Companion famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.
-- Alan Ball -
My ideal travel companions are my surfboard, wetsuit, and guitar.
-- Alexander Ludwig -
It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as "the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue."
-- Alexander Woollcott -
The best companion and helper is admirable morals.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Beauty and folly are generally companions.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
-- Berthold Auerbach -
It's not the breed that makes a good companion. All dogs are great companions.
-- Cesar Millan -
My dogs have been my most loyal friends and constant companions.
-- Cesar Millan -
A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier.
-- Che Guevara -
It's a wonderful thing to have a companion like that who just wants to sit by you while you work.
-- Chris Fabry -
These books are my friends, my companions.
-- Christopher Paolini -
Wisdom is the best guide and faith is the best companion.
-- Dalai Lama -
You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.
-- Emily Dickinson -
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.
-- Eugene Delacroix -
[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.
-- Florence Nightingale -
Oh, this thing of keeping in constant touch with God, of making him the object of my thought and the companion of my conversations, is the most amazing thing I ever ran across.
-- Frank Laubach -
Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.
-- Franz Liszt -
Remember, you have no companions but your shadow
-- Genghis Khan -
Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.
-- George Stillman Hillard -
Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins -
Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly to, a delightful solace.
-- Henry Kirke White -
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.
-- Henry Theodore Tuckerman -
My own thoughts Are my companions.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.
-- Iain Pears -
Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.
-- Ian Hacking -
I looked at the canine companion. “Me cookies. You stay.
-- Ilona Andrews -
Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
-- Jack London -
It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion
-- Jacqueline Carey -
Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
-- Jane Austen -
Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.
-- John Green -
A merry companion is as good as a wagon, For you shall be sure to ride though ye go a foot.
-- John Lyly -
In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.
-- John Lyly -
Ignorance and confidence are constant companions
-- John McAfee -
For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion.
-- Johnny Depp -
To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.
-- Jonathan Lethem -
A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.
-- Jonathan Swift -
As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.
-- Juan Goytisolo -
. . . companions were to be valued, wherever one found them.
-- Kate Morton -
Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?
-- Linda Sue Park -
Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion.
-- Mikhail Naimy -
I love the guitar for its harmony; it is my constant companion in all my travels.
-- Niccolo Paganini -
You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.
-- Orison Swett Marden -
Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.
-- Ovid -
Choose your companions before you choose your road.
-- Patrick Lencioni -
Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.
-- Paulo Coelho -
It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.
-- Peg Bracken -
Regret is the most tiresome of companions.
-- Richard Paul Evans -
There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.
-- Rumi -
Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions.
-- Tobias Smollett -
Man without life companion is either god or beast.
-- Vikram -
Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
-- William Butler Yeats -
Be a companion with Christ, and he will draw near unto you and be your best friend. There is no better friend than Christ.
-- William R. Bradford -
A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.
-- William Safire -
Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.
-- William Wycherley -
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
-- Isaac D'Israeli -
I've tried to use my love of music, and spoken word performance to create companion pieces for the book.
-- Rich Ferguson -
No matter what else comes, your courage will be your companion for life.
-- Carolyn Hax -
Am I the kind of person I want my eternal companion to be?
-- Robert Beverly Hale -
Music is not just my passion it's my companion.
-- Ronnie Milsap -
Fly from bad companions as from the bite of a poisonous snake.
-- John Bosco
