When Tze-kung told Confucius what the man had said, he smiled cheerfully and replied, "Appearances are unimportant. But to say I'm like a stray dog, that's good!
子貢找到老師，向他說起方才路人形容老師如何如何… …，夫子聽得笑了起來；說長得像堯、皋陶、子產…… 那倒未必，把自己著急的樣子形容成「喪家之狗」，倒真是「然哉！