Companion Quotes

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

To keep farmers on the farm we must maintain a strong farm safety net, but we will also have to build a thriving companion economy to compliment production agriculture in rural America.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents who had dogs with them. Because you know they had a little edge. They have a friend.

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.

I am happy now, to recall that I was not only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Never make a companion equal to a brother.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake.

My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

I carry Yeats with me wherever I go. He's my constant companion. I always can find some comfort in Yeats no matter what the situation is. Months and months and months go by and I know I need to switch to Shelley or somebody else, but right now Yeats is enough for me.

Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.