Quotes About Companionship

Results for "Getting a dog is like getting married. It teaches you to be less self-centered, to accept sudden, surprising outbursts of affection, and not to be upset by a few scratches on your car.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

We are social creatures; we will be miserable if we try to cut off contact with other people. Therefore, if what we seek is tranquility, we should form and maintain relations with others. In doing so, though, we should be careful about whom we befriend. We should also, to the extent possible, avoid people whose values are corrupt, for fear that their values will contaminate ours. •

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

The advantage of being married a long time was that one could argue without the necessity of the other's actual, physical presence.

Unwearied still, lover by lover,They paddle in the coldCompanionable streams or climb the air;Their hearts have not grown old.

We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with.

And say my glory was I had such friends.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends And say my glory was I had such friends.

I've had friends that couldn't be my lover. I've had lovers who couldn't be my friend. I can't wait for the day I find the person that is both.

I praise the Frenchman [La Bruyère], his remark was shrewd—How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!But grant me still a friend in my retreatWhom I may whisper—solitude is sweet.

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper, Solitude is sweet.

two men usually filled and left plenty of room on either side.

Is it thy head is weak—thy judgment I mean? watch thyself, and come not among those that drink no wine but that which thy weak parts cannot bear —seraphic notions and high-flown opinions—and do not think thyself much wronged to be forbidden their cup.

It was a sweet speech of a dying saint, 'That he was going to change his place but not his company.

A friend for adversity is as proper as fire is for a winter's day.

Who hath a better friend than a cat?

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress -- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

He nodded, sagely, at the lot of us, and yawned; then glanced at the clock. "Out you go!" he said, in friendly fashion, using the recognised formula. "I want a sleep." We rose, shook him by the hand, and went out presently into the night and the quiet of the Embankment; and so to our homes.

Still, I have felt it better to have a dog about the place. They are wonderful creatures.