Best Companion Proverbs
689 Companion quotes by 497 unique authors
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Seek worthy companions. Attend church faithfully. Never fail daily to seek for help through prayer. And I promise you that the way will be easier…
— Boyd K. Packer
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Man no longer dreams over a book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs with him through the pangs of…
— Loren Eiseley
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Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home,…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Saint Paul asks his disciple Timothy to "aim at faith" (2 Tim 2:22) with the same constancy as when he was a boy (cf. 2…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is that marriage is…
— Robert Fulghum
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The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance - they…
— Curt Sachs
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I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.
— Rumi
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You do not have to marry in order not to be alone- all you need not to be alone is to have some other humans…
— Myles Munroe
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It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the…
— Henry Walter Bates
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If you cannot be merciful, at least speak as though you are a sinner. If you are not a peacemaker, at least do not be…
— Dorotheus of Gaza
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We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real…
— Edward Burnett Tylor
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The purified, integrated mind, so perfected in its own understanding, lives in close communion with the soul radiance so that light becomes the constant companion…
— Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
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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…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects…
— Louis L'Amour
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Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors…
— Benjamin Franklin
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To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief
— Marcus Aurelius
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We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Creation happens to us, burns into us, changes us, we tremble and swoon, we submit. Creation - we participate in it, we encounter the creator,…
— Martin Buber
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It was like a death in the family: You go through the mourning stage, then the rebellion, and then all of a sudden you have…
— Jessica Simpson
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There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections…
— Sir Fulke Greville
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I certainly believe that we have a moral obligation to care for the dogs, cats, and other nonhumans whose existence we have caused or facilitated…
— Gary L. Francione
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I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.
— Gary L. Francione
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Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history. It is the companion that dogs our every step.
— Unknown Author
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Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may…
— Chanakya
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