Quotes About Companionship

I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.

A good-humored wife who appreciates most, if not all, of my humor - her price is far above rubies, as the book of Proverbs doesn't quite say.

Prosperity is full of friends.

Every man is like the company he wont to keep.

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

If women didn't exist, human life would be rid of all its miseries.

Of people my own age, friends and relatives, you are my favorite. You're all those things to me

We all have personal favorites, whether we choose a god or a friend.

He's alone, You're alone, that's more than enough to have in common. What else do you want?

Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.

He's my buddy," she said, then patted my hand. "And he's faithful." Patsy opened the door to her home and shuffled in. "Like the Lord.

The Second World War wasn't bad provided you were with nice people.

He was like a friend made on board ship, on the high seas; now we had come to his home port.

It was his misfortune to be respected as a writer by almost everyone except those with whom he most consorted.

When it was done, Guy studied himself once more in the glass and recognized an old acquaintance he could never cut, to whom he could never hope to give the slip for long, the uncongenial fellow traveler who would accompany him through life.

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

I wish I had done everything on earth with you

Dick walked beside her, feeling her unhappiness, and wanting to drink the rain that touched her cheek.

I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe - and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall.

Thirty - the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single people to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. But there was Jordan beside me, who, unlike Daisy, was too wise ever to carry well-forgotten dreams from age to age. As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people.

New friends," he said, as if it were an important point, "can often have a better time together than old friends." With