
“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
A collection of quotes on the topic of bark, dogs, dog, tree.
“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
Letter 130 (to the Queen of Navarre), 28 April, 1545.
Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), edited bt Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 284
Mahfouz (1957) Palace of Desire Part II; Cited in Matt Schudel " Leading Arab Novelist Gave Streets a Voice http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/30/AR2006083000475.html" in: Washington Post, August 31, 2006
“People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.”
Quoted in Picasso on Art (1988), ed. Dore Ashton.
Attributed from posthumous publications
“The fox barks not, when he would steal the lamb.”
Suffolk, Act III, scene i.
Henry VI, Part 2 (1592)
Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (1948), part II, chapter 1, p. 74
1940s
An Account of Col. Crockett's Tour to the North and Down East : In the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-four (1835), p. 172
Context: I am sorry to say I do doubt the honesty of many men that are called good at home, that have given themselves up to serve a party. I am no man's man. I bark at no man's bid. I will never come and go, and fetch and carry, at the whistle of the great man in the white house, no matter who he is. And if this petty, un-patriotic scuffling for men, and forgetting principles, goes on, it will be the overthrow of this one happy nation, and the blood and toil of our ancestors will have been expended in vain.
“Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.”
Fragment 97
Numbered fragments
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Source: The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie
“Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”
Success
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)
“The weaker you are the louder you bark.
-Tenten”
Source: Naruto, Band 11
Source: The City of Dreaming Books
“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”
Montreal Mirror http://web.archive.org/20020703023107/www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2002/032102/news3.html
In response to people who say it is natural to eat meat
Inarticulate Touches
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IX - A Painter's Views on Painting
tr. Alan Myers, The Harvill Press, 1996, Part 1, Chapter 2, pp. 100-101
cited and discussed in Peter Doyle, Iurii Dombrovskii: Freedom Under Totalitarianism, Routledge, 2000, p. 145 https://books.google.com/books?id=MoLCsjaQT08C&lpg=PA145&ots=ekC9_khOAS&dq=%22It%20really%20was%20a%20dead%20grove%22&pg=PA145#v=onepage&q=%22It%20really%20was%20a%20dead%20grove%22&f=false
The Faculty of Useless Knowledge (1975)
St. 28.
The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1785)
“3736. One barking Dog, sets all the Street a barking.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Travels in Alaska http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/travels_in_alaska/ (1915), chapter 2: Alexander Archipelago and the Home I Found in Alaska
1910s
"A Magic Mountain" (1975), trans. Czesław Miłosz and Lillian Vallee
Hymn of the Pearl (1981)
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
““Do not,” Dakkar barked, “juxtapose yourself and myself in any sentence your mouth may form!”
Source: Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014), Chapter 24, “Dakkar” (p. 234)
Speech in Limehouse, East London (30 July 1909), quoted in Better Times: Speeches by the Right Hon. D. Lloyd George, M.P., Chancellor of the Exchequer (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910), pp. 154-155.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
p. 2 https://archive.org/stream/mythsofthehindus00niveuoft#page/n21/mode/2up
Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists (1913)
Traits and Trials of Early Life (1836), 'The Little Boy's Bed-time' translation from Mdme. Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Translations, From the French
“All right, have it your way — you heard a seal bark!”
Cartoon caption, The New Yorker (30 January 1932); "Women and Men", The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments (1932); also used in "The Lady on the Bookcase", Alarms and Diversions (1957).
Cartoon captions
“Thus I steer my bark, and sail
On even keel, with gentle gale.”
The Spleen (1737)
On the Missouri Compromise, in a letter to John Holmes (22 April 1820), published in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1816-1826 (1899) edited by Paul Leicester Ford, v. 10, p. 157; also quoted by Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Emancipation Proclamation Centennial Address http://www.nps.gov/anti/historyculture/mlk-ep.htm at the New York Civil War Centennial Commission’s Emancipation Proclamation Observance, New York City (12 September 1962)
1820s
To Thomas Moore http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-TomMoore.htm, st. 1 (1817).
“Old Rover in his moss-greened house
Mumbles a bone, and barks at a mouse.”
Summer Evening.
As quoted in "'Never Happier in My Life' Ruth Tells Grantland Rice..."
Part ii, canto vii.
Lucile (1860)
Book ii, line 270.
The Course of Time (published 1827)
Un chanteur ou une cantatrice capable de chanter seize mesures seulement de bonne musique avec une voix naturelle, bien posée, sympathique, et de les chanter sans efforts, sans écarteler la phrase, sans exagérer jusqu'à la charge les accents, sans platitude, sans afféterie, sans mièvreries, sans fautes de français, sans liaisons dangereuses, sans hiatus, sans insolentes modifications du texte, sans transposition, sans hoquets, sans aboiements, sans chevrotements, sans intonations fausses, sans faire boiter le rhythme, sans ridicules ornements, sans nauséabondes appogiatures, de manière enfin que la période écrite par le compositeur devienne compréhensible, et reste tout simplement ce qu'il l'a faite, est un oiseau rare, très-rare, excessivement rare.
À travers chants, ch. 8 http://www.hberlioz.com/Writings/ATC08.htm; Elizabeth Csicsery-Rónay (trans.) The Art of Music and Other Essays (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994) p. 69.
“My bark is wafted to the strand
By breath Divine;
And on the helm there rests a hand
Other than mine.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 280.
Stanza 2.
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers http://www.poetry-archive.com/h/landing_of_the_pilgrim_fathers.html (1826)
“193. If the old dog barke he gives counsell.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Dialogue between Hans Arp and Kurt Schwitters, (1956) with introduction in: Franz Müllers Drahtfrühling-- Memories of Kurt Schwitters; as quoted in I is Style, ed. Siegfried Gohr & Gunda Luyken, commissioned by w:Rudi Fuchs, 2000, pp. 139-140
1950s
Statement announcing his resignation as pope, quoted in ABCNews http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/vatican-pope-resigning-feb-28-18462573, 'Pope Benedict to Resign, Vatican Says' (11 February 2013)
2013
John Calvin, quoted in The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations (2001) by Martin H. Manser, p. 56
Misattributed
"Return" st. 2, 1962; New Collected Poems, New Directions, 2002, ISBN 0-811-21488-5
Quote in Un Nouveau Realisme, la Couleur Pure et l'Object, Fernand Léger, Ms 1935
Quotes of Fernand Leger, 1930's
December 27, 1857
Journals (1838-1859)
Hugo Chávez in retort to a comment by U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1017687B-D4D6-4C95-B46B-910CAEE66A9F.htm
2005
“Let the dog bark; the moon shall beam on.”
As quoted in Gholam R. Afkhami (2009) The life and times of the Shah, page 261
The 'dog' was a reference to Khomeini
Attributed
Source: The Man With the Iron Heart (2008), p. 56-57
Electronic Musician magazine, December 1986
Interviews
Song 16: "Against Quarrelling and Fighting".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
1860s, The Prayer of the Twenty Millions (1862)
Source: 1960s, "The Use and Misuse of Game Theory," 1962, p. 108
“Gentlemen, I am a bulldog, and you will find my bark is worse!”
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)
“[ An old dog barks not in vain. ]”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Denn wir müssen sterben, mit kurzem Verzug, und vielleicht brauchen die Leichen keinen so weiten Faltenwurf, den Weg alles Fleisches zu gehen. Der brüderlich innere Reichtum wird nicht minder kurzer Spuk, verwest zu Baumrinde wie Rübezahls falsche Schätze: zeigt sich in ihm keine Kraft, gar den Tod zu bestehen, zu besiegen, mithin nicht nur von unten an hindurch zu gehen, sondern auch an sich selbst ein kräftig oberer Teil zu sein und das Wesenselement des ewigen Lebens.
Source: Man on His Own: Essays in the Philosophy of Religion (1959), p. 41
“The dogs may bark but the caravan moves on.”
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
Source: The moon and the bonfire (1950), Chapter XVIII, p. 107
“Arguing with reality is like trying to teach a cat to bark—hopeless.”
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
"Inferior Religions" (1917), cited from Lawrence Rainey (ed.) Modernism: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005) pp. 208-9.
Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book III. Jason and Medea, Lines 744–755
1895, page 350
John of the Mountains, 1938
Speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (8 October 1952)