Ask my companion, if I'm a thief. [ Proverb ]
Hail mildly, pleasing solitude.
Companion of the wise and good,
But from whose holy, piercing eye,
The herds of fools and villains fly;
Oh! how I love with thee to walk,
And listen to thy whispered talk,
Which innocence and truth imparts,
And meets the most obdurate hearts. [ Thomson ]
Penny in pocket is a merry companion. [ Proverb ]
There is no companion like the penny. [ Proverb ]
A companion of fools shall be destroyed. [ Proverbs xiii. 20 ]
A merry companion is music in a journey. [ Proverb ]
A wicked companion invites us all to hell. [ Proverb ]
Gravity is the inseparable companion of pride. [ Goldsmith ]
Who swerves from innocence, who makes divorce
Of that serene companion - a good name.
Recovers not his loss; but walks with shame,
With doubt, with fear, and haply with remorse. [ Wordsworth ]
That I might live alone once with my gold!
Oh 't is a sweet companion I kind and true!
A man may trust it, when his father cheats him,
Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf.
That which makes all men false, is true itself. [ Jonson ]
Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue. [ Proverb ]
Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion. [ Chateaubriand ]
The genius, our companion, who rules our natal star, knows. [ Horace ]
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn. [ Proverb ]
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius. [ Isaac Disraeli ]
Make temperance thy companion, so shall health sit on thy brow. [ Dodsley ]
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work. [ Auerbach ]
There is no more agreeable companion than the woman who loves us. [ Bernardin de St. Pierre ]
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. [ Thoreau ]
The greatest friend of Truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. [ Caleb C. Colton ]
Beauty, like truth and justice, lives within us; like virtue, and like moral law, it is a companion of the soul. [ Bancroft ]
Open, candid, and generous, his heart was the constant companion of his hand, and his tongue the artless index of his mind. [ George Canning ]
He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter. [ Barrow ]
I think I am rather fond of silent people myself. I cannot bear to live with a person who feels compelled to talk because he is my companion. [ Disraeli ]
A very desperate habit; one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man's companion knows of his shortcomings is from his apology. [ Holmes ]
There never has been a nation that has not looked upon woman as the companion or the consolation of man, or as the sacred instrument of his life, and that has not honored her in those characters. [ A. de Musset ]
A companion that feasts the company with wit and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is the man; and let me tell you, good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. [ Izaak Walton ]
He that can keep handsomely within rules, and support the carriage of a companion to his mistress, is much more likely to prevail than he who lets her see the whole relish of his life depends upon her. If possible, therefore, divert your mistress rather than sigh for her. [ Steele ]