Wendy's

Thankfully I have the good fortune to also know honest, caring, and considerate people that mitigate the negative influences in my life. I only hope others are as lucky because I remember times when I was not all too clearly.

Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)

"Ambition prompted many to become deceitful; to keep one thing concealed in the breast, and another ready on the tongue; to estimate friendships and enmities, not by their worth, but according to interest; and to carry rather a specious countenance than an honest heart."  -Bellum Catilinae

"Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude."

For those who want the original latin version:

"Ambitio multos mortales falsos fieri subegit, aliud clausum in pectore, aliud in lingua promptum habere, amicitias inimicitiasque non ex re, sed ex commodo aestimare, magisque vultum quam ingenium bonum habere."

"The great 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."

ROBERT BENCHLEY:

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."

GEORGE G. VEST:

"The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; he will like the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. When all other friends desert, he remains."

JAMES THURBER:

"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons."

GEORGE ELIOT:

"We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment."

HENRY WHEELER SHAW:

"Money will by you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail."

UNKNOWN:

"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion."

DEREKE BRUCE:

"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him."

JACKSON BROWN, JR.:

"My dog is such a good friend that when I make a mistake, he'd blame it on the cat if only he could."

LORD BYRON:

"Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, all of the virtues of Man without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Boatswain, my dog."

MILAN KUNDERA:

"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace."

MARK TWAIN:

"Heaven goes by favor. If it went on merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."