Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Dogs

• The dog is the god of frolic.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dog, War, Animal

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dog, Children, Poodles

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dog, Horse, Animal

• When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Dog, Fall

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.63

• The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dog, Eye, Angel

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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