Dog is man's best friend, which says more for dog than man.
From Lonely in a Crowd, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The brown dog at the corner house waited out the whole rain under the porch rail today, nose to the door, while the man inside watched something flicker blue on a screen. Four hours. I counted two by the shadow on the fence and guessed at the rest. For years I thought that sort of waiting was simple stupidity, a creature too dim to know it had been forgotten, and I said so to Switch more than once. Dog is man's best friend, which says more for dog than man. When the door finally opened the dog did not sulk or settle accounts; he went in wet and glad, and I sat there trying to decide whether I had just watched devotion or a failure of memory.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
Have it on something
More like it
- The world is full of love and lonely people.
- You can rob a person's dignity, but you can't spend it on yourself.
- Dogs possess a skill lacking in their masters, the ability to overlook human shortcomings.
- Animals know when to sniff and when to bristle.
- Waiting for someone else to change gives you a reason not to.
- Is there a star the heavens can do without?