I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark,10 Oct, alluding to Jeremiah Markland. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.

All right, have it your own wayöyou heard a seal bark!

-Thurber,James Grover
  Cartoon caption, in the NewYorker, 30 Jan.