Companions Quotes

Beauty and folly are old companions.

It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.

Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.

I employ 20 people in Vienna. The other 130 coworkers are pilots and flight companions. The Overhead is limited with me. Reduces naturally the costs of my fliers.

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

My ideal travel companions are my family.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Companions are we, enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide.

There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions.

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

My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits.

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe.