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Quotes About Companionship

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
~ Hesiod
There is no secret closer than what passes between a man and his horse
~ Robert Smith Surtees
Marry a man / woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
~ Tony Robbins
It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.
~ Charles Darwin
The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.
~ Charles Henry Parkhurst
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
A man is known by the company he keeps
~ Aesop
It's a long day's drive any way you look at it. With a man who has taken your sins - real and imagined - and stitched them onto the sackcloth of his own soul, it is endless.
~ Alexandra Fuller
Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.
~ Anais Nin
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
Men aren't necessities, they're luxuries.
~ Cher
A man, well, he'll walk right into Hell with both eyes open. But even the devil can't fool a dog.
~ Earl Hamner, Jr.
Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
~ Ellen Glasgow
As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.
~ George Santayana
No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.
~ Henry Fielding
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
~ Tennessee Williams
Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.
~ Terence
Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.
~ Terence
Once, when she was travelling to one of her convents, St. Teresa of Ávila was knocked off her donkey and fell into the mud, injuring her leg. "Lord," she said, "you couldn't have picked a worse time for this to happen. Why would you let this happen?" And the response in prayer that she heard was, "That is how I treat my friends." Teresa answered, "And that is why you have so few of them!
~ Teresa of Avila
But to get to know God's friends is a very good way of "having" Him;
~ Teresa of Avila
If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.
~ Teresa of Avila