Top 55 Companions Quotes

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

If people start to buy the idea that machines are great companions for the elderly or for children, as they increasingly seem to do, we are really playing with fire.

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

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.

Repression and intimidation are not – and never should be – the acceptable companions of reform.

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

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

Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.

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.

Parents are one’s companions in life but not partakers of one’s karma.

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.

My ideal travel companions are my family.

It is easier when you like to work with your 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.

We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but we still regard them as necessary physical and spiritual companions. Technological nature can’t completely satisfy that yearning.

I got rounded up by the police in Quito as I didn’t have my passport with me. I was in prison for a night, which was pretty frightening, made more so when one of my male companions started crying.

I’ve stopped acting, but I don’t think I’ve finished using my voice. I could, and probably will, record the whole of Shakespeare’s sonnets. They live at the side of my bed and are my constant companions.

The writers of books are companions in one’s life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.

I am not a lonely person. I am happily married and not looking for companions on social media.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

My friends in college, several of whom are still my closest companions, would tell you that I was almost obsessed with becoming – fixated on creating – the future that I envisioned for myself: one of expanding to know my fullest self, which I have in no way achieved.

Kids are like glue: they can bond together, unlikely companions, even when there is little else left to maintain the connection.

I was a child who went about in a world of colors… My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.

There is a part of ‘Wonder Woman’ inside me and inside every woman, kind of that secret self that women share. We are all caretakers, giving birth, caring for our children and companions and loved ones.

I can’t picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions.

When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I was absolutely passionate about it and felt those paintings and those painters, whether they lived a few hundred years ago or were still alive, were somehow my companions.

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

Wolves are afraid of humans, whereas dogs are not. Wolves hunt game, whereas dogs scavenge human leftovers or eat what their human companions put out for dinner. Wolves are not great at following human commands, whereas dogs are brilliant at it.

Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.

I can go on for hours about how ‘Doctor Who’ is a portal fantasy writ across the stars, how the companions are falling down the rabbit hole over and over again forever, tumbling head over heels into mystery. Hours.

On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.

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

Many of us writers tour like a literary Bachman Turner Overdrive. We ain’t pretty, but we’re on the road. Many of us wish we were rock stars anyway. For my part, I live in my iPod. The musicians there are my constant companions on the road.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days – All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

One of the first thoughts I had, when doing early exoplanet research, was that Earth and its many companions seemed very different from the planetary systems we were detecting.

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.

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.

We know that we are often judged by the company we keep. We know how influential classmates, friends, and other peer groups can be. If any of our companions are prone to be unrighteous in their living, we are better off seeking new associations immediately.

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.

Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.

U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that’s a blot on our national copybook.

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

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

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.

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.

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.

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

Instead of expecting truck drivers and warehouse workers to rapidly retrain so they can compete with tireless, increasingly capable machines, let’s play to their human strengths and create opportunities for workers as companions and caregivers for our elders, our children, and our special-needs population.

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.

I owe my dogs much – more than I can say – but they are not my ‘companions’ – as if we voluntarily chose to hang out together but none of us has authority over the others. I bought and/or acquired them. I own them. I am profoundly responsible for their care and well being.

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.

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.

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