Quotes About Companionship

Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are.

The person who has no enemies also has no friends

The wolf told the dog: It does not matter that I run and you follow me, what matters is that when I turn around you will be next to me.

Yellow gold is plentiful compared to white-haired friends.

Friends share all things.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Maybe that was their magic. Having fun and enjoying one another's company. Being lifted up even when you were being beaten down.

The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

I don't have any pets. I've got enough dumb friends without them.

Alan Loy McGinnis, author of the best-selling The Friendship Factor, says that America's leading psychologists and therapists estimate that only 10 percent of all men ever have any real friends.2

I have found it is surprisingly difficult to remain sad when a cat is doing its level best to sandpaper one's cheeks.

I'm so tired of being lonely,she thought. In so tired of never going out, of never being with a boy,off never having a boy care about me.

Good dog,' she said, stoking his head. 'Good sweet dog.' That was one of the great things about dogs. They always loved you no matter what was going on.

Even intelligent and wise men are ruined after some time, if they remain in the company of immoral, sinful, wicked or cruel-natured persons. Such persons are like a coal mine where everything turns black. You must avoid friendship with such persons. In Chanakya's opinion, only the intelligent and wise person will suffer in such a relationship.

By preaching foolish pupils, looking after a wicked woman or keeping company of worried persons, even scholars will suffer. Therefore, foolish persons should never be encouraged to undertake any good deed. One must stay away from a characterless woman, otherwise his image will be tarnished. Similarly, an unhappy person can never give happiness, so stay away from him.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable." Louisa May Alcott

I'll admit that I'm not fond of children. They stick to you like burrs, and tearing them off is cumbersome. I don't dislike them. I simply prefer them not to be around.

God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

I came out alone on my way to my tryst. But who is this that follows me in the silent dark? I move aside to avoid his presence but I escape him not. He makes the dust rise from the earth with his swagger; he adds his loud voice to every word that I utter. He is my own little self, my lord, he knows no shame; but I am ashamed to come to thy door in his company.

Here is thy footstool and there rest thy feet where live the poorest, and lowliest, and lost. When I try to bow to thee, my obeisance cannot reach down to the depth where thy feet rest among the poorest, and lowliest, and lost. Pride can never approach to where thou walkest in the clothes of the humble among the poorest, and lowliest, and lost. My heart can never find its way to where thou keepest company with the companionless among the poorest, the lowliest, and the lost.

Even he whose near ones have all died, one by one, is not alone-companionship comes for him from behind the screen of death.

The absence of human company and affection seemed to choke his heart.

Though I have a sense of achievement while I am in your company, I have nothing to cling to when I move away.

I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.