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Top 10 Albert Payson Terhune Quotes (2025 Update)

Albert Payson Terhune Quote: “Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.”

1. “Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.”

— Albert Payson Terhune

Albert Payson Terhune Quote: “Soon or late, every dog’s master’s memory becomes a graveyard; peopled by wistful little furry ghosts that creep back unbidden, at times, to a semblance of their olden lives.”

2. “Soon or late, every dog’s master’s memory becomes a graveyard; peopled by wistful little furry ghosts that creep back unbidden, at times, to a semblance of their olden lives.”

— Albert Payson Terhune

Albert Payson Terhune Quote: “The Master talked of buying a whalebone-and-steel-and-snow bull terrier, or a more formidable if more greedy Great Dane. But the Mistress wanted a collie. So they compromised by getting the collie.”

3. “The Master talked of buying a whalebone-and-steel-and-snow bull terrier, or a more formidable if more greedy Great Dane. But the Mistress wanted a collie. So they compromised by getting the collie.”

— Albert Payson Terhune

Albert Payson Terhune Quote: “This is the magic secret of dog training – lose control over yourself and you at once lose control of the dog. Your strongest and most irresistible weapon is iron patience.”

4. “This is the magic secret of dog training – lose control over yourself and you at once lose control of the dog. Your strongest and most irresistible weapon is iron patience.”

— Albert Payson Terhune

Albert Payson Terhune Quote: “No breeder is above catering to intelligent praise of his dog.”

5. “No breeder is above catering to intelligent praise of his dog.”

— Albert Payson Terhune

Albert Payson Terhune Quote: “Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.”

6. “Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.”

— Albert Payson Terhune

Albert Payson Terhune Quote: “The dog was cold and in pain. But being only a dog it did not occur to him to trot off home to the comfort of the library fire and leave his master to fend for himself.”

7. “The dog was cold and in pain. But being only a dog it did not occur to him to trot off home to the comfort of the library fire and leave his master to fend for himself.”

— Albert Payson Terhune

Albert Payson Terhune Quote: “All dogs die too soon. Many humans don’t die soon enough. A dog is only a dog. And a dog is too gorgeously normal and wholesome to be made ridiculous in death by his owner’s sloppy sentimentality.”

8. “All dogs die too soon. Many humans don’t die soon enough. A dog is only a dog. And a dog is too gorgeously normal and wholesome to be made ridiculous in death by his owner’s sloppy sentimentality.”

— Albert Payson Terhune

Albert Payson Terhune Quote: “When a puppy takes fifty catnaps in the course of the day, he cannot always be expected to sleep the night through.”

9. “When a puppy takes fifty catnaps in the course of the day, he cannot always be expected to sleep the night through.”

— Albert Payson Terhune

Albert Payson Terhune Quote: “He was Sunnybank Lad; eighty-pound collie; tawny and powerful; with absurdly tine white forepaws and with a Soul looking out from his deep-set dark eyes. Chum and housemate he was to two human gods; – a dog, alone of all worshipers, having the privilege of looking on the face of his gods and of communing with them without the medium of priest or of prayer.”

10. “He was Sunnybank Lad; eighty-pound collie; tawny and powerful; with absurdly tine white forepaws and with a Soul looking out from his deep-set dark eyes. Chum and housemate he was to two human gods; – a dog, alone of all worshipers, having the privilege of looking on the face of his gods and of communing with them without the medium of priest or of prayer.”

— Albert Payson Terhune

Albert Payson Terhune Quote: “There are easier ways, you know, of showing how much inferior you are to a dog than by kicking him.”

11. “There are easier ways, you know, of showing how much inferior you are to a dog than by kicking him.”

— Albert Payson Terhune

Albert Payson Terhune Quote: “An Indian told them the mountain didn’t want to be climbed – that it cut the rope itself in some mystic way, to keep from being explored – that it grudged anyone discovering its summit. And ‘Grudge Mountain’ it has been, from that day.”

12. “An Indian told them the mountain didn’t want to be climbed – that it cut the rope itself in some mystic way, to keep from being explored – that it grudged anyone discovering its summit. And ‘Grudge Mountain’ it has been, from that day.”

— Albert Payson Terhune

Albert Payson Terhune Quote: “He ain’t never been hit, nor yet swore at. An’ he don’t need to be. Treat him nice, like he’s used to bein’ treated. An’ don’t get sore on him if he mopes fer me, jes’ at fust. Because he’s sure to. Dogs ain’t like folks. They got hearts. Folks has only got souls. I guess dogs has the best of it, at that.”

13. “He ain’t never been hit, nor yet swore at. An’ he don’t need to be. Treat him nice, like he’s used to bein’ treated. An’ don’t get sore on him if he mopes fer me, jes’ at fust. Because he’s sure to. Dogs ain’t like folks. They got hearts. Folks has only got souls. I guess dogs has the best of it, at that.”

— Albert Payson Terhune

Albert Payson Terhune Quote: “Some proverbs live because they are too true to die. Others endure because they have a smug sound and nobody has bothered to bury them.”

14. “Some proverbs live because they are too true to die. Others endure because they have a smug sound and nobody has bothered to bury them.”

— Albert Payson Terhune

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