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Quotes About Barking

Only the long melancholy call to prayer, or the wail of women over the dead, or the barking of dogs, breaks the silence which at sunset falls as a pall over Baghdad.
~ Isabella Bird
A barking dog is more useful than a sleeping lion
~ Washington Irving
Though there are some notable exceptions, by and large the persistent ranting of the Warren Commission critics, some of whom were screaming the word 'conspiracy' before the fatal bullet had even come to rest, came to remind me, as H. L. Mencken said in a different context, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights.
~ Vincent Bugliosi
While discussing the monster: It sounds like the combination of water being poured into a glass, Miss Hawkline said, A dog barking and the muttering of a drunk parrot. And very, very loud. I think we're going to need the shotgun for this one, Cameron said.
~ Richard Brautigan
You should have heard the boatman who brought me up here from the Glades. Fire in the northern sky, lights in the marshes, a black dog heard barking through the night. Doesn't occur to anyone to wonder how exactly you can tell it's a black dog just from the fucking bark it makes.
~ Richard K. Morgan
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
Dusty rarely barks, but did she ever send up a clamor now, barking like there was no tomorrow.
~ Will Hobbs
My dog was barking at everyone the other day. Still, what can you expect from a cross-breed.
~ Tommy Cooper
It does no good to bark at the television, I said. I've tried it too. So he stopped.
~ Mary Oliver, House of Light
As he stepped into the sunlight, he heard the seals barking loudly. They must have an audience. Slick glory seekers. Whiskered prima donnas.
~ Richard Matheson
We'd reached the bottom of the mountain when Kenjii stopped. Her ears swiveled forward and she glanced up into the trees. "Cat," I said to the others. Corey looked at Kenjii, who was silently scanning the treetops. "Yeah, you can tell by the way she's going crazy, barking and racing around to drive off the despicable feline. Your dog is weird, Maya.
~ Kelley Armstrong
The two "idiots" Ginger and Zach, both golden retrievers, both beautiful-looking dogs—and both thicker than bricks when it came to brains—had been out sunning on the bedroom deck. They stood up and barked madly, as if he were an invader. Though if he were a real invader they'd have cowered in terror and stained the carpet as they fled into Jennifer's room to hide.
~ William R. Forstchen
The little dogs and all,Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me.
~ William Shakespeare
The world is a silence broken by the barking of a stray dog.
~ Yasmina Khadra
you can't teach a dog not to bark, for 'tis God's will that they do
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
there, barking loudly; but Dorothy sat quite still on the floor and waited to see what would happen. Once Toto got too near the open trap door, and fell in; and at
~ L. Frank Baum
The half-dozen temple dogs circle him and Alf in a delirium of barking, clicking paws, and waving tails. They're mixed breeds, smooth-haired, ears neither floppy nor exactly pointed, and a few with the long legs, fleet feet, of racing hounds. Two are from the Humane Society. Two are rescue dogs from a meat restaurant in South Korea.
~ Lan Samantha Chang
For decades, or at least for years, Republican politicians have been dog whistling about race. And then, when - they're shocked when Donald Trump starts barking.
~ Sherrod Brown
With my dog I don't get no respect. He keeps barking at the front door. He don't want to go out. He wants me to leave.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
The reign of Christ has been established. The nations who object to this settlement trouble the decrees of God about as much as dogs barking at the moon trouble the moon.
~ Douglas Wilson
Feed the dogs. I hate to hear them barking like that.
~ Lillie Langtry
whimper in the dark, and knew that Vixen had found me at last. She knew as well as I did that if there is one thing in the world the elephant is more afraid of than another it is a little barking dog. So she
~ Rudyard Kipling
BARKY THE BARKING DOG SHOW
~ Andy Griffiths
For example, to prevent your puppy from barking every time someone comes to the door or walks by, have treats and toys at the ready and use them to distract your puppy.
~ Sarah Hodgson