Top 433 Companions Quotes & Sayings

Parents are one's companions in life but not partakers of one's karma.

Regret is the most tiresome of companions.

I found a lot of comfort in the fact that 30-odd people have been companions before me. I think that when there are so many people contributing so many things to the show, all you can do is make it your own. You can't try to emulate anyone, because who would you pick? The companions are very much the everyman, and the audience watches the story through their eyes, so they could be the person next door. And everybody's different.

Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.

It brings comfort to have companions in whatever happens.

In Judith Barrington's striking collection, Horses and the Human Soul, human emotions come ushered and accompanied by animal companions, especially the horses this speaker loves. Here they are witnesses, companions to the spirit, and as vulnerably mortal as human beings. Socially and politically alert, lamenting and celebrating, Barrington's passionate poems inscribe the broad range of her affections.

Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life.

My ideal travel companions are my surfboard, wetsuit, and guitar.

We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.

. . . companions were to be valued, wherever one found them.

It's not the breed that makes a good companion. All dogs are great companions.

A glorious life is filled with companions who have open hearts.

Remember, you have no companions but your shadow

Dignity and love were never yet boon companions.

Even if it is painful and lonely, associate with worthy companions.

Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing.

These books are my friends, my companions.

Beauty and fear make uneasy companions

Repression and intimidation are not - and never should be - the acceptable companions of reform.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books are as scarce as good companions...

It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it. War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions. It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.

The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.

It is easier when you like to work with your companions.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique.

Dolls are safe companions.

Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

Beauty and folly are generally companions.

Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Hymns are companions for life travelers.

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.

Wicked companions invite us to hell.

Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.

Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.

My dogs have been my most loyal friends and constant companions.

The warrior of the Light sits around a fire with his companions.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.

These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me the strength to continue against any foe, real or imagined. These were the companions who fought the helplessness, the rage, and frustration. These were the friends who gave me my life.

Ignorance and confidence are constant companions

Fly from bad companions as from the bite of a poisonous snake.

Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.

My own thoughts Are my companions.

Throughout my life, I happily deferred to family, companions, children.

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

My ideal travel companions are my family.

Medicine and writing are natural companions.

Muslims (companions) misunderstood the speech of the Prophet on the day of Ghadeer.

The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.

In a true community we will not choose our companions, for our choices are so often limited by self-serving motives. Instead, our companions will be given to us by grace. Often they will be persons who will upset our settled view of self and world. In fact, we might define true community as the place where the person you least want to live with always lives

There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.

Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.

Here I am, a wild beast cut off from his companions.