A companion that feasts the company with and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I… — Jan Smuts Copy Share Image
We killed you and it was not new for us, we killed the companions of the Prophet and the friends of God.… — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would… — Robert Falcon Scott Copy Share Image
You ask me how, with so much study, I manage to retene my health. Morpheus is my last companion; without 8 or… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Far from being the father of jihad, [Prophet] Mohammad was a peacemaker, who risked his life and nearly lost the loyalty of… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
He that loves a book will never want a [close] friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study,… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
The idea of having more technology solving this idea of hyperactive lifestyle is not really the mainstream problem. I think the real… — Horace Dediu Copy Share Image
In a true community we will not choose our companions, for our choices are so often limited by self-serving motives. Instead, our… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
It just kills me when people buy a dog when there are dogs in shelters. I still get emotional when I think… — Bob Harper Copy Share Image
Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Watch your dreams and watch our friends. Take time and watch your friend again with sharpened eyes. Turn on your dreams again;… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
Do you know what ‘Sputnik’ means in Russian? ‘Travelling companion’. I looked it up in a dictionary not long ago. Kind of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The famous Apollonius being very early at Vespasian's gate, and finding him stirring, from thence conjectured that he was worthy to govern… — Nicolas Caussin Copy Share Image
“Clare is good, spiky company, and she is the very best companion to have in a bad situation. Trouble brings out the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I think every person who is single should have a dog. I think the government should step in and intervene: If you're… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Metellus Numidicus, the censor, acknowledged to the Roman people, in a public oration, that had kind nature allowed us to exist without… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the… — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Spread your courtesy across the door posts of everyone you know, but reserve your intimacy with the little trustworthy friends who are… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, 'tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
But that guitar is the perfect companion to the human voice. You rest it against your gut, against your heart, and when… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a 'New York Times' crossword puzzle and a new episode of 'Homicide;'… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in… — Bettina Skrzypczak Copy Share Image
No companion however wise, no friend however useful, can be to me what my mother has been: her image will long pursue… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There are always risks in battle. It's a dangerous business. The trick is to take the right ones.' [said Halt]. 'How do… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image