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Protection of the pages

I think that a administrator must protect this page, I have seen that this page is vandalized, but want that review this page, and decide in protect. Only a request. --Danilo Andres Ramirez Problems? 00:06, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for undoing the vandalism. Protection is only needed when there is persistent vandalism or edit warring, which does not appear to be the case here. ~ Ningauble 16:35, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

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• A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
  • Robert Benchley

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

• A dog's best friend is his illiteracy.
  • Ogden Nash

• A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied.
  • Irish Proverb

• A door is that which a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
  • Ogden Nash

• A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
  • Agnes Repplier

• Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
  • George Eliot

• Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home his face might burn up.
  • Jack Handy

• Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.
  • Sue Murphy

• Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
  • Roger Caras

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

• Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
  • Ann Landers

• Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
  • Jim Hightower

• Happiness is a warm puppy.
  • Charles M. Schulz

• Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
  • Mark Twain

• I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they chose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas.
  • Jack Handy

• I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
  • August Strindberg

• I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
  • Rita Rudner

• If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
  • Alfred North Whitehead

• If dogs could talk, perhaps we'd find it just as hard to get along with them as we do people.
  • Karel Caprek

• If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friend's motions and inclinations, he possesses this in an eminent degree; he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.
  • Alexander Pope

• If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
  • Fran Lebowitz

• If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for — to bite when he feels like it!
  • Nikita Khrushchev

• If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
  • Mark Twain

• In the future, airplanes will be flown by a dog and a pilot. And the dog's job will be to make sure that if the pilot tries to touch any of the buttons, the dog bites him.
  • Scott Adams (of Dilbert, not Adventure International)

• Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
  • Josh Billings

• My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money.
  • Joe Weinstein

• Never pet a burning dog.
  • Philip Gordon Wylie

• Oh, no, it's not dogs I don't like — it's corgis. They get the blame for all the farts.
  • Diana, Princess of Wales

• Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.
  • Joe Gores

• Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
  • Groucho Marx

• The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
  • Henry Ward Beecher

• The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.
  • Samuel Butler

• The more I see of the representatives of the people the more I admire my dogs.
  • Alphonse de Lamartine

• The reason dogs have so many friends is because they wag their tails instead of their tongues.
  • Unknown

• We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.
  • Maurice Maeterlinck

• What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, what counts is the size of the fight in the dog.
  • Mark Twain

• When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.
  • John Bogart

• When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.
  • Henry David Thoreau

• Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
  • Snoopy (Charles M. Schulz)

• I created dog, to mend the error I made in creating man.
  • God

• I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
  • John Steinbeck

• My little old dog: A heart-beat At my feet.
  • Edith Wharton

• "If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket then giving Fido only two of them."
  • Phil Pastoret

• I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.
  • Steve Right

• A dog may chase a cat, but will the cat chase the dog?
  • O. Ebdy