Bark Quotations

In modern times, dogs may be pampered, but historically, a dog's life wasn't much to bark about. Hence a dog's chance is a small chance.

I grew up in rural Oregon in a log house with bark left on inside and out. We had no electricity, a massive stone fireplace, a grand piano, and tons of books.

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

The dogs with the loudest bark are the ones that are most afraid.

The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the time. He doesn't bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.

I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera.

Are we truly being our sisters' keepers? Initially, that dog-eat-dog mentality within us may bark and say that we aren't responsible for other people, but if that was truly the case, then why are we even here? We have so much to offer and give to this world.

I bark my voice out through a closed throat, pretty much. It's more, perhaps, like a dog in some ways. It does have its limitations, but I'm learning different ways to keep it alive.

Her bark is worse than her bite.

I don't keep a dog and bark myself.

Let any man show the world that he feels Afraid of its bark and 't will fly at his heels: Let him fearlessly face it, 't will leave him alone: But 't will fawn at his feet if he flings it a bone

Some 41 percent of dogs are brought into pounds because they bark too much. You can teach dogs to bark on command, you can teach them not to bark.

Buddy is really going to enjoy this, because he's so inquisitive, ... He'll watch TV and bark at it.

Basically, before the hurricane, they went home Friday thinking this thing is going to fizzle out, it's going to bark but it's not going to bite,

HEMP, n. A plant from whose fibrous bark is made an article of neckwear which is frequently put on after public speaking in the open air and prevents the wearer from taking cold.

When they sprayed it, that was the end of the vegetables there. It killed everything. It even took the bark off the trees.

It gave us the opportunity to reclaim all the bark. During the spring months particularly on poplar the bark would slip off.

Record or near-record trade deficits spark howls of concern about the threat posed to the economic expansion, but like inflation, the trade deficit's bark has been far worse than its bite. April's deficit, another near record, simply shows that we are still importing like there is no tomorrow.

I think people tend to forget that trees are living creatures. They're sort of like dogs. Huge, quiet, motionless dogs, with bark instead of fur.

Tis sweet to hear the watch dogs' honest bark - Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark - Our coming and look brighter when we come

The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality.

Be at peace, my friend. One thing I have learnt about Death is that his bark is worse than his bite.

Don't hire a dog, then bark yourself

An old dog barks not in vain.

This reminds me of the famous Sherlock Holmes mystery, where the dog that didn't bark was the key. It was what Greenspan didn't say more than what he did say that got the market excited. People were ready to hear a more upbeat reading on the economy than he gave.

Beware of a man that does not talk and a dog that does not bark

Dixie will have to wait a bit longer for the bark park, but not too much longer. We were hoping to have it ready at the beginning of March but we had some complications brought on by weather.

The woods were wild at nightfall. She heard dim crashing and splashes and the bark of a dog, and through the gaps in the trees was a mottled sky of fading pink and grey discs, microbes moving toward the west. She had almost gotten away but not in time and now leaving wouldn't save her. She lay down on the deck with the woods all around her.

This is an underground movement. The people most involved in the work-to-rule campaign are not wearing buttons and distributing literature...It's the dog that doesn't bark that bites.

They were going to bark at you this way and if you didn't do it right they were going to yell at you.

They don't bark and they don't bite, and they're just the right height for someone in a wheelchair to pet.

It's like a forced strip show while the audience is cheering him on. Then he makes her bark like a dog. It's a form of sexual sadism, and this is on mainstream TV.

It just legitimizes our conference. We always want to bark about how good our league is, yet at some point you have to back it up. I think our whole league did great in the tournament.

Dogs may bark and jackals howl; but Truth moves Majestically forward.

Everybody bark 'aye' if they support the bill,

The bark is just like candy for deer.

Not a leaf moved. Everything was gray. All the houses were the same one color. There were no squirrels, no birds. If you saw something move, it was either a dog or a cat. They clung onto trees. We would bark like dogs and the dogs would bark back at us. I took a speakerphone to amplify my voice.

That's fantastic. We looked at rubber bark before, but we couldn't afford it. I'll take that in a heart beat. Anytime I can get anything from the state, I'll take it.

The Fed is saying that 'we're being tested here, we're being tested on our anti-inflation credibility,' ... They need to sound tough. They need a pretty good bark to go with their bite.

In the third watch, both hunger and thirst bark for attention, and food is put into the mouth. That which is eaten becomes dust, but they are still attached to eating. In the fourth watch, they become drowsy. They close their eyes and begin to dream. Rising up again, they engage in conflicts; they set the stage as if they will live for 100 years. If at all times, at each and every moment, they live in the fear of God - O Nanak, the Lord dwells within their minds, and their cleansing bath is true.

His bark is worse than his bite. He's got a gruff exterior but underneath is a heart of gold.

He said, Master! Master! Speed up. These dogs might bite us' ... 'Be quiet, when the dogs bark it is because we are working.

How strangely our Bark is tossed-Poor as Job yesterday-rich as Croesus Tomorrow!-and who could not wish to live to enjoy this Life of pleasurable anxiety? Not I believe me.

Her bark is really worse than her bite. So you know, she's very effective at barking.

If the old dog barke he gives counsell. [If the old dog barks, he gives counsel.]

His bark is worse than his bite.

I had a dog that was so lazy, he had a prerecorded bark.

Ain't nobody's business, if I bark like a dog.

I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.

Poo" Manchee barks quielty to himself. "Poo, poo, poo." "Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.

The weaker you are the louder you bark. -Tenten

Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.

Cowardly dogs bark loudest.

But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be.

Dogs bark and the caravan goes by.

Dogs bark at a person whom they do not know.

Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

We have a really, really great dog. It doesn't bark. My dog almost smiles, which is weird. He's just a very happy dog.

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on

It was that fatal and perfidious bark / Built in th' eclipse, and rigged with curses dark.

My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger.

It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.

Each dog barks in his own yard!