(74 quotes found)
“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself, or even less, in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct; and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance”
Dan Greenburg
“The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility”
Charles Caleb Colton
“'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone”
Thomas More
“Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit”
Sir Walter Scott
“My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon.”
Rachel Carson
“I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.”
Bible
“Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.”
Blaise Pascal
“Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.”
Baltasar Gracian
“The rotten Apple spoils his Companion”
Benjamin Franklin