Companion Quotes
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.
A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers.
Success, like fashion, is a fickle companion and can leave one in the wink of an eye.
It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.
Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly.
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.
A merry companion is as good as a wagon, For you shall be sure to ride though ye go a foot.
Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.
I've been following Jesus for 35 years. He's guided me, comforted me, encouraged me, challenged me, befriended me, and been my constant companion since November 8, 1981.
Turkeys are misunderstood. Once I adopted turkeys, I understood this large bird to be a great companion.
I believe that God is the Great Companion, that we are not left orphans, that we may have comradeship with him.
Whether we know it or not, we are all in a quest after the Great Companion. All study, all art, all music, all literature, all government, all industry are in essence a search after the Infinite.
It's wrenching enough to lose the man who is your lover, your companion, your best friend, the father of your children, without losing yourself as well.
For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.
My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.
My wife is - in the strictest sense - my sole companion, and I need no other. There is no vacancy in my mind any more than in my heart.
My dad was a great movie companion. He wouldn't diminish 'The Jerk.' If I liked it, he liked it. He could see it through my eyes.
Although it is a symbol of life, the female body is unfortunately not rarely attacked and disfigured, even by those who should be its protector and life companion.
When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.
What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.
I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.
When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.
I've tried to use my love of music, and spoken word performance to create companion pieces for the book.
One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
Because she’s Acheron companion. (Astrid) Ash has a companion? (Zarek) (The demon snorted. She stood up and whispered loudly in Astrid’s ear.) Dark-Hunters are cute, but very stupid. (Simi)
Even for charity I always give priority to education because I always teach young people - knowledge is your real companion, your life long companion, not fortune. Fortune can disappear.
Being born he have himself as our Companion, Eating with us he gave himself as Food, Dying He became our Ransom, Reigning he gives himself as our Reward
Mobile isn’t just a media channel, it’s her constant companion that makes juggling easier. It makes her feel like a better mom.
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.
Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.
She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.
Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory wrecked.
Be a companion with Christ, and he will draw near unto you and be your best friend. There is no better friend than Christ.
A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.