Companions Quotes

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.

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

My ideal travel companions are my family.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

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

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

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.

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

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.

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.

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.

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.

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.