Buff Quotes

“There are easier ways, you know, of showing how much inferior you are to a dog than by kicking him.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Buff: A Collie and Other Dog Stories

“Humans had celebrated her recovery with presents, and he, watching, had imitated them. He had gone far and had toiled hard to bring her an offering that his canine mind deemed all-desirable.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Buff: A Collie and Other Dog Stories

“Watch me do it, Jeff! Watch me do it, square!”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Buff: A Collie and Other Dog Stories

“This dog, Robin Adair, was the joy of Eve’s heart – or he had been, when her heart still could hold joy and not merely fever and delirium.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Buff: A Collie and Other Dog Stories

“A dog-pound is not pleasant to look upon. It is little pleasanter to think upon. It is one of the needful evils of every large town – an evil that is needful to public health and to public safety, so say the city fathers.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Buff: A Collie and Other Dog Stories

“He had failed. He had awakened with the sudden knowledge of his master’s peril. He had followed the urge of the call. And all at once he had realized that for some reason he cold not hope to lead his mistress to the man who so sorely needed her aid. Perplexed, heartsick, he had crawled back; helpless to do more.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Buff: A Collie and Other Dog Stories

“Then, over the smugly complacent land, rang a bugle call. Half the world was sick unto death with the Hun pestilence, and America alone could stay the hideous disease’s assault on humanity. America alone could cure a dying world. To achieve this Heaven-sent miracle, the lives of thousands of brave men were needed. An at the terrible blast of the bugle-call these men responded in the millions.

Dick Snowden was one of them.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Buff: A Collie and Other Dog Stories

“Up to this time everybody had moved on tiptoe about the sick-room, and had talked in undertones. But Jock was no respecter of silence. He gamboled and barked to his heart’s content. Partly amused and partly annoyed by his bumptiousness, Klyda found herself for the first time unable to sink at will into that dreamy apathy of hers. It is hard to dream, when a tiny furry whirlwind is charging at one or is professing to believe that one’s white fingers are a mortal foe to be nibbled and threatened.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Buff: A Collie and Other Dog Stories

“A dog is only a dog. But a collie is – a collie. Says the scotch proverb:
“A collie has the brain of a man, and the ways of a woman!”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Buff: A Collie and Other Dog Stories

“Buff paused beneath a shut and locked window, some three feet from the ground. He gathered his waning strength f
or one more effort, and sprang upward.
Through the thin and cracked glass and the rotting sash he chose his way, alighting on the slimy concrete floor of the garage amid a shower of window particles.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Buff: A Collie and Other Dog Stories

“Over the brow of a ridge, across the winding high road, flashed a tawny and white shape that was silhouetted for an instant on the pulsing sky-line – the shape of a large collie running as not dog but a collie or a greyhound can run. Close to earth, in his sweeping stride, Buff was coming at full speed in response the far-heard whistle.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Buff: A Collie and Other Dog Stories

“But-where in blue blazes did a thoroughbred collie ever pick up that bulldog grip?”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Buff: A Collie and Other Dog Stories

“She was a mixture of the unmixable. Not one expert in eighty could have guessed at her breed or breeds.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Buff: A Collie and Other Dog Stories

“Consciousness of innocence is an excellent anchor, no doubt. But what good is an anchor after the ship has sunk?”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Buff: A Collie and Other Dog Stories

“Would Man but deign to serve his God as they, Millennium must dawn within the year.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Buff: A Collie and Other Dog Stories