Quotes About Companion

Cat a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

People also talk of a criminal consciousness All my life in this world of human beings I have been tortured by such a consciousness, but it has been my faithful companion, like a wife in poverty, and together, just the two of us, we have indulged in our forlorn pleasures.

My wife] called, "Pochi, Pochi, your supper's ready," and laughed as she said, "You may have a personality disorder." A disgusting thought came to mind, "They say that the dog comes to resemble its owner.

she was very liberal in her range of literature. All languages being equally intelligible to us (though we can never comprehend why you have not all one and the same, as we superior animals have), I derived considerable entertainment from hearing the innumerable works, in various tongues, which her companion read aloud to her almost from morning to night.

A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.

I still don't see how it would make me feel any better to think of the pain in my hip and spine as anything other than my most loyal and valuable companion, the continuous nonvoice in my ear that says, You got out alive and you still get to go.

La angustia es una compañera tan antigua. Quizá no sea la compañera más agradable del mundo, pero es una buena consejera.

Humankind is drawn to dogs because they are so like ourselves—bumbling, affectionate, confused, easily disappointed, eager to be amused, grateful for kindness and the least attention.

He laughed as he bled down his shirt, and I babbled apologies. He let his head fall back against the truck door with a thump. "Leave off, Mercy. It'll close up quick enough on its own." I backed up until I was sitting beside him—half-laughing myself, because although it probably hurt quite a bit, he was right that his injury would heal in a few minutes. It was minor, and

Because of sorrow, my awareness of life's pulse is strongly detectable. It is syncopation while I journey, a lap of ocean in the eyes of every person I meet. This awareness informs the flesh of my stories. Grief has been an odd companion, at first a terror, but now I am all the better having accepted it for its intrinsic worth.

Excellence is excellence's only companion.

Asking to hold a musician's instrument is roughly similar to asking to kiss a man's wife. Nonmusicians don't understand. An instrument is like a companion and a lover.

Pedirle a un músico que te deje coger su instrumento es como pedirle a un hombre que te deje besar a su esposa. Eso es algo que solo entiendes si eres músico. Un instrumento es como un compañero y una amante. Los desconocidos suelen pedir a los músicos que les dejen coger sus instrumentos, y eso les fastidia mucho.

Hope comes as a companion; she slips her arm around your shoulder and offers to help you stumble toward change

Something was wrong, and while Mr. Bones could scarcely imagine what that thing was, Henry's sadness was beginning to have an effect on him, and within a matter of minutes he had taken on the boy's sadness as his own. Such is the was with dogs.

wandering is intimacy's helpmate.

Joubert (1801): «Solo debes elegir por esposa a la mujer que escogerías como amigo, si fuera hombre».

I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.

If you'll be my bodyguardI can be your long lost pal,I can call you Bettyand, Betty, when you call meYou can call me Al.

An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.

Some women run with wolves, but the majority would be much happier with your basic lap dog.

Human emotional attachment can make animal companions cling to a torturous existence when they would normally prepare themselves for their transitions peacefully.

We all have friends we love dearly that couldn't pass for human in a strict Turing test.

Basil was happy to have me home. He considered the manner in which I ignored him a kind of attention. He and I were not so different.