Companions Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

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

It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.

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.

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.

Medicine and writing are natural companions.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

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.

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

People always joke that "dog" spells "god" backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

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

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

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