Companion Quotes

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
Thomas Jefferson

Nature, Strong, Character

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I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau

Solitude, Found

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
Dalai Lama

Life, Good, Food

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau

Love, Alone, Solitude

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.
Henry David Thoreau

Men, Alone, Lonely

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.
Erma Bombeck

Time, Home, Wedding

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine

Patience, Wisdom

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
Baltasar Gracian

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Coco Chanel

Death, Guilt, Painful

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

Good, Society, Mean

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.
Gary Busey

Dark, Kids, Room

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
Charles Dickens

Yourself, Him, Takes

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.
William Penn

Beauty, Marriage, Money

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

Her, She, Virtue

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

Time, Truth, Enemy

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Leadership, Great, Sad

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

Life, Evening, Different

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.
Thomas S. Monson

Life, Work, Children

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Charles Caleb Colton

Wisdom, Genius, Moderation

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

God, Alone, Him

I just love dogs, and there really is no better companion than an animal.
Rita Rudner

Love, Animal, Dogs

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

Success, Power, Hope

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.
George Bancroft

Beauty, Truth, Justice

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

Religion, Themselves, Lay

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

Friend, Book, Faithful

If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.
Loretta Young

Travel, Road, Enthusiasm

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.
Dee Dee Myers

Trust, Pain, Sacrifice

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.
Annie Leibovitz

Someone, Friend, Camera

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
Thomas Mann

Most important, though, I had to wait until I found the perfect traveling/eating/drinking/napping companion. And I did finally find him, two years ago - my Brazilian-born, French-speaking, wine-worshipping, tripe-consuming, uncomplaining traveler of a sweetheart.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Important, Him, Two

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