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."
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."
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.
Quotes about Marley & Me
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.
