Those who have never despaired have neither lived nor loved. Hope is inseparable from despair. Those of us who truly hope make… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Whatever will happen will happen, but choose your companions with care. Choose them because you like to look at them and you… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself. — Aesop Copy Share Image
“It is unpredictable for you to know which of the strangers you are about to meet that becomes your friend. Be polite… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The place that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the,… — John William Fletcher Copy Share Image
Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens. — Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon Copy Share Image
Some of your best songs come from a desperate attempt to escape, so sitting in an airport for hours I can just… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
You'll enjoy it. There is much you can learn from books and scrolls," said Jeod. He gestured at the walls. "These books… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
I certainly believe we all suffer damage, one way or another. How could we not,except in a world of perfect parents, siblings,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Men are four; He who knows and knows not that he knows. He is asleep; wake him. He who knows not and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
The people of your world became so stupid and rude that my companions and I no longer enjoyed teaching them. You must… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
“Before someone will get the guts to monitor your life, he must get the keyboard of humility. To be a humble person,… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
The Holy Ghost is a comforter and a guide. But it is also a cleansing agent. That is why service in the… — Henry B. Eyring 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
I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself anylonger for you, or you. If you can love… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“The main reason why your company can easily influence you is because "emotion and attitude are stronger than knowledge". What you see… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready… — John Clare Copy Share Image