Companion Quotes

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.

I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others.

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

But that guitar is the perfect companion to the human voice. You rest it against your gut, against your heart, and when you strum it the vibrations go outwards for all to hear, but the vibration also hits you on your body.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

Never make a companion equal to a brother.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens.

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.