Sayings about Companions
Choose your neighbors before your house and your companions before the road. ~ Arabian Proverbs
No road is too long in the company of a friend. ~ Japanese Proverbs
You can accompany a friend for a thousand miles but at some time you must take your leave. ~ Chinese Proverbs
The third person makes good company. ~ Dutch Proverbs
In the company of the blind, close your eyes. ~ Turkish Proverbs
Better alone than in bad company. ~ French Proverbs
Good company on a journey is worth a coach. ~ Scottish Proverbs
Try to be in good company, even when you are alone. ~ Hungarian Proverbs
Good company on the road is the shortest of short cuts. ~ Italian Proverbs
When you have no companion, look to your walking stick. ~ Albanian Proverbs
The dead are not seen in the company of the living. ~ African Proverb
In a choice between bad company and loneliness — the second is preferable. ~ Spanish Proverbs
Tell me the company you keep, and I’ll tell you what you are. ~ Dutch Proverb
Without the companionship even paradise would be boring. ~ Arabian Proverb
In the company of the good we become good. ~ Dutch Proverb
We let him in; but then he brought his donkey along, too! ~ Egyptian Proverbs
Cheerful company shortens the journey. ~ German Proverbs
Quotations about Companions
Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses. ~ Francis Bacon
When we are away from home, our only constant companion is our self. ~ Rory MacLean
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone. ~ Walter Scott
We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way. ~ Frank Moore Colby
We are in the same boat. ~ Pope Clement I
Valued companionships begin with a personal commitment to be an exemplary companion. ~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
Two i’s company, three i’s trumpery. ~ Mrs. Parr
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. ~ Joseph Addison
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them – the senses, intelligent companions, and books. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art. ~ Cervantes
People are known by the company they keep. Companies are known by the people they keep. ~ Author Unknown
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. ~ Samuel Butler
Patience is the companion of wisdom. ~ Saint Augustine
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
No possession is gratifying without a companion. ~ Seneca
No man can be provident of his time who is not prudent in the choice of his company. ~ Jeremy Taylor
No company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Never make a companion equal to a brother. ~ Hesiod
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. ~ Baltasar Gracian
My ideal travel companions are my family. ~ Pharrell Williams
More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery. ~ Thomas Traherne
Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle. ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all. ~ Christopher Marlowe
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.~ Rainer Marie Rilke
I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish. ~ John Burnside
I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself. ~ Kangana Ranaut
I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice. ~ Ezra Cornell
Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. ~ Samuel Smiles
He who must needs have company, must needs have sometimes bad company. ~ Sir Thomas Browne
He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter. ~ Isaac Barrow
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. ~ Paul Valery
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. ~ Pythagoras
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius. ~ Isaac D’Israeli
Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing. ~ Franz Liszt
Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. ~ William Butler Yeats
Bride and groom are not just two contracting parties but two loving and beloved companions, joined in establishing a home that will be nothing less than a source of immortality. ~ Meir Soloveichik
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims. ~ George Henry Lewes
Better your room than your company. ~ Simon Forman
Be cautious with whom you associate, and never give your company or your confidence to persons of whose good principles you are not certain. ~ William Hart Coleridge
Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags. ~ D. A. Pennebaker
An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. ~ Syrus
A merry companion is as good as a wagon. ~ John Lyly
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself. ~ James Boswell
External link : A Year of Spiritual Companionship: 52 Weeks of Wisdom for a Life of Gratitude, Balance and Happiness. ~ Book Preview
