Quotes About Companions

Cats. You can't live with them, and the fur's too thin for a rug.

With what characters she had filled this lost stage of emptiness! It was here that she would see the people of her imagination, the fierce figures of her making, as they strolled from corner to corner, brooded like monsters or flew through the air like seraphs with burning wings, or danced, or fought, or laughed, or cried. This was her attic of make-believe, where she would watch her mind's companions advancing or retreating across the dusty floor.

When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory; the most time is spent in conversation.

Nobody suggested that it was my moral duty to visit my husband. Nobody talked about my moral responsibilities as a wife. But Val kept in touch with the doctors at the hospital, Nicholas kept in touch with the senior chaplain there, and now Lewis was talking of keeping in touch with Kim himself. The more I tried to escape from the reality of my shattered marriage, the more my new companions seemed to be quietly drawing my attention back to the husband I was unable to confront.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

The clouds floating white and restless in the sky were those you see only in May or June. They were innocent companions, still young and flighty, who ran playfully across the blue road to hide suddenly behind high mountains, linking arms and running away, sometimes crumpling up like handkerchiefs, sometimes unravelling into streamers, and eventually playing a practical joke by setting themselves down on the mountain like white caps.

Gratitude and sadness were strange but familiar companions.

Over the years I'd surrendered many vices, among them whiskey, cigarettes, and the various non-Newtonian drugs, but marijuana and I remained steadfast companions.

Someone's war was slashing apart his delicate tapestry of companions. I was Odysseus, I understood the shifting and temporary vetoes of war. But he was a man who made friends with difficulty. He was a man who knew two or three people in his life, and they had turned out now to be the enemy.

I used to have two brown-coloured cats, who were brother and sister, called Bonzo and Bonzetta.

I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.

I had a shih tzu dog for 12 years - we were different in size but he was certainly man's best friend, he was my little guy.

In an age where the lowered eyelid is just a sign of fatigue, the delicate game of love is pining away. Freud and flirtation are poor companions.

I am glad you found your way in here, for I am sure there is much that will interest you. These companions, and he laid his hand on some of the books, have been good friends to me and for some years past, ever since I had the good idea of going to London, have given me many, many hours of pleasure.

Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no.

Leopardo, striving very hard to pick fights with all his companions and unable to do so-for they were canny and fearful, and knew him in a most hazardous mood-as each eluded him grew more prone to aggression.

All his many nights at sea, the stars had been his most loyal companions. He preferred them to the moon, which seemed to him too frank, always begging to be noticed; the stars maintained a certain cagey distance, permitting the mystery of their hidden selves to breathe.

Faith without works is like a bird without wings though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.

Más vale ser un animal de un compañia que un animal para carne.

I also have two dogs, a Chihuahua and a Yorkshire terrier, so if they like him, that's a good sign.

One of the things the 'Tao of Travel' shows is how unforthcoming most travel writers are, how most travelers are. They don't tell you who they were traveling with, and they're not very reliable about things that happened to them.

I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.