Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
by Charles Lamb

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb

I always arrive late at the office,
but I make up for it by leaving early.
- Charles Lamb

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
- Charles Lamb

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is the province of knowledge to speak,
and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell

To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono

Understand that the right to
choose your own path
is a sacred privilege.
Use it.
Dwell in possibility.
- Oprah Winfrey

Each and every human being on Earth
has both the responsibility and the privilege
of viewing themselves as Divine beings
with the power to bring about peace.
- James Twyman

I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono

Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie

If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen

Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin

What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle

Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron

Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran

A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee

Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus

Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire

The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie