RE: The dogs bark (was Re: spreading democracy (was: Bush budget< etc>))

From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Wed Feb 19 2003 - 07:26:00 MST

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    Russell Blackford wrote:
    > etc>))
    >
    >
    > Of course our claim to a high moral
    >> standard suffers, but then in a world were that phrase sugar-coats
    >> true behavior, the dogs bark but caravan moves on.
    >
    > Does anyone know where that last phrase originally came from? I first
    > encountered it in Nancy Kress's writing, where it is referred to,
    > perhaps ironoically, as on old Eastern proverb, or something. Was it
    > someone like Ayn Rand? Or is it a genuine proverb? Or did Kress make
    > it up?
    >
    > It's a phrase that I often use myself.
    >
    ### It's used as a proverb in Poland quite frequently.

    Rafal

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