Bark Quotes

• I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

  Tucker Carlson

  Motivational, New Year, Knowing

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  A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Dog, Religious

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• Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Beauty, Philosophical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Penguin

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• Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Animal, Car

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.118, Crown Archetype

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• Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Funny, Dog, Moving

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  You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Dog

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  The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

  Andy Rooney

  Inspirational, Funny, Dog

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• How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

  Petrarch

  Ignorance, Character, Rocks

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• When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

  David Starr Jordan

  Funny, Dog, Religious

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• As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

  Woody Allen

  Sarcastic, Nature, Sarcasm

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.

  Mark Tobey

  Tree, World, Pavement

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• A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

  Josh Billings

  Love, Friendship, Dog

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• His bark is worse than his bite.

  George Herbert

  Wise, Wisdom, Bites

  "Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert". Book compiled by George Herbert et al., 1651.

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• My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

  Casey Affleck

  Tree, Making Love, Supportive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

  Karl Kraus

  Jealousy, Dog, Thieves

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

  Malcolm Lowry

  Funny, Dog, Muzzle

  Malcolm Lowry, Sherrill Grace (1995). “Sursum corda!”

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• I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Real, Light

  Edward Steichen, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1963). “A Life in Photography”, Random House Value Pub

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• No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

  Christopher Morley

  Dog, Appreciation, Silly

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• When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  The Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920.

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• It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

  John Milton

  Dark, Eclipse, Curse

  John Milton (1785). “Poems Upon Several Occasions: English, Italian, and Latin”, p.18

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• There are a sort of men, whose visages
  Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond;
  And do a willful stillness entertain,
  With purpose to be dressed in an opinion
  Of wisdom, gravity profound conceit;
  As who should say, I am sir Oracle,
  And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Dog, Men

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88

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• An old dog barks not in vain.

  George Herbert

  Dog, Vain, Old Dog

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.325

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• Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

  Confucius

  Science, Tree, Gravity

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• The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.

  Olive Schreiner

  Tree, Scar, Youth

  Olive Schreiner (2014). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.92, Read Books Ltd

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• It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels forever in flight.

  Khalil Gibran

  Angel, Garden, Wings

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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