Howard Jacobson Quotes

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

Never marry someone in hope that they'll change later.

I want to date someone who likes who I am as a person and not what I do for a living.

The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.

Luckily, my wife is amazing. She's one of the few people in my life I'm completely honest with. I've told her everything about my past. She knows me inside and out. There's no secrets at all.

By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.

I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us.

It's not the traditional promise ring. It's basically to always stay truthful. I think that's a really important part of a relationship, that you're always honest with each other.

In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you.

There's that thing that if you want to have any kind of lasting love, I think you have to love the whole person and not just the parts of them that you choose.

I'm very old. I haven't got time to be charming.

My dad has always been my coach. And I've spent so much time with him. So he's one of my best friends. And I can talk to him about everything.

If you have feelings for someone, be honest with yourself and the person you care about, but trust that there is someone out there who will love you for who you are and will stay by your side.

My closest friends are the ones who tell me that I'm being dumb or that I'm being wrong.

My views are simple. If you're gonna make a commitment, particularly marriage, stick to it. If you can't compromise, you've got no chance.

If the guy does not treat you with love and respect, does not cease-and-desist with all the game playing, is not willing to share his world with you, then he is bad for you.

I wouldn't want to be in a relationship where I'm not even free to be myself.

I accept you can't achieve perfection all the time, but you can achieve perfection of intent, maybe. I don't think you can go into a relationship with anything other than the intention of it being perfect.

I cannot just blindly love someone.

You need time to build relationships with subjects to win their trust.

When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity is a lie.

A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?