Quotes About Companionship

One day, supposedly, a Kind Friend could give them what they needed, and clean up after, and possibly even flush the shame from their systems as well. But for the time being they still had to endure the company of other fleshy need machines, human spouters and little bags of weepery.

I mean we desperately wanted to be in love with something or other. We were lonely people. It seemed more sensible to fall in love with another person who also wanted to fall in love, than to love a chair or a cat or an idea.

and I sat at his side.

sometimes vacation together.

and we considered them friends.

Our two dogs, Scamper (an ancient beagle-basset) and Tinker (a small, friendly dog of indeterminate breed), provided some diversion.

sat to my left.

If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.

Heaven has the better climate, but hell has the better company.

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

Burdening is the one who takes away our solitude but does not give us company.

Soy ciego, sí, señor—añadió el joven—; pero sin vista sé recorrer de un cabo a otro las minas de Socartes. El palo que uso me impide tropezar, y Choto me acompaña, cuando no lo hace la Nela, que es mi lazarillo. Con que sígame usted y déjese llevar.

There's always somebody," she said simply.

Books are companions even if you don't open them.

Anger and folly walk cheek by jole.

After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather.

There are three great friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.

He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.

The rotten apple spoils his companions.

He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.

He who drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.

Lie down with dogs and you get up with fleas. One of the main characters in 'Nothing is Lost' says that. She probably didn't know that the source was Benjamin Franklin.