Companion

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

- Saint Augustine of Hippo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

- Joseph Addison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

- Coco Chanel Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We are starting to see the growth of companion devices that sit side-by-side with the desktop systems. It is looking more likely that this is where Linux will find a place.

- Dan Kusnetzky Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.

- Norman Borlaug Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness.

- Voltaire Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I am happy now, to recall that I was no only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him.

- John Philip Sousa Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.

- Barbara Tuchman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Rose has had adventures and she's a lot more confident as a companion. She's on a par with the Doctor, more so than last year. She's seen some incredible things, terrifying things. This time she's more experienced as a woman, as a companion she does everything with more conviction. There's stuff that she understands a bit more, so it's a natural progression.

- Billie Piper Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Every artist knows that at some point the gift he has will eventually be made manifest. He will, at some point, see the work he has done improve the lives of others around him. But I think every artist also realizes that time will go away from him, too. Success is a fickle companion.

- James Lee Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Soon after this, my companion in captivity, John Stewart, was killed by the savages, and the man that came with my brother returned home by himself.

- Daniel Boone Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I've got a wonderful companion (on returns) with Ryan Boehm, ... If they kick it to him, he can do some amazing things. If they kick it to me, hopefully I can break a few tackles here and there. Together we make a nice tandem.

- Ben Evans Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

. . . Imagination took the reins, and Reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

- Fanny Burney Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake.

- Douglass North Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Truth be told a lot of people are just going to be discovering the Jack's record when they hear this, so I kind of made it the winter companion to the summer album, ... Like the record, the song is about coming home, but just kind of coming home from a different circumstance.

- Andrew McMahon Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.

- Annie Leibovitz Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

- James Boswell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.

- Daniel Boone Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.

- Loretta Young Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.

- Edward Burnett Tylor Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A faithful companion is a sure anchor.

- Motto Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

President Bush is as interested as I am in having the greatest possible number of countries contributing valuably to the reconstruction of the area, each of us with our own responsibilities. ... I don't think that arrogance is the best companion.

- Jose Aznar Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.

- Henry David Thoreau Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others.

- Linda Blair Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

ROBBER, n. A candid man of affairs. It is related of Voltaire that one night he and some traveling companion lodged at a wayside inn. The surroundings were suggestive, and after supper they agreed to tell robber stories in turn. Once there was a Farmer-General of the Revenues. Saying nothing more, he was encouraged to continue. That, he said, is the story.

- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes