Quotes About Companions

Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.

Os livros e os amigos são os companheiros espirituais da juventude.

Dogs that were most attentive to the needs and feelings of their human companions got extra care and food, and were more likely to survive.

Cookies, a dragon dog, and a sword: what every well-equipped little girl takes on a journey.

And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

When I lost the use of my Eyes it was a comfort to think there were so few real books that I could easily find some one to read me all of them.

One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one finds new beauties at every interview, and would stay long in the presence of those choice companions. As with friends, he may dispense with a wide acquaintance. Few and choice. The richest minds need not large libraries.

On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.

the idea of being aware of whom you spend your time with and who your teachers are is a very important consideration.

Boys were to her, when she thought about them at all, merely possible good comrades.

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.

books everywhere piled up in heaps, the rare companions of a solitude not self-imposed but sought.

Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.

There is a lack of tact in people who their conversation look not to please others, but to elucidate, egotistically, points that they are interested in.' Conversation requires an abdication of oneself in the name of pleasing companions: 'When we speak, it is no longer we who speak...we are fashioning ourselves then in the likeness of other people, and not of a self that differs from them.

Not thou alone, but all humanity doth in its progress fable emulate. Whence came thy rocket-ships and submarine if not from Nautilus, from Cavorite? Your trustiest companions since the cave, we apparitions guided mankind's tread, our planet, unseen counterpart to thine, as permanent, as ven'rable, as true. On dream's foundation matter's mudyards rest. Two sketching hands, each one the other draws: the fantasies thou've fashioned fashion thee.

I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.

I travel in so many different ways I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with.

The cynical ones are the best companions. But the best of all are the cynical ones when they are still devout; or after; when having been devout, then cynical, they become devout again by cynicism.

The company of their own sex, Edith reflected, was what drove many women into marriage.

I've always had loads of teddy bears.

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.

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 ambition is to obey.