Barking Dogs Quotes

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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Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

Max Eastman

Dog, Laughter, Laughing

Max Eastman (2008). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.34, Transaction Publishers

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Barking dogs don't bite, but they themselves don't know it.

Sholom Aleichem

Dog, Bites, Knows

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If I stop to kick every barking dog I am not going to get where I'm going.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Inspiring, Dog, Strong Women

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The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on

Joseph Needham

Dog, Moving, May

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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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Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.

Juan Williams

Dog, Moving, Wagons

"Bush and Clinton Update on Haiti on "Fox News Sunday"". Interview with Brit Hume, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 17, 2010.

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Keep your eye on the main chance and don't stop to kick every barking dog.

Morton Blackwell

Dog, Eye, Chance

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A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Washington Irving

Dog, Sleep, Pet

Washington Irving (1862). “Works of Washington Irving”, p.221

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Even in the middle of barking dogs, you can hear the footsteps of a big revolution!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Dog, Revolution, Middle

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Forgiveness is not simply the absolving of an enemy, or one who has done us wrong. Forgiveness must encompass all those things which disturb the tranquility of our soul: the barking dog that robs you of sleep, the heat of summer, the cold of winter. Forgive the ingrown toenail, the flea that bites; forgive the cranky child, wrinkles, a forgotten birthday.

Barbara Wood

Forgiveness, Summer, Dog

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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

Aldous Huxley

Dog, Animal, Men

Readers Digest, 1934.

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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

Milan Kundera

Jealousy, Dog, Evil

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

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When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.

Charles A. Dana

Funny, Dog, Men

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People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

August Strindberg

Funny, Dog, Humor

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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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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Francis Bacon

Dog, Truth, Errors

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The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Funny, Dog, People

Letter to John Forster, 1850.

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A leaky faucet, a barking dog - those are things you tolerate.

Candace Gingrich-Jones

Dog, Tolerate

"Kick in the Tush Club: Reinvent Your Life" by Janice Taylor, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2009.

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I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

Rita Rudner

Dog, Witty, Religious

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What does it matter if a few barking dogs snap at the heels of the weary travelers? ... The caravan moves on

Bruce R. McConkie

Dog, Perseverance, Moving

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I met Keith Haring at SVA college where he was having an art show, later we had a group art show at the Mud Club in NYC. Keith owed me $50, so he gave me a large framed canvas with barking dogs that had large dicks. I painted over Keith's painting to paint flowers for my mom's living room.

Steve Kaufman

Mom, Dog, Art

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I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Winston Churchill

Funny, Life, Leadership

Speech at the Reform Club, April 28, 1981.

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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

Running, Dog, Children

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Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name for a kid at the time. I had this idea of an angry father yelling "Bart," and Bart sounds kind of like bark - like a barking dog.

Matt Groening

Dog, Father, School

"Matt Groening Reveals the Location of the Real Springfield". Interview with Claudia De La Roca, www.smithsonianmag.com. May 2012.

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