Companion Quotes

An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. (Publilius Syrus)
Patience is the companion of wisdom. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. View quote
Paul Valéry
The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to be, this is the path of persuasion (for truth is its companion); the other, that it is not and that it must not be - this I say to you is a path wholly unknowable. View quote
Parmenides
How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice . . . View quote
George Eliot
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. View quote
Norman Borlaug
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves. View quote
Samuel Johnson
A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit. View quote
Walter Scott
I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer who remarked to a companion once that 'it was not best to swap horses while crossing streams.' View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master. (Alan Brennert)
The Beardmore Glacier is not difficult in fine weather, but on our return we did not get a single completely fine day; this with a sick companion enormously increased our anxieties. View quote
Robert Falcon Scott
If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar. View quote
Francis Parkman
It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should be a painters ambition. View quote
John Constable
Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed. View quote
Anne Rice
Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology. View quote
Ian Hacking
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man A splendid slave, a reasoning savage. View quote
Joseph Addison
He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. View quote
Isaac Barrow
Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence. View quote
Jan Smuts
What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity; to be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries! View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work. (Thomas S. Monson)
The best companion and helper is admirable morals. View quote
Ali
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain hall, is engaged in a delicate interplay and exchange with the moon; and it is this of which the poet sings. View quote
Yasunari Kawabata
Speaking of justice Truth is its handmaid, freedom is its child, peace is its companion, safety walks in its steps, victory follows in its train it is the brightest emanation from the Gospel it is the attribute of God. View quote
Sydney Smith