"People who keep dogs are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves." ― August Strindberg Topic(s): Pet More From August Strindberg "Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view." "I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves." "Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak." More In Pet "What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm."― Rodney Dangerfield "Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other."― Robert Benchley "I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady."― Juliette Lewis