Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.” — John Grogan “Handle every stressful situation like a dog. If you can’t eat or play with it, just pee on it and walk away.” “Without my dog my wallet would be full my house would be clean but my heart would be empty.” “In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn’t merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.” — Edward Hoagland “Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love, they depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.” “Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.” — Orhan Pamuk “Nothing in the world is friendlier than a wet dog.” “No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich.” — Louis Sabin “I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.” — Doris Day “Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, and filling an emptiness we didn’t ever know we had.” — Thom Jones “The best part of the day is coming home to a wagging tail.” “Happiness starts with a wet nose and ends with a tail!” “I don’t care what anyone thinks of me. Except dogs, I want dogs to like me.” “The first dog is the dog that gives you so much that the first dog is often the reason for the second dog.” “Do I believe in love at first sight? Absolutely, I fall in love with every dog I see!” “You know what I like about people? Their dogs.” “A dog is one of the few things in life that is as it seems.” — Mark J. Asher “You can always find hope in a dogs eyes.” “Those who teach the most about humanity aren’t always humans.” — Donald L. Hicks “Everyone thinks they have the best dog. And none of them are wrong.” — W.R. Purche