Top 100 Quotes About Companions
#1. Ambitions and dreams put you at a drinking table with unexpected companions. Cups were filled and refilled, making you drunk with the illusion of changing the world.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#2. We killed you and it was not new for us, we killed the companions of the Prophet and the friends of God. O how many Messengers did we slay? O how many imams? We killed you and you prayed the night prayer, as all of our days are struggle - and all of our days are Karbala.
Nizar Qabbani
#3. I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.
Daniel Pennac
#4. Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.
Dan Greenburg
#5. The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.
Laozi
#6. The trick, my brethren and sisters is to enjoy the journey, traveling hand in hand, in sunshine and storm, as companions who love one another.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#7. Talk to strangers politely. You don't how many of them will become your close companions.
Israelmore Ayivor
#8. Proverbs 16:28-30 28 A troublemaker plants seeds of strife; gossip separates the best of friends. 29 Violent people mislead their companions, leading them down a harmful path. 30 With narrowed eyes, people plot evil; with a smirk, they plan their mischief.
Anonymous
#9. However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful or even better fed than his companions.
Maxim Gorky
#10. My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits.
Peter O'Toole
#12. 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.
Charles Lamb
#13. Mud, rubbish and dirt are man's companions all his life; shouldn't they be precious to him, and isn't one doing man's service to remind him of their beauty?
Jean Dubuffet
#14. 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.
Robert Falcon Scott
#15. 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.
Buffalo Bill
#16. Companions in pathos,who barely murmur,go with your lamp spent and return the jewels. A new mystery sings in your bones. Cultivate your legitimate strangeness.
Rene Char
#18. The sense of contentment is a key factor for attaining happiness. Bodily health, material wealth and companions and friends are three factors for happiness. Contentment is the key that will determine the outcome of your relations with all three of these factors.
Dalai Lama XIV
#20. I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#21. The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since we humans programmed this vulnerability, it's our responsibility to ensure that our dogs do not suffer as a result.
John Bradshaw
#22. We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.
Artemas Ward
#23. Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible.
Winston Churchill
#24. I didn't know that empty rationalization was part of your programming," said Ram.
"We would not be fit companions for human beings without it.
Orson Scott Card
#25. Such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.
William Shakespeare
#26. It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.
Charles Caleb Colton
#28. Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#29. of you still lost in the darkness, may your traveling companions
Danielle Steel
#30. Yet, if the hour of my death is nigh, I could ask for no more honorable companions by my side.
Jay Allan
#31. I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.
Hernando Cortes
#33. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.
Henry Miller
#34. Even if it is painful and lonely, associate with worthy companions.
Chris Prentiss
#35. We don't know if he ever left England. We don't know who his principal companions were or how he amused himself. His sexuality is an irreconcilable mystery. On only a handful of days in his life can we say with absolute certainty where he was.
Bill Bryson
#36. Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will
my soul do thy lord?
Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom.
Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus?
Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.
(It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery)
Christopher Marlowe
#37. I thanked God for having led me through the labyrinth of darkness to the only point at which the voices of my companions could reach me. (p. 122)
Jules Verne
#38. We know that we are often judged by the company we keep. We know how influential classmates, friends, and other peer groups can be. If any of our companions are prone to be unrighteous in their living, we are better off seeking new associations immediately.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#39. P56-his reason told him that he was of a different race from his wild and hairy companions
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#41. He is a gay man, my dear, to say no more; and such are the companions we wish when we join a party avowedly formed for pleasure.
Hannah Webster Foster
#42. The terms 'Husband' and 'Wife' are inappropriate. They are only companions ad partners. One does not slave for other. They both have equal status.
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
#43. I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals, food fantasies, nocturnal emissions, hobbies, choice of radio program, changes in out look and so forth.
Vladimir Nabokov
#44. Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon
#45. It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#46. In torment, there was release.
In the darkness, there was light.
In solitude, there were companions.
C.C. Humphreys
#47. And doubts regarding how high the price might prove. But this is our way. This is our creed. This is the mantra of the Companions of the Hall. It can be no other way. And since we knew our course to be true, doubts could not equal regret. No matter the price. - Drizzt Do'Urden
R.A. Salvatore
#48. He remembers the five rules of combat set down by Chuan Tzu - faith, companions, time, space and strategy.
Paulo Coelho
#49. It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces.
Frans De Waal
#50. Talent and generosity are needed to recognize talent and generosity in our companions; all is discord to an ear that has no idea of harmonies, but it needs a musical ear to delight in music.
Julia McNair Wright
#51. Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
George Henry Lewes
#53. Toklo raked his companions with a hard glance. "Don't risk your own safety."
"I bet you'll risk yours," Lusa said, aware once again of how deeply she trusted this bear.
"That's what I'm here for," Toklo retorted.
Erin Hunter
#54. For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.
Mahatma Gandhi
#55. My captain once said that you meet people in your life who you believe will be your companions on the road, only to discover that they fall by the wayside. Others who you meet without design climb mountains with you,
Sally Gardner
#56. Helpful Reminders for Fathers and Other Birth Companions
Pam England
#58. Judged by the evolving nineteenth-century ideology of femininity, which emphasized women's roles as nurturing mothers and gentle companions and housekeepers for their husbands, Black women were practically anomalies. Though
Angela Y. Davis
#59. People will not be bored. They may listen politely at a dinner table to boasts and personalities, life history, etc. But in print they choose their own companions, their own subjects. They was to be amused or benefitted
Claude C. Hopkins
#60. A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#61. Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
Francesco Guicciardini
#62. That is the lightest coffin I have ever carried," observed one of Romeo's companions. "Your [bell]ringer must have been a very slender man, Friar Lorenzo. Make sure to choose a fat one next time that he may stand more firmly in that windy bell tower.
Anne Fortier
#63. War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.
Benjamin Tucker
#64. My dogs have been my most loyal friends and constant companions.
Cesar Millan
#65. Was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and so my companions
Daniel Defoe
#66. As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey.
Sidney Poitier
#67. Punctuality or the lack thereof oftentimes is the only introduction one will ever have to new groups and friends. Serenity and poise are not the companions of those who lack the courtesy and judgment to be on time.
Marvin J. Ashton
#68. The creature took off with its companions - its pack. "So this is what the Reod did," Hrathen mused to himself. "It made beasts out of gods.
Brandon Sanderson
#69. I feel like one of God's chosen people, having had the opportunity to share, with many fine companions, these varied and lovely realms of our natural world.
Fred Bear
#70. There was a curious affinity between man and dog. Both were untamed, both were creatures born and bred to fight, honed and tempered fine by hot winds and long desert stretches, untrusting, dangerous, yet good companions in a hard land.
Louis L'Amour
#71. Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother's elder brother.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#72. Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.
Agatha Christie
#73. The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.
Henry David Thoreau
#74. The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.
Washington Irving
#75. Then Arjuma saw in both armies fathers, grandfathers, sons, grandsons; fathers of wives, uncles, masters; brothers companions and friends ... When Arjuna thus saw his kinsmen face to face in both lines of battle, he was overcome by grief and despair and thus he spoke with a sinking heart.
Juan Mascaro
#76. We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.
Thomas Jefferson
#77. As one of my early A.A. sponsors used to say, I didn't hang out with lower companions - I had become one.
Alcoholics Anonymous
#78. While tentbound high on Everest, Mallory and his companions would read aloud to one another from Hamlet and King Lear
Jon Krakauer
#79. I've had many companions, girls as young as you and women who were the beauties of Europe. But you're the one I want at my side. Ruling, taking what we want when we want it. Feared and worshipped by all the weaker souls. Would that be so bad?
L.J.Smith
#80. With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
Charles Caleb Colton
#81. The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,
for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?
Samuel Johnson
#83. Animal companions come into your life for an infinite number of reasons, each one being in service to you, your current life experience, and moreover, your soul's growth and evolution.
Amy Miller
#84. Here I am, a wild beast cut off from his companions.
Chairil Anwar
#85. The romantic chivalric tradition takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man's eye off women as they are, as companions in shipwreck not guiding stars.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#86. And if you cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and precursors of such saints.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#87. One of those poor fellows that had become a Christian was badgered by his companions; and one of them said, "How do you know that Jesus Christ has forgiven your sins? " The man turned at once and said, "How do you know when you have got sugar in your tea?
John Bartholomew Gough
#88. When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I was absolutely passionate about it and felt those paintings and those painters, whether they lived a few hundred years ago or were still alive, were somehow my companions.
John Berger
#90. Much certainly of the happiness and purity of our lives depends on our making a wise choice of our companions and friends. If our friends are badly chosen they will inevitably drag us down; if well they will raise us up.
Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury
#91. Each year, more responsibility and freedom (they are companions) must be given to the child so that the final release in early adulthood is merely a small, final release of authority.
James C. Dobson
#92. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.
James Madison
#93. Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#94. Muhammad particularly loved cats, but, more generally, he constantly made his Companions aware of the need to respect all animal species. He
Tariq Ramadan
#95. Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness.
Yann Martel
#96. Companions are we, enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide.
Bradley Chicho
#97. I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.
Adolf Hitler
#98. The Master said, "To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned - is this not satisfying? To have companions arrive from afar - is this not a joy? To remain unrecognized by others and yet remain free of resentment - is this not the mark of the gentleman?"
(Analects 1.1)
Confucius
#99. Far from being the father of jihad, [Prophet] Mohammad was a peacemaker, who risked his life and nearly lost the loyalty of his closest companions because he was determined to effect a reconciliation with Mecca
Karen Armstrong
#100. How do you explain to a nonreader that books aren't just things but treasured friends? Companions?
Laura Jensen Walker
