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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
Sep 29, 2025
A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment. Everything in a novel is explicitly chosen, whereas some of what a film captures feels incidental, according to the vagaries of photography and sound recording.
To most of you, your neighbor is a stranger, a guy with a barkin' dog and a high fence around him. Now you can't be a stranger to any guy that's on your own team. So tear down the fence that separates you. Tear down the fence and you'll tear down a lot of hates and prejudices. Tear down all the fences in the country and you'll really have teamwork.
The tree looks like a dog, barking at heaven.
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.
Barking dogs may occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot!
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.
What does it matter if a few barking dogs snap at the heels of the weary travelers? ... The caravan moves on
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.
A leaky faucet, a barking dog - those are things you tolerate.
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.
When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.
Even in the middle of barking dogs, you can hear the footsteps of a big revolution!
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
Keep your eye on the main chance and don't stop to kick every barking dog.
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.
Barking dogs don't bite, but they themselves don't know it.
If I stop to kick every barking dog I am not going to get where I'm going.
The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on
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.
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
One minute she acts like she wants to be with me and I'm the one rejecting her. The next, she's got this barbed wire fence and barking dogs around her, like I can't even ask her the simplest questions." "And here I was assuming you didn't care about her." Stabbing his fingers through his hair, he groaned, "I don't!" "And you make it perfectly clear." Men. Idiots.
People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
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.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
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