The best Quotes from Marley & Me

A dog has no use for fancy cars, big homes, or designer clothes. A water logged stick will do just fine. A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. Give him your heart and he'll give you his. How many people can you say that about? How many people can make you feel rare and pure and special? How many people can make you feel extraordinary?

Jenny: "You're part of the plan."
John: "Oh yeah?"
Jenny: "My plan - step 1: meet an incredibly sweet, smart, sexy man."
John: "Done. Step 2?"
Jenny: "Marry you instead."

Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky.

A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. Give him your heart and he'll give you his.

Owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.

There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner.

He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place.

Arnie Klein: "Listen, take a vacation. Go away for a couple of weeks. Take a month off."
John: "Go where?"
Arnie Klein: "I dunno."
John: "I live in a vacation spot."
Arnie Klein: "Then go to someplace where it's painful and sad."

Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.

If you still think you're a young pup then you are, no matter what the calendar says.

When I wrote "Marley & Me", I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my book for adults and assumed only adults, and possibly teenagers, would be drawn to it.

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

Cats will outsmart dogs every time.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.

You know, I've got wrinkles on my forehead and smile lines, but what's wrong with that? I love to smile.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

I feel sexy in my jeans and wearing my boyfriend's T-shirt.

Oh, it's not really gambling when you never lose.

I spent my first paycheck on a vintage Mercedes.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

I am NOT telling you to be aggressive! I am telling you to stay in control. Be calm and assertive!

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

Happiness starts with a wet nose and ends with a tail.

Who feeds a hungry animal, feeds his own soul.

All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

I once considered keeping some pets in my office, but soon gave up on the idea. It's just not right to keep small animals where they won't be able to see the sun.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.