Wolf Quotes

“If Ihad a third foot,” mused the Master, ‘I'd kick myself with it. It’s bad enough to be unjust to a fellow-man. But it’s worse to treat a dog as I treated Wolf. Because 1 can’t explain to him or apologize or anything, He—”

“Don’t worry,” counseled the Mistress. “See, he’s forgiven you already. When God put dogs into this unjust world of ours, He gave them power of divine forgiveness; to make up to them for all the injustice they were going to receive. Sometimes I think perhaps that puts dogs just a little bit above us humans.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Wolf

“Deene had a refreshing ignorance concerning collies; and indeed of nineteen dog-breeds out of twenty. But he had an equally refreshing faith in himself to give wise decisions on any and all canine matters. So, obligingly, he consented to judge collies at Greenwold in addition to his beloved and ultra-tiny Chihuahuas. A similar thing has been done too often to call for comment.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Wolf

“Why can't somebody invent shows where dogs are judged by their cleverness and dispositions and staunchness and by all the million things that make them worth more than any mere money? Why must they always be judged as if they were prize cattle or pigs;—just by a few show-points that have nothing to do with a dog’s worthwhileness?”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Wolf

“This was Wolf’s first experience with fire as an enemy. Hitherto it had been a warming and pretty thing, pleasant to look at blinkingly. Now he saw it not as a slave to mortals but in its true light as an unleashed devil.

It was menacing these two big friends of his; these horses which were so queerly helpless to get away from it and whose gentle calm had turned to a crazy terror.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Wolf

“Pshaw!”’ scoffed Glure, having assured him self that the cuff of his tweed coat had protected his hand from more than a graze from the slashing teeth. “‘Pshaw, man! What if it was the cat and not the cur? One licking, more or less, doesn’t matter to a dog.”

“One injustice, more or less, matters,” said the Master, self-disgustedly, “I struck him and scolded him for something he didn’t do. I'm going out to look for him.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Wolf

“He was undersized; though witily powerful and as lithe as a panther. His coat, which should have been wavily abundant, was as short and as thick as a chow’s. It was not unlike a chow’s in texture and growth. His bushy tail was three inches too short. His head was broad where it should have been chiseled into classic lines. His muzzle was not long enough for the rest of his head. The “‘stop’”’ above it was too prominent. His glowing dark eyes were round; not almondshaped or slanted as called for in the “Standard of the Breed.”

In brief, he was not a true type of collie; though of royally pure lineage. He was a throwback;—a throwback almost to the ancestral wolves which form the trunk and roots of the collie family-tree. It was this queer outward resemblance to a young timber-wolf which gave him his name.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Wolf

“Chihuahuas and collies?" echoed the Mistress, "What a combination! It's like... judging hummingbirds and eagles!”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Wolf

“Wolf most decidedly was not a show dog. Handsome and wise and fearless he was. But none of those things count in a dog show.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Wolf

“It was a whim of hers. But Mrs. Madden was a woman of iron whim; and her husband had long ago learned to obey her”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Wolf

“Darius Madden had more money than he needed and almost as much money as he wanted.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Wolf