“An artist’s touches are sometimes no more articulate than the barking of a dog who would call attention to something without exactly knowing what. This is as it should be, and he is a great artist who can be depended on not to bark at nothing.”

“When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

“The old dog barks backward without getting up;
I can remember when he was a pup.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

“You, the Poles, have a funny nature. When the people going along the road are attacked by a dog with its insistent and noisy barking, you immediately feel like jumping off the vehicle, standing on all fours and starting to bark back at it. We, in the Vilnius region, let the dog bark because that is what its canine nature is like but we do not stop out journey because of its canine barking and without any war against dogs we calmly continue our journey until we reach our destination. It seems that you care more about barking more than the dog does and about winning the war with any lousy puppy than about reaching the destination quickly.”

Józef Piłsudski (1867–1935) Polish politician and Prime Minister

“3736. One barking Dog, sets all the Street a barking.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

“He told them it was only dogs that bark and go for strange dogs, and men set on a dog because it suits them to show that they are still masters, but if the dogs weren't dumb animals they would come to an agreements with each other and start barking at them.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

“One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.”

Irving Stone book The Agony and the Ecstasy

“193. If the old dog barke he gives counsell.”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest

“I have a little dog who likes to nap with me.
He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck.
He is sweeter than soap.
He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace,
which can't even bark…”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

“[ An old dog barks not in vain. ]”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest