A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers. — Irving Bacheller Copy Share Image
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Muslims (companions) misunderstood the speech of the Prophet on the day of Ghadeer. — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Copy Share Image
The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
My own particular feline companion answers, or rather doesn't answer, to Cinnamon. One of my kids must have given her the name,… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Even for charity I always give priority to education because I always teach young people - knowledge is your real companion, your… — Stanley Ho Copy Share Image
How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other! — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses -… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a… — Brannon Braga Copy Share Image
The night is my companion...solitude my guide…and I would be the one to hold you down, kiss you so hard, I'll take… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
Seek worthy companions. Attend church faithfully. Never fail daily to seek for help through prayer. And I promise you that the way… — Boyd K. Packer 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
People will not be bored. They may listen politely at a dinner table to boasts and personalities, life history, etc. But in… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
There're going to be animals in God's Heaven on Earth, a New Heaven and a New Earth! God's not going to have… — David Berg Copy Share Image
Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto… — Mary Cantwell Copy Share Image
I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Though I be shut in darkness, and become insentient dust blown idly here and there, I count oblivion a scant price to… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
I am pleased as punch no longer to believe in a god who declares reason a sin, who will not choose many… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
In today's world parents find themselves at the mercy of a society which imposes pressures and priorities that allow neither timenor place… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
Slender Youth. A tour companion who may be either a lost prince or a girl/princess in disguise. In the latter case it… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense?… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Their women are of surpassing beauty, and are shown more respect than the men. These people are Muslims, punctilious in observing the… — Ibn Battuta Copy Share Image
My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
