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Companions Quotes by William S. Burroughs
- 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…
- Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing…
More Companions Quotes
- Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. — Francis Bacon
- Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never… — Francis Beaumont
- True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation… — Joseph Addison
- There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the… — Buffalo Bill
- People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see… — Linda Blair
- Much certainly of the happiness and purity of our lives depends on our making a wise choice of our companions and friends.… — Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury
- War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions. — Benjamin Tucker
- In everything that moves through the universe, I see my own body, and in everything that governs the universe, my own soul.… — Zhang Zai
- When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to sink, what… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
- Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair. — Dean Koontz
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step… — Henry David Thoreau