Albert Payson Terhune famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.
-- Albert Payson Terhune

#Winning #Losing #Excuse
Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.
-- Albert Payson Terhune

#Dog #Differences #Stranger
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

#Dog #Memories #Animal
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

#Sleep #Night #Fifty
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

#Friendship #Dog #Pain
Any man with money to make the purchase may become a dog's owner. But no man --spend he ever so much coin and food and tact in the effort-- may become a dog's Master without consent of the dog. Do you get the difference? And he whom a dog once unreservedly accepts as Master is forever that dog's God.
-- Albert Payson Terhune

#Dog #Men #Differences
I have learned, as has many another better writer, to summon inspiration to my call as soon as I begin my day's stint, and not to hang around waiting for it. Inspiration is merely a pretty phrase for the zest to work. And it can be cultivated by anyone who has the patience to try. Inspiration that will not come at its possessor's summons is like a dog that cannot be trained to obey. The sooner both are gotten rid of, the better.
-- Albert Payson Terhune

#Dog #Inspiration #Zest
No breeder is above catering to intelligent praise of his dog.
-- Albert Payson Terhune

#Dog #Intelligent #Praise

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy
I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
I Can't win the World Cup alone
Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.
Losing gets old. It's just been a heck of a month, to be honest with you.
I don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now.
The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.
Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.

Albert Payson Terhune famous quotes

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