“193. If the old dog barke he gives counsell.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“193. If the old dog barke he gives counsell.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“The old dog barks backward without getting up;
I can remember when he was a pup.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
" The Span of Life http://members.tripod.com/~AMDB7/poems/thespanoflife.html" (1936) <br class="br">1930s
“3736. One barking Dog, sets all the Street a barking.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“The dogs may bark but the caravan moves on.”
Paul Keating (1944) Australian politician, 24th Prime Minister of Australia
Referring to his economic record, 7.30 Report, August 6, 2008. 7.30 Report Interview http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2008/s2326431.htm
“Let the dog bark; the moon shall beam on.”
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980) Shah of Iran
As quoted in Gholam R. Afkhami (2009) The life and times of the Shah, page 261
The 'dog' was a reference to Khomeini
Attributed
“Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.”
Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
Fragment 97
Numbered fragments
“The tree looks like a dog, barking at heaven.”
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
Book of Haikus (2003)
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
Source: The moon and the bonfire (1950), Chapter XVIII, p. 107
“I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine.”
Albert Camus book The Stranger
The Stranger (1942)