companionship quotes

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

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.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I’d like to spend more time with her.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

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.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Your friend is your needs answered.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.

My friends are my estate.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

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.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

When I was a child, there’s one thing I said: ‚I never want to be alone.‘ That’s what I would say. I don’t want to be alone.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

I don’t like being alone.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

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

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.