Companionable Quotes
18 quotes by 13 authors
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A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its own; and it…
— Henry Van Dyke
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With relish, Thomas More thus sketches Richard's character: He was close and secret, a deep dissembler, lowly of countenance, arrogant of heart, outwardly companionable where…
— Richard III of England
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A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in…
— P.D. James
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Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.
— Mark Doty
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Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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A Hamburger is warm and fragrant and juicy. A hamburger is soft and nonthreatening. It personifies the Great Mother herself who has nourished us from…
— Tom Robbins
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Editing is the most companionable form of education.
— Ed Weeks
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Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels.
— John Muir
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I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
— Henry David Thoreau
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I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among…
— Henry David Thoreau
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In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ...…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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More poignant for us, at Laetoli in Tanzania are the companionable footprints of three real hominids, probably Australopithecus afarensis, walking together 3.6 million years ago…
— Richard Dawkins
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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When Ronan thought of Gansey, he thought of moving into Monmouth Manufacturing, of nights spent in companionable insomnia, of a summer searching for a king,…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
— Henry David Thoreau
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I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude
— Henry David Thoreau
Who Wrote These Companionable Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 18 Companionable Quotes as follows: