Companions Quotes

Companions are we, enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule.

People always joke that "dog" spells "god" backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe.

It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.

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.

Medicine and writing are natural companions.

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.

It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

I employ 20 people in Vienna. The other 130 coworkers are pilots and flight companions. The Overhead is limited with me. Reduces naturally the costs of my fliers.

Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.

'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.