Companion Quotes

But that guitar is the perfect companion to the human voice. You rest it against your gut, against your heart, and when you strum it the vibrations go outwards for all to hear, but the vibration also hits you on your body.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

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

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

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

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

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.

Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.

I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens.

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

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

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

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.

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.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

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.

A merry companion is as good as a wagon.

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.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.