Companion Quotes - Page 25

• Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

  George Eliot

  Past, Joy, Sorrow

  George Eliot (1955). “The George Eliot Letters: 1878-1880”

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• A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.

  Samuel Johnson

  Marriage, Men, Wife

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.172

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• It is more reasonable to wish for reputation while it may be enjoyed, as Anacreon calls upon his companions to give him for present use the wine and garlands which they propose to bestow upon his tomb.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wine, Giving, Wish

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• Talent and generosity are needed to recognize talent and generosity in our companions; all is discord to an ear that has no idea of harmonies, but it needs a musical ear to delight in music.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Appreciation, Ideas, Generosity

  Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”

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• The barbarians of Germany had felt, and still dreaded, the arms of the young Caesar; his soldiers were the companions of his victory; the grateful provincials enjoyed the blessings of his reign; but the favourites, who had opposed his elevation, were offended by his virtues; and they justly considered the friend of the people as the enemy of the court.

  Edward Gibbon

  Grateful, Blessing, History

  Edward Gibbon (2008). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.396, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It doesn't matter where you are in your own personal development, nor has it mattered where you have been culturally; dogs simply don't pass judgment on you the way all of the rest of life and all your other companions seem to.

  Roger Caras

  Dog, Rest Of Life, Development

  Roger A. Caras (1982). “A Celebration of Dogs”, Crown

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• How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation.

  John Updike

  Hurt, Air, Strange

  John Updike (2003). “Rabbit, run ; Rabbit redux”

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• I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language. I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops... Eventually companion animals would be phased out.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Thinking, Pet

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• For a companion, I require one who will make an equal demand on me with my own genius. Such a one will always be rightly tolerant.It is suicide, and corrupts good manners, to welcome any less than this. I value and trust those who love and praise my aspiration rather than my performance. If you would not stop to look at me, but look whither I am looking, and farther, then my education could not dispense with your company.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Suicide, Ambition

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.212, Delphi Classics

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• I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Communication, Opposites, Luxury

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.220

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• The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Oratory, Speech, Foxes

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1994). “Papers”

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• Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And here the computer, a companion without emotional demands, offers a compromise. You can be a loner, but never alone. You can interact, but need never feel vulnerable to another person.

  Sherry Turkle

  Loneliness, Emotional, Self

  Sherry Turkle (1985). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, Touchstone Books

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• Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. "Tell the tailors," said he, "to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch." His companion's prayer is forgotten.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Prayer, Truth, Firsts

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.514, Delphi Classics

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• We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,--at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene; their sunny lives onthe sand, amid the beach-grass and bayberries, their companion a cow, their wealth a jag of driftwood or a few beach plums, and their music the surf and the peep of the beech-bird.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beach, Men, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.242, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Understanding, Goes On, Matter

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.399, Library of America

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• O fallen angel,
  the companion within me,
  whisper something holy
  before you pinch me
  into the grave.

  Anne Sexton

  Angel, Holy, Graves

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Civilization, Lasts

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.49, Penguin

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• The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in the order of nature; it is the only religion which presents woman to man as a companion; every other abandons her to him as a slave. To religion alone do European women owe their liberty.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Christian, Women, Order

  Jacques Henri Bernardin de SAINT PIERRE, Henry HUNTER (D.D.) (1830*). “Studies of Nature, translated from the French, ... Carefully abridged, with a copious index, by L. T. Rede”, p.489

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• Though we cannot totally change our nature, we may in great measure correct it by reflection and philosophy; and some philosophy is a very necessary companion in this world, where, even to the most fortunate, the chances are greatly against happiness.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Philosophy, Reflection, Thoughtful

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.333, Oxford University Press

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• Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to another, and, companions in labour and misfortune, have everything to lose by mutual recrimination and reproach. Let us be silent as to each other's weakness, helpful, tolerant, many, tender towards each other! Or, if we cannot feel tenderness, may we at least feel pity!

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Race, May, Weakness

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• It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

  Thomas More

  Friendship, Chance, Made

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• Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Laughing, Advice, Loud

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• Just when I most needed important conversation, a sniff of the man-wide world, that is, at least one brainy companion who could translate my friendly language into his tongue of undying carnal love, I was forced to lounge in our neighborhood park, surrounded by children.

  Grace Paley

  Children, Women, Important

  Grace Paley (2014). “The Collected Stories”, p.175, Macmillan

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• Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace.

  Saint Basil

  Heart, Lust, Grace

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• It's wrenching enough to lose the man who is your lover, your companion, your best friend, the father of your children, without losing yourself as well.

  Lynn Caine

  Children, Father, Men

  Lynn Caine (1974). “Widow”

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