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Quotes About Companionship

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up
~ Bible
The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
~ Charles Lamb
Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
~ Eric Hoffer
The only ship that never sinks is a true friendship
~ Unknown
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.
~ Unknown
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
~ Unknown
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.
~ Gelett (Frank) Burgess
Indeed, we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world.
~ Charles Hanson Towne
I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world --not much remembered when the ball is over.
~ Lord Byron
We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Her companionship was like a warm soil about an exotic.
~ James Joyce
In a friend you find a second self.
~ Unknown
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
~ David Tyson Gentry
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
~ Charles R Swindoll
Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.
~ Unknown
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The endearing elegance of female friendship.
~ Samuel Johnson
One does not make friends. One recognizes them.
~ Garth Henrichs
Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.
~ Unknown
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.
~ Unknown