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304 Companions quotes by 240 unique authors

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. — William Butler Yeats
It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender… — Frans de Waal
When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that all is a… — Nikos Kazantzakis
Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. — Christopher Paolini
She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends. — Willa Cather
Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone. — Lance Armstrong
And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their… — Haruki Murakami
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself. — Emily Dickinson
I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions. — Diane Setterfield
Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions? — Linda Sue Park
It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only… — Robert Green Ingersoll
To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please. — Richard Baxter
We killed you and it was not new for us, we killed the companions of the Prophet and the friends of God. O how many… — Nizar Qabbani
As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their… — Sidney Poitier
We keep each other alive with our stories. We need to share them, as much as we need to share food. We also require for… — Barry Lopez
I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal companions. Yet I… — Gustave Flaubert
Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse… — Betty MacDonald
Beauty and fear make uneasy companions — Cornelia Funke
Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learn about great food by finding the best there… — Julia Child
I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of… — Henry Miller
For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon… — Patti Smith
Under the plan of heaven, the husband and the wife walk side by side as companions, neither one ahead of the other, but a daughter… — Gordon B. Hinckley

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