Best Companion Quotes
689 Companion quotes by 497 unique authors
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Loving yourself...does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your own heart,…
— Margot Anand
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We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.
— Susan Jeffers
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A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent, the…
— Thomas Adams
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Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their…
— Otto von Bismarck
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Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its rights. It considers…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I am happy now, to recall that I was not only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any…
— John Philip Sousa
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The rotten apple spoils his companion.
— Benjamin Franklin
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[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.
— Theophile Gautier
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Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as…
— William S. Burroughs
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The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity…
— John Jay Chapman
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Lord Jesus, Who in the Eucharist make your dwelling among us and become our traveling companion, sustain our Christian communities so that they may be…
— Pope John Paul II
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A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
— William Hazlitt
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I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap…
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul.
— Luis Bunuel
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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean,…
— Orison Swett Marden
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A merry companion is as good as a wagon.
— John Lyly
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
— Isaac D'Israeli
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On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.
— Rumi
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While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent…
— Shimon Peres
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It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects…
— Blaise Pascal
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