Howard Jacobson Quotes

My friends: let us have faith in each other. Let us not grow weary.

You can't make someone be your best friend.

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.

Sweat makes good friendship cement.

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

To me, it doesn't matter who you are or where you're from - if you're a good person and you got my back, I got yours.

I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learned the importance of perseverance.

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'

You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.

What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

I appreciate your support, particularly this year, for sticking with me.

Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.

Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I've got people up here who I'm really tight with, we've made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I've got people in my corner I can trust.

When people show loyalty to you, you take care of those who are with you. It's how it goes with everything. If you have a small circle of friends, and one of those friends doesn't stay loyal to you, they don't stay your friend for very long.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Best said possibly the only thing that would have changed my attitude: 'What will happen to me?' 'Your friend MacLeod will look after you,' I said. Best replied, 'If you get out, I get out.' There was silence for some moments. I thought of all the joy of the early experiments which we had known together. Here was loyalty.

If they're a friend, they stick with you through the tough stuff.

Friendship is the most important thing of all.