Companion Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Companion Fancy Guides May Reason
In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Valued companionships begin with a personal commitment to be an exemplary companion. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
We need to take account-ABILITY for who we let into our lives. Be the best you, to attract the best companion. Some of us… — Paige Diamond Copy Share Image
It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
No companion however wise, no friend however useful, can be to me what my mother has been: her image will long pursue my fancy;… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady. To be strange and familiar all at once, with enough change to quicken my mind, enough steadiness to give sanctuary to my heart. The books on my shelf never asked to come together, and they would not trust or want to listen to one… — Pico Iyer Copy Share
A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Worthy books Are not companions – they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
Well, people can get advice almost anywhere, but they can't find a companion almost anywhere. And far more than being an advice-giver or somebody… — Delilah Copy Share Image
When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion. — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful concepts, one which is a sure cure for lack of confidence, is the thought that God is with you and helping you. This is one of the simplest teachings in religion, namely, that Almighty God will be your companion, will stand by you, help you, and see you through. No other idea is so powerful… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share
I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I the stupidity… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance -… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
True, the fragile bodies of his fellows do not weigh down his plane; true, the fretful minds of weaker men are missing from his crowded cabin; but as his airship keeps its course he holds communion with those rare spirits that inspire to intrepidity and by their sustaining potency give strength to arm, resource to mind, content to soul. Alone?… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share
God is our portion, Christ our companion, the Spirit our Comforter, Earth our lodge, and Heaven is our home. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Those who grieve frequently find themselves alone. Missed is the laughter of children, the commotion of teenagers, and the tender, loving concern of a departed companion. The clock ticks more loudly, time passes more slowly, and four walls can indeed a prison make. I extol those who, with loving care and compassionate concern, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share