Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.
Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.
Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.
I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal companions. Yet I have but the sound of my scythe when it harvests, my whistling arrows, my galloping horse. Always the sound of the same wave eating away at the world
Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses, ships' forecastles, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far from a book.
As a teenage daughter hears her sweet mother plead unto the Lord that her daughter will be inspired in the selection of her companions, that she will prepare herself for a temple marriage, don't you believe that such a daughter will seek to honor this humble, pleading petition of her mother, whom she so dearly loves?
Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?
I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.
I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.
My dogs have been my most loyal friends and constant companions.
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
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.
Much certainly of the happiness and purity of our lives depends on our making a wise choice of our companions and friends. If our friends are badly chosen they will inevitably drag us down; if well they will raise us up.
The trick, my brethren and sisters is to enjoy the journey, traveling hand in hand, in sunshine and storm, as companions who love one another.
We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.
If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there.
I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.
Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.
Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.