relationships quotes

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They’re worth it.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.